Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Peter 3:7
But the heavens and the earth, that are now — Since the flood. Are reserved unto fire at the day wherein God will judge the world, and punish the ungodly with everlasting destruction.
But the heavens and the earth, that are now — Since the flood. Are reserved unto fire at the day wherein God will judge the world, and punish the ungodly with everlasting destruction.
Verse 7. _BUT THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, WHICH ARE NOW_] The present earth and its atmosphere, which are liable to the same destruction, because the same _means_ still exist, (for there is still _wat...
BUT THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WHICH ARE NOW - As they now exist. There is no difficulty here respecting what is meant by the word “earth,” but it is not so easy to determine precisely how much is incl...
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)...
KEPT IN STORE. treasured up. UNTO. for. AGAINST. unto. App-104. THE. a. judgment. App-177. PERDITION. See John 17:12. UNGODLY. See 1 Peter 4:18. MEN. App-123....
_but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word_ Some of the better MSS. give BY HIS WORD, but the received reading rests on sufficient authority. _are kept in store, reserved unto fir...
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...
ΟἹ ΔῈ ΝΥ͂Ν ΟΥ̓ΡΑΝΟΊ. He seems to speak of the Flood as if it had destroyed heaven and earth (in the Book of Enoch hyperbolical language of that kind is used of the Flood lxxxiii. 3, in a vision “the h...
ΝΎΝ (G3568) теперь, в настоящем, ΤΕΘΗΣΑΥΡΙΣΜΈΝΟΙ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΘΗΣΑΥΡΊΖΩ (G2343) накапливать, сохранять, беречь. Суть метафоры: "откладывать для" "предназначать для" (Mayor). _Perf._ подчерк...
DISCOURSE: 2426 THE DAY OF JUDGMENT 2 Peter 3:7. _The day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men_. A FUTURE state of rewards and punishments is, in theory, universally acknowledged; but, in practic...
BUT THE HEAVENS, &C.— Not only the ancient Jews, but the Stoics, and other philosophers among the Heathens, held that the world was to be destroyed by fire. It was also intimated by some, both of the...
2 PETER 3:7 BUT THE HEAVENS THAT NOW ARE, AND THE EARTH, BY THE SAME WORD HAVE BEEN STORED UP FOR FIRE, BEING RESERVED AGAINST THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND DESTRUCTION OF UNGODLY MEN. _Expanded Translatio...
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. (Compare , end.) WHICH ARE NOW - `the...
VERSE 7. BUT THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WHICH ARE NOW. The world as it has existed since the flood by the word of the living God the same Word which destroyed the old world is now kept reserved for de...
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...
3:7 present (e-3) Lit. 'the now heavens,' in contrast to the 'then world,' ver. 6....
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...
BY THE SAME WORD. — Or, as some first-rate authorities read, _by His word._ The sense in either case is that the universe is preserved for judgment by the same power that created it. “His word” here d...
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...
_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...
πυρὶ τηρούμενοι. According to the Jewish conception of the rainbow promise, water would not again be the destructive agency. The heaven and the earth are reserved for destruction by fire. τεθησαυρισμέ...
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...
(6) But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. (6) Thirdly, he pronounces that it w...
"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...
7._But the heavens and the earth which are now. _He does not infer this as the consequence; for his purpose was no other than to dissipate the craftiness of scoffers respecting the perpetual state of...
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 THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WHICH ARE NOW,.... In being, in distinction from, and opposition to the heavens that were of old, and the earth standing in and out of the water, and the world that then...
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. Ver. 7. _Reserved unto fire_] The old wo...
_But_ Though the destruction of the old world by water shows that the present world may be destroyed, I do not say it will be destroyed by water. No: _the heavens and the earth, which are now_ This wh...
THE SAME WORD; that command or power of God by which the world was created. Verse 2 Peter 3:5; GENESIS 1:1-10. The same power of God which created the world keeps it in being, and will keep it till th...
The answer of St. Peter, showing the certainty of the Lord's return:...
BUT THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WHICH ARE NOW BY THE SAME WORD ARE KEPT IN STORE, RESERVED UNTO FIRE AGAINST THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND PERDITION OF UNGODLY MEN....
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 3:7 ‘But the present heavens and earth by His word are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.'_ ‘PRESENT HEAVENS AND EARTH' -‘Present'-In contr...
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...
THE HEAVENS; the ethereal, or starry heaven, as well as aerial; for, 2 PETER 3:10,12, he distinguisheth the heavens that are to perish by fire, from the elements; and 2 PETER 3:13, he opposeth a new h...
Justin on the Sole Government of God Then further concerning Him, that He alone is powerful, both to institute judgment on the deeds performed in life, and on the ignorance of the Deity [displayed by...
2 Peter 3:7 But G1161 heavens G3772 and G2532 earth G1093 now G3568 preserved G2343 (G5772) same G846 word...
‘But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.' And he wants all to realise tha...
2 Peter 3:7. BUT THE HEAVENS WHICH NOW ARE AND THE EARTH BY THE SAME WORD HAVE BEEN STORED UP FOR FIRE, BEING RESERVED UNTO THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND DESTRUCTION OF THE UNGODLY MEN. The ‘which now are'...
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...
THAT NOW ARE (νυν). "The now heavens" over against "the then world" (ο τοτε κοσμος verse 2 Peter 3:6).BY THE SAME WORD (τω αυτω λογω). Instrumental case again referring to λογω in verse 2 Peter 3...
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...
THAT NOW EXIST. "But though the destruction of the old world shows that the present world is capable of being destroyed, I do not say that it will be again destroyed by water. The same word of God who...
_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 3:7 STORED UP FOR FIRE. The day of judgment is coming for scoffers. ⇐...
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...
1 John 4:17; 1 Timothy 6:9; 2 Peter 2:9; 2 Peter 3:10; 2 Thessaloni
The heavens - which now are [ο ι ν υ ν ο υ ρ α ν ο ι]. A construction similar to the then world (ver. 6). The now heavens, or the present heavens. Kept in store [τ ε θ η σ α υ ρ ι σ μ ε ν ο ι]. Rev.,...
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...
Does perdition mean the unsaved will be annihilated? (See comments on 2 Thessalonians 1:9)...