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2 Peter 3:8
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.
Verse 8. _BE NOT IGNORANT_] Though _they_ are wilfully ignorant, neglect not _ye_ the means of instruction. _ONE DAY_ IS _WITH THE LORD AS A THOUSAND YEARS_] That is: All time is as nothing before h...
BUT, BELOVED, BE NOT IGNORANT OF THIS ONE THING, THAT ONE DAY IS WITH THE LORD AS A THOUSAND YEARS - This 2 Peter 3:8 is the second consideration by which the apostle meets the objection of scoffers a...
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)...
Moreover the Lord is not really slow to fulfil His promise; He does not reckon time as men reckon. His seeming slowness is not the manifestation of His impotence, but of His long-suffering love (_cf._...
THE PRINCIPLES OF PREACHING (2 Peter 3:1-2)...
Beloved, you must not shut your eyes to this one fact that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. It is not that God is dilatory in fulfilling his promise, as so...
BE NOT, &C. Literally let not this one thing be hidden (as 2 Peter 3:6) from you. WITH. App-104. LORD. App-98....
_But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing_ Literally, the construction being the same as in 2 Peter 3:5, LET NOT THIS ONE THING BE HIDDEN FROM YOU. _that one day is with the Lord as a thousand...
ὙΜΑ͂Σ, emphatic, opposed to αὐτούς in 2 Peter 3:5. Not only are the mockers mistaken as to the immutability of the world: they forget also (but you must not) that time is nothing in God’s sight. He d...
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...
ΛΑΝΘΑΝΈΤΩ _praes. imper. act. 3 pers. sing. от_ ΛΑΝΘΆΝΩ (G2990) быть незаметным (_см._ 2 Peter 3:5). ΈΤ _пот. pl. от_ ΈΤΟΣ (G2094) год. Это цитата из Psalms 90:4. Суть в том, что для Бога долгий пери...
DISCOURSE: 2427 GOD’S FORBEARANCE 2 Peter 3:8. _Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack c...
ONE DAY IS WITH THE LORD, &C.— "I have taken notice, that the scoffers are voluntarily ignorant of, or inattentive to these things. But as to the _distance of time,_ with which they insult you, be not...
2 PETER 3:8-9 BUT FORGET NOT THIS ONE THING, BELOVED, THAT ONE DAY IS WITH THE LORD AS A THOUSAND YEARS, AND A THOUSAND YEARS AS ONE DAY. THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE, AS SOME COUNT SL...
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. BE NOT IGNORANT - as those scoffers (). Besides the refutation (2...
VERSE 8. BUT, BELOVED, BE NOT IGNORANT OF THIS ONE THING. The scoffers urge the stability of the earth because of God's delay in destroying it. When you reflect that God has eternity in which to exec...
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...
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...
BE NOT IGNORANT] RV 'forget not': cp. 2 Peter 3:5. Another characteristic repetition. THAT ONE DAY, etc.] from Psalms 90:4....
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...
In verse 5, the false teachers did not remember what God had done in the past. But in verse 8, Peter did not want his ‘dear friends’ to forget what God had done. The *Lord’s time is not the same as ti...
_Second Answer_ to the sceptical argument: Time is the condition of man’s thought and action, but not of God’s. His thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor His ways as our ways; what seems delay to us i...
CHAPTER 28 THE LORD IS NOT SLACK 2 Peter 3:8 "ALL things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation," said the mockers. It was foolish, therefore, to believe in, or to think of a judgm...
μία ἡμέρα, κ. τ. λ. _Cf._ Psalms 40:4. The literal application of this statement to the story of creation, employed by patristic writers, in which one day is interpreted as 1000 years, and therefore t...
_A further argument to explain the apparent delay_. “One thing beloved, you must not forget. The sense of the duration of time in the Divine Mind is not the same as in the human. One day is the same t...
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...
(7) But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (7) The taking away of an objection: in that he seems to des...
"But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (9) The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men coun...
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...
8._But be not ignorant of this one thing. _He now turns to speak to the godly; and he reminds them that when the coming of Christ is the subject, they were to raise upwards their eyes, for by so doing...
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...
BUT, BELOVED, BE NOT IGNORANT OF THIS ONE THING,.... Here the apostle addresses the saints he writes unto, and for whom he had a tender affection and regard, and for whose welfare he was concerned, le...
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day _is_ with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. Ver. 8. _One day is with the Lord, &c._] _Nullum tempus occurrit...
_Be not ye ignorant_ Whatever they are; _of this one thing_ Which casts much light on the point in hand; _that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day_ This is an...
A THOUSAND YEARS AS ONE DAY; in comparison with eternity, and as to the certainty of what God has declared. What he has determined to accomplish a thousand years hence, is just as sure as if he had de...
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...
_ 2 Peter 3:8 ‘But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as. thousand years, and. thousand years as one day.'_ ‘BUT DO NOT LET THIS ONE FACT ESCAPE YOUR N...
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...
BE NOT IGNORANT OF THIS ONE THING; i.e. be sure of it: the same word is here used as 2 PETER 3:5; and so he cautions them against the ignorance of scoffers, and to prevent it, would have them certainl...
Epistle of Barnabas will be as a thousand years."[218] Dialogue of Justin For as Adam was told that in the day he ate of the tree he would die, we know that he did not complete a thousand years. We...
2 Peter 3:8 But G1161 beloved G27 do G2990 not G3361 G5209 forget G2990 (G5720) one G1520 thing...
THE REASON FOR DELAY AND THE FINAL FULFILMENT (2 PETER 3:8)....
‘But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.' Note again the use of ‘beloved'. His heart yearns for these saints of God...
2 Peter 3:8. BUT LET NOT THIS ONE THING ESCAPE YOU, BELOVED; the mode of expression which has been already used in reference to the mockers in 2 Peter 3:5. The writer passes now from the idea of the s...
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...
FORGET NOT THIS ONE THING (εν τουτο μη λανθανετω υμας). Rather, "let not this one thing escape you." For λανθανετω (present active imperative of λανθανω) see verse 2 Peter 3:5. The "one thing" (εν)...
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...
BUT DO NOT FORGET. "Do not listen to those who say the fact that Christ has not come yet proves he will not come at all. God is not limited by time as we are, and both one day and a thousand years are...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 3:8 ANY SHOULD PERISH. See note on 1 Tim. 2:4. Christians long for Christ’s return and the defeat of all evil. Yet while the present period of history lasts, people may still t...
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...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 2 Peter 3:8. ONE DAY, etc.—The time-element gave opportunity to the scoffers. The time-measures of God must not be thought of as like those of men. It is to misrepresen...
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...
1 Corinthians 10:1; 1 Corinthians 12:1; Psalms 90:4; Romans 11:25...
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...
But be not ye ignorant — Whatever they are. Of this one thing — Which casts much light on the point in hand. That one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day — Moses...
Our apostle here answers the cavil and objection of the fore-mentioned scoffers, namely, That if Christ intends to come to judgment, why does he so long defer his coming? To this our apostle replies,...