Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Peter 3:12
Hastening on — As it were by your earnest desires and fervent prayers. The coming of the day of God — Many myriads of days he grants to men: one, the last, is the day of God himself.
Hastening on — As it were by your earnest desires and fervent prayers. The coming of the day of God — Many myriads of days he grants to men: one, the last, is the day of God himself.
Verse 12. _THE HEAVENS BEING ON FIRE_] 2 Peter 3:10. It was an ancient opinion among the heathens that the earth should be burnt up with fire; so OVID, _Met_., lib. i. v. 256. _Esse quoque in fatis r...
LOOKING FOR - Not knowing when this may occur, the mind should be in that state which constitutes “expectation;” that is, a belief that it will occur, and a condition of mind in which we would not be...
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)...
Since these things are going to be dissolved like that, what kind of people ought you to be, living a life of constant holiness and true piety, you who are eagerly awaiting and doing your best to hast...
LOOKING FOR. App-133. See Luke 3:15 (be in expectation). HASTING UNTO. hastening. Greek. _speudo._ Elsewhere intransitive. Luke 19:5.Acts 22:18. &c. Man can neither hinder nor advance the kingdom of G...
_looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God_ The English versions follow the Vulgate and Luther in this rendering. It is doubtful, however, whether the Greek verb for "hasten," followed...
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...
ΣΠΕΎΔΟΝΤΑΣ. The thought is well compared with Peter’s words in Acts 3:19. Repent … ὅπως ἂν ἔλθωσιν καιροὶ�. As sins (cf. 2 Peter 3:9) delay the coming, so righteousness will accelerate it. ΘΕΟΥ͂ ἩΜΈΡΑ...
ΠΡΟΣΔΟΚΏΝΤΑΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΠΡΟΣΔΟΚΈΩ (G4328) ждать с нетерпением, смотреть вперед, ΣΠΕΎΔΟΝΤΑΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΣΠΕΎΔΩ (G4692) ускорять, убыстрять, желать, стремиться к (Mayor; Kelly; B...
DISCOURSE: 2428 THE DAY OF JUDGMENT 2 Peter 3:10. The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with f...
2 PETER 3:11-12 SEEING THAT THESE THINGS ARE THUS ALL TO BE DISSOLVED, WHAT MANNER OF PERSONS OUGHT YE TO BE IN ALL HOLY LIVING AND GODLINESS, LOOKING FOR AND EARNESTLY DESIRING THE COMING OF THE DAY...
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? HASTING UNTO - with the utmost eagerne...
VERSE 12. LOOKING FOR AND HASTING. We should act here as if we were expecting and earnestly desiring the coming of that day appointed of God for the burning up of the heavens and the earth, when the...
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...
3:12 [the] (h-25) The absence of the article is poetic here, 'because of which inflamed heavens shall be dissolved, and burning elements shall melt.'...
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...
HASTING UNTO] RV 'earnestly desiring,' RM 'hastening.' It is written in the Talmud, 'If Jews exercised penitence for one day, Messiah would straightway come.' WHEREIN] RV 'by reason of which.' The Day...
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...
Peter did not want to frighten Christians. He repeated here what he spoke about in verse 10. Christians should eagerly expect the day when Jesus returns to this world. Then they will encourage that da...
HASTING UNTO. — There is no “unto” in the Greek. The margin is probably right, _hasting the coming_ — _i.e.,_ hastening Christ’s coming by holy lives, by helping to make the Gospel known to all nation...
CHAPTER 29 "WHAT MANNER OF PERSONS OUGHT YE TO BE?" 2 Peter 3:10 THE Apostle, ever earnest to put the brethren in mind of the things they had heard or read, never fails to follow his own precept. Hi...
_The ethical value of the Parousia expectation_. “Seeing then that all these things are to be dissolved, how great an effect it ought to exercise on our whole moral and religious life, as we look forw...
σπεύδοντας. Either (1) “earnestly desiring,” _cf._ Isaiah 16:5, σπεύδων δικαιοσύνην, or (2) preferably, “hastening the coming”. “The Church may be said to bring the day nearer when it prays, ‘Thy king...
“HOLY LIVING AND GODLINESS” 2 Peter 3:10 How quickly the great European convulsion broke upon the world in the summer of 1914! Who expected such a sudden burst of the great storm! We are evidently ne...
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,...
THE "DAY OF THE LORD" There are numerous references to the "day of the Lord" in the New Testament (1 Corinthians 1:8; 1 Peter 1:6; 1 Thessalonians 5:2;...
Looking for and (e) hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? (e) He requires patience from us, y...
"Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, (12) Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, whe...
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...
_HASTING THE DAY_ ‘Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.’ 2 Peter 3:12 What...
12_Looking for and hasting unto, _or, _waiting for by hastening_; so I render the words, though they are two participles; for what we had before separately he gathers now into one sentence, that is, t...
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...
LOOKING FOR AND HASTING UNTO THE COMING OF THE DAY OF GOD,.... The same with the day of the Lord, 2 Peter 3:10, and so the Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions here read; and it intends the day of Christ...
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Ver. 12. _Looking for_] As Sisera's mot...
_Seeing then that all these things_ Which our eyes behold; _shall be dissolved_ And we shall be spectators of their dissolution, being raised from the dead before, or at the time of, its taking place;...
HASTING UNTO; preparing for and earnestly desiring the salvation which will be given to God's people....
The attitude of the Christians:...
LOOKING FOR, AND HASTING UNTO, THE COMING OF THE DAY OF GOD, WHEREIN THE HEAVENS, BEING ON FIRE, SHALL BE DISSOLVED AND THE ELEMENTS SHALL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT?...
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...
HASTING UNTO THE COMING: Or, hasting the coming...
_ 2 Peter 3:12 ‘looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, on account of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat!'_ ‘LOOKING FOR' -Pre...
11-18 From the doctrine of Christ's second coming, we are exhorted to purity and godliness. This is the effect of real knowledge. Very exact and universal holiness is enjoined, not resting in any low...
LOOKING FOR; patiently waiting for, and expecting. AND HASTING UNTO; by fervent desire of it, and diligent preparation for it. THE COMING OF THE DAY OF GOD; the day of the Lord, 2 PETER 3:10....
Dubious Hippolytus Fragments For the river of fire shall come forth in fury like an angry sea, and shall burn up mountains and hills, and shall make the sea vanish, and shall dissolve the atmosphere...
2 Peter 3:12 for G4328 (G5723) and G2532 hastening G4692 (G5723) coming G3952 day G2250 God G2316 which...
‘Looking for and hastening (or ‘earnestly desiring') the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?' They...
THE REASON FOR DELAY AND THE FINAL FULFILMENT (2 PETER 3:8)....
2 Peter 3:12. LOOKING FOR AND HASTENING THE COMING OF THE DAY OF GOD. This is the only instance of the ‘day' being designated ‘the day of _God.'_ The ‘looking for' is expressed by the term which is re...
The closing verses are devoted to the pressing of certain practical injunctions, which are closely connected with the Christian view of the end. These are given in a strain as tender as it is solemn a...
LOOKING FOR (προσδοκωντας). Present active participle of προσδοκαω (Matthew 11:3) agreeing in case (accusative plural) with υμας.EARNESTLY DESIRING (σπευδοντας). Present active participle, accusat...
2 Peter 3:12 From the Bibles that have marginal readings, it will appear that these words admit of a different construction: "Looking for and _hasting the coming_of the day of God." As I understand t...
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...
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...
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...
AS YOU WAIT. See Philippians 3:20 and note. TO MAKE IT COME SOON. Compare note on 1 Corinthians 16:22. This is John's _last-hour situation_ (1 John 2:18 and note). Christians are to have a sense of u
_Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved._ IMMORTALITY AND SCIENCE It is a singular fact that these words have far more probability of truth than they had a generation ago. Then, the sta...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 3:12 HASTENING THE COMING OF THE DAY OF GOD suggests that, by living holy lives, Christians can actually affect the time of the Lord’s return. That does not mean, of course, th...
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 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:8; 2 Peter 3:10; Isaiah 2:1;...
Looking for [π ρ ο σ δ ο κ ω ν τ α ς]. The same verb as in Luke 1:21, of waiting for Zacharias. Cornelius waited (Acts 10:24); the cripple expecting to receive something (Acts 3:5). Hasting unto [σ π...
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...
Having exhorted persons by holiness to prepare for Christ's coming to judgment in the foregoing vcerse, he now directs them to expect and look for it, to desire and long after it, LOOKING FOR AND HAST...