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2 Peter 3:5
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water;
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water;
Verse 5. _FOR THIS THEY WILLINGLY ARE IGNORANT OF_] They shut their eyes against the light, and refuse all evidence; what does not answer their purpose _they will not know_. And the apostle refers to...
FOR THIS THEY WILLINGLY ARE IGNORANT OF - Λαιθάνει γὰρ αὐτοὺς τοῦτο θέλοντας Laithanei gar autous touto thelontas. There is some considerable variety in the translation of this passage. In our c...
III. THE FUTURE OF THE EARTH AND THE CONCLUSION CHAPTER 3 _ 1. Mocking at the Lord's coming (2 Peter 3:1)_ 2. The future of the earth (2 Peter 3:8) 3. EXHORTATION AND CONCLUSION (2 PETER 3:11)...
A further characteristic of the false teachers was the denial of the Second Advent (their coming is again spoken of as in the future; _cf._ 2 Peter 2:1 and 2 Peter 3:17). Their scepticism is based, pa...
THE PRINCIPLES OF PREACHING (2 Peter 3:1-2)...
What they wilfully fail to see is that long ago the heavens were created and the earth was composed out of water and through water; and through these waters the ancient world perished, when it was ove...
THIS, &C. Literally this is hid from (Greek. _lanthano._ See Acts 26:26) them willing (App-102.) it. WORD. App-121. GOD. App-98. HEAVENS. Plural See Matthew 6:9; Matthew 6:10. of old
_For this they willingly are ignorant of_ More accurately, FOR THIS IS HID FROM THEM BY THEIR OWN WILL. The English phrase "they ignore" exactly expresses the state of mind of which the Apostle speaks...
NOTE ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD BY FIRE The passage 2 Peter 3:5-13 is the only one in the New Testament which speaks of the destruction of the world by fire. The coming of Christ, the Resurrectio...
ὍΤΙ ΟΥ̓ΡΑΝΟῚ ἯΣΑΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. There were of old heavens and an earth, (the latter) having its being out of water (it rose out of the water over which the Spirit brooded) and διʼ ὕδατος. This difficult expr...
ΛΑΝΘΆΝΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΝΘΆΝΩ (G2990) быть незаметным, быть сокрытым; "они закрывают глаза на тот факт, что..." (Mayor; RWP; Kelly), ΘΈΛΟΝΤΑΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΘΈΛΩ (G2309) желать, хоте...
FOR THIS THEY WILLINGLY ARE IGNORANT OF— It is probable, that these scoffers had once been Jews, and afterwards professed Christians; and consequently their ignorance in this point must needs have bee...
2 PETER 3:5-6 FOR THIS DAY THEY WILFULLY FORGET, THAT THERE WERE HEAVENS FROM OF OLD, AND AN EARTH COMPACTED OUT OF WATER AND AMIDST WATER, BY THE WORD OF GOD; BY WHICH MEANS THE WORLD THAT THEN WAS,...
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Refutation of their scoffing from Scripture history...
VERSE 5. FOR THIS THEY ARE WILLINGLY IGNORANT OF. In thus speaking they exhibit a willing ignorance of God's word, and of his dealing with the world in the past. They claim for the earth stability an...
1 It is the special function of the Circumcision epistles to reaffirm and enforce the ancient prophetc Scriptures and the words of our Lord before His death and ascension. This is notably lacking in P...
WILLINGLY ARE IGNORANT OF] RV 'wilfully forget.' That by THE WORD OF GOD, etc.] RM 'that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and through water, by the word of God' (cp....
ANTIDOTE AGAINST DESPISING THE DAY OF THE LORD. EXHORTATION. DOXOLOGY 2 Peter 3 may be subdivided into three parts: (_a_) 2 Peter 3:1. 'This Second Epistle is a reminder of what prophets and apostles...
JESUS WILL RETURN PETER’S SECOND LETTER _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 3 JESUS WILL RETURN AND GOD’S JUDGEMENT WILL HAPPEN V1 Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. Both le...
The false teachers refused to remember that God *judged the world. God’s word created the sky. He commanded the earth to appear out of the water (Genesis 1:9-10). Every plant and animal needs water to...
FOR THIS THEY WILLINGLY ARE IGNORANT OF. — Literally, _For this escapes their notice of their own will._ They voluntarily blind their eyes to this fact — at once an explanation of their argument, and...
CHAPTER 27 JUDGMENT TO COME 2 Peter 3:5 "THE world lasts on" (διαμενει) "through all time," say the scoffers, "just as it was at the Creation. There has been no change; there will be none." But out...
λανθάνει γὰρ αὐτοὺς τοῦτο. “This escapes their notice.” τοῦτο is nominative. θέλοντας “wilfully” “of their own purpose”. ἔκπαλαι (_cf._ note, 2 Peter 2:3): “originally,” _i.e._ before the creation of...
_The first part of the argument against the scoffers_. “It is not true that the course of the world is unchanging. They have wilfully forgotten that the heavens existed originally, and the earth was f...
LONGSUFFERING DELAY 2 Peter 3:1 Peter does not hesitate to place the commandments of himself and the other Apostles of Jesus on a level with the words _which were spoken before by the holy prophets_,...
False teaching which denies the power of Christ issues in false thinking which denies the Coming of Christ. There will be mockers who will walk in lust and make sport of the great hope of the Church,...
ANSWERING THE SCOFFERS The scoffers had ignored the creation. It was a perfect proof that things had not always been the same. Instead, God had spoken and the waters were separated to that above and b...
(4) For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the (b) earth standing out of the water and in the water: (4) He sets against them the creation of he...
For this they are wilfully ignorant of. The ignorance of these unbelievers is wilful and inexcusable, when they question the existence of a Supreme Being, of a future state, wherein God will reward th...
"This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: (2) That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophet...
In the second Epistle of Peter (and here I must be brief, because of the hour; and I may be brief because Jude will afford us a further consideration of it) we have the same substantial truth of God's...
5._For this they willingly are ignorant of. _By one argument only he confutes the scoff of the ungodly, even by this, that the world once perished by a deluge of waters, when yet it consisted of water...
In the last Chapter, as we have said, it is materialism: trust in the stability of that which can be seen, in contrast with trust in the word of God which teaches us to look for the coming of Jesus, t...
FOR THIS THEY WILLINGLY ARE IGNORANT OF,.... Namely, what follows; for as these men were such as had professed Christianity, and had the advantage of revelation, and had the opportunity of reading the...
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Ver. 5. _Willingly ignorant of_] A carnal heart is...
_Where is the promise of his coming_ To raise the dead, judge mankind, and destroy the earth? We see no sign of any such thing. The promise of Christ's coming we have Matthew 15:27, _The Son of man sh...
STANDING OUT OF THE WATER AND IN THE WATER; rather, consisting out of water and by water. the reference is to the chaotic watery mass out of which the earth was formed, Genesis 1:2. At the command of...
This chapter now shows that the government of God will bring everything to a proper conclusion: every evil principle will be judged unsparingly, and those also who embrace such evil; and out of this j...
STANDING: _ Gr._ consisting...
_ 2 Peter 3:5 ‘For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,'_ ‘FOR WHEN THEY MAINTAIN...
5-10 Had these scoffers considered the dreadful vengeance with which God swept away a whole world of ungodly men at once, surely they would not have scoffed at his threatening an equally terrible jud...
FOR THIS THEY WILLINGLY ARE IGNORANT OF; they will not know what they ought to know, and, if they would search the Scripture, might know. THAT BY THE WORD OF GOD; the command of God, or _word of his p...
Shepherd of Hermas Vision First the heavens and the mountains,[32] A Strain of Sodom The future end.[3] 2 Clement For if we renounce these indulgences and conquer the soul by not fulfilling its w...
2 Peter 3:5 For G1063 this G5124 they G846 willfully G2309 (G5723) forget G2990 (G5719) that G3754 word...
‘For this they wilfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth having been brought together out of water and amidst water, by the word of God. By which means the world that then was...
2 Peter 3:5. FOR THIS ESCAPES THEM OF THEIR OWN WILL. So may the sentence be translated literally. The rendering of the A. V., ‘for this they willingly are ignorant of,' is somewhat weak. Better is th...
It has been supposed by some that the opening words of this third chapter indicate the beginning of a new Epistle. What we have, however, is only the beginning of a new division of the same Epistle. T...
FOR THIS THEY WILFULLY FORGET (λανθανε γαρ αυτους τουτο θελοντας). Literally, "for this escapes them being willing." See this use of λανθανω (old verb, to escape notice of, to be hidden from) in Ac...
2 Peter 3:1. _This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up pour pure minds by way of remembrance: that ye may be mindful of the words which. were spoken before by the ho...
2 Peter 3:1. _This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:_ The purest minds need stirring up at times. It would be a great pity...
CONTENTS: Return of the Lord and the Day of Jehovah. Christ's return to be generally denied. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Peter. CONCLUSION: The general denial that will be made in the last days of the...
Grotius, with his usual tartness, contends that this is the beginning of a new epistle by Simon, but not Simon Peter. But if so, why did Peter leave the words at the end of the second chapter unclosed...
THEY PURPOSELY IGNORE. "They say the stability of the universe disproves both Creation and any coming destruction. But in saying this they must purposely ignore the facts which they already know! Our...
_This they willingly are ignorant of._ WILLING IGNORANCE Nelson, at St. Vincent, putting the telescope to his blind eye, and swearing that he could not see the signal to cease firing, affords an apt...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 3:4 Scoffers (v. 2 Peter 3:3) will question the biblical PROMISE of the Lord’s COMING....
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 3:1 The Day of the Lord Will Surely Come. Peter turns his attention to explaining the Lord’s promised return. Apparently he is responding to a disagreement in the church concer...
THE UNFULFILLED PROMISE OF THE COMING _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE apostle now deals with those who made the delay of the Lord’s coming, and the disappointment consequently felt by many Christ...
EXPOSITION 2 PETER 3:1 THIS SECOND EPISTLE, BELOVED, I NOW WRITE UNTO YOU; literally, _this Epistle already a second one I write unto you. _The ἤδη ("already") implies that the interval between th...
Now Peter said this second epistle, Beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the ho...
2 Thessalonians 2:10; Colossians 1:17; Genesis 1:6; Genesis 1:9;...
This they willingly are ignorant of [λ α ν θ α ν ε ι α υ τ ο υ ς τ ο υ τ ο θ ε λ ο ν τ α ς]. Lit., this escapes them of their own will. Rev., this they wilfully forget. The heavens were. But the Gree...
INEXCUSABLE IGNORANCE 2 Peter 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We like the way this chapter opens. The Apostle says, "This Second Epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure min...
For this they are willingly ignorant of — They do not care to know or consider. That by the almighty word of God — Which bounds the duration of all things, so that it cannot be either longer or shorte...
These scoffers had declared in the former verse, that the world was the same it was from the beginning; that nature always had, and therefore ever would keep its course. But, says the apostle here, th...