Verse 7. And delivered just Lot.
In the destruction of the cities God saved Lot. Keep before your minds that it is the wicked only that are punished. The righteous are always preserved. This is God's way punish the wicked and save the righteous.
Verse 7. _VEXED WITH THE FILTHY CONVERSATION_] Καταπονουμενον ὑπο της των αθεσμων εν ασελγεια αναστροφης· _Being exceedingly_ _pained with the unclean conduct of those lawless persons_. What this was...
AND DELIVERED JUST LOT - Genesis 19:16. This case is incidentally referred to, to show that God makes a distinction between the righteous and the wicked; and that while the latter will be destroyed, t...
II. THE EVIL TO COME THROUGH FALSE TEACHERS CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The source of the evil (2 Peter 2:1)_ 2. The lessons from the past. (2 Peter 2:4) 3. The description of the apostates (2 Peter 2:11)...
As there were false prophets in Israel, so there will arise false teachers among the faithful. (Writing from the assumed standpoint of the apostolic age, he projects their coming into the future; in 2...
FALSE PROPHETS (2 Peter 2:1) _ 2:1 There were times when false prophets arose among the people, even as amongst you too there will be false teachers, men who will insidiously introduce destructive he...
If God did not spare even angels who had sinned, but condemned them to the lowest hell and committed them to the pits of darkness, where they remain kept for judgment; if he did not spare the ancient...
DELIVERED. rescued. As in 2 Corinthians 1:10. JUST. App-191. LOT. As believing Jehovah, Lot was justified. We do not know all his life, and we do not know all implied by the rest of this verse and b...
_vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked_ More accurately, VEXED WITH THE MODE OF LIFE (or CONDUCT) OF THE LAWLESS ONES IN LASCIVIOUSNESS. On "conversation" see notes on 1 Peter 1:15, and on...
ὙΠῸ ΤΗ͂Σ ΤΩ͂Ν�. The structure reminds us of the clause 2 Peter 1:4 τῆς ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ ἐν ἐπιθυμίᾳ φθορᾶς. ἈΘΈΣΜΩΝ again in 2 Peter 3:17, and nowhere else in N.T. ἔκθεσμος is used by Philo of the inhabit...
ΔΊΚΑΙΟΣ (G1342) праведный. Согласно иудейской традиции, считалось, что мольба Авраама за праведников Содома относится к Лоту, поэтому он упоминается как праведный человек (Bauckham; SB, 3:76971). ΚΑΤ...
DISCOURSE: 2424 GOD THE PUNISHER OF SIN 2 Peter 2:4. If God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; and...
AND DELIVERED JUST LOT— _And rescued righteous Lot,_ &c....
2 PETER 2:7-8 AND DELIVERED RIGHTEOUS LOT, SORE DISTRESSED BY THE LASCIVIOUS LIFE OF THE WICKED (FOR THAT RIGHTEOUS MAN DWELLING AMONG THEM, IN SEEING AND HEARING, VEXED HIS RIGHTEOUS SOUL FROM DAY TO...
And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: FILTHY CONVERSATION, [ en (G1722) aselgeia (G766) anastrofees (G391)] - 'behaviour in licentiousness' ...
The program of prophecy has gradually become clearer with added revelation. The preexile prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah know only...
2:7 conversation (g-9) i.e. 'manner of life.'...
WARNING AGAINST A THREATENED PLAGUE OF BRUTAL FALSE TEACHERS As of old there were false as well as true prophets, so it will be now. This leads the Apostle to speak about the false teachers, who if th...
VEXED WITH THE FILTHY CONVERSATION] RV 'sore distressed by the lascivious life.'...
JESUS WILL RETURN PETER’S SECOND LETTER _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 FALSE TEACHERS Much of this chapter is similar to the letter of Jude. Some of the words are almost the same. Pe...
Peter said that Lot was a ‘good man’. Lot was not perfect. He chose to live in a wicked city. The people of Sodom and Gomorrah lived without any principles. They did what they wanted. They satisfied t...
AND DELIVERED JUST LOT. — Better, _righteous Lot_; it is the same adjective as occurs twice in the next verse. These repetitions of the same word, of which there are several examples in this Epistle ...
(4-8) Three instances of divine vengeance, proving that great wickedness never goes unpunished....
CHAPTER 23 THE LORD KNOWETH HOW TO DELIVER 2 Peter 2:1 THIS second chapter contains much more of a direct description of the heretical teaching and practices from which the converts were in danger,...
2 Peter 2:4-10 _a_. _A historical illustration of the Divine judgment on the wicked, and care of the righteous_. “God spared not angels who sinned, but having cast them into Tartarus, gave them over t...
καταπονούμενον, the word applied to the condition of the slave whom Moses delivered, Acts 7:24. It implies outward discomfort. ἀθέσμων. _Cf._ 2 Peter 3:17, “a stronger word than ἄνομος, because θεσμός...
DOOM AND DELIVERANCE 2 Peter 2:1 Already the early Church was threatened with destructive heresies introduced by men who desired only their self-aggrandizement. All the Apostles give warning against...
Turning to the subject of the perils threatening the Church, two are referred to - false teachers, and a materialization of mind which follows on such teaching. As in old days there were false prophet...
GOD'S SURE DELIVERANCE Again, Peter sought to show that God will save any righteous who may be found among the wicked. Lot was worn out with worry over the sin he saw all around him. What Lot saw and...
"But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring u...
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...
The next two Chapter s set before us, on the other hand, the two forms of evil that characterise the last days the false and corrupt teaching of bad men, and the unbelief which denies the return of th...
AND DELIVERED JUST LOT,.... Who was a just man, being justified by the righteousness of Christ imputed to him; and having the new man formed in him, which is created in righteousness and true holiness...
And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: Ver. 7. _Vexed_] Gr. καταπονουμενοι, labouring under it, as under a heavy burden, and as much tortured as if he had been set...
_And turning the cities of Sodom, &c., into ashes_ When the inhabitants of those places were sunk into the lowest degeneracy; _and condemned them with an overthrow_ Punished them with utter destructio...
SODOM AND GOMORRAH; GENESIS 19:16-25....
Examples from History:...
AND DELIVERED JUST LOT, VEXED WITH THE FILTHY CONVERSATION OF THE WICKED;...
But the true government of God has been hated and rejected -even by men claiming to be Christian. Peter, a true prophet, has forewarned of this in this chapter; and the day has come of which he has pr...
_ 2 Peter 2:7 ‘and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men'_ ‘HE RESCUED' -Mercy and condemnation are often found in the same event. The same will be true at...
1-9 Though the way of error is a hurtful way, many are always ready to walk therein. Let us take care we give no occasion to the enemy to blaspheme the holy name whereby we are called, or to speak ev...
VEXED; grievously afflicted or wearied. THE WICKED; unjust, lawless, (understand men), such as had no respect to law or justice, in opposition to Lot, whom he calls _just_ and _righteous._...
2 Peter 2:7 and G2532 delivered G4506 (G5673) righteous G1342 Lot G3091 oppressed G2669 (G5746) by G5259 filthy...
‘And delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked, (for that righteous man living among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with thei...
EXAMPLES OF GOD'S JUDGMENT ON LICENTIOUS BEHAVIOUR AND HIS DELIVERY OF THE RIGHTEOUS (2 PETER 2:4). Peter now calls on a number of examples from the Old Testament which demonstrate the truth of what...
2 Peter 2:7. AND DELIVERED RIGHTEOUS LOT, BORE DISTRESSED BY THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE LAWLESS IN WANTONNESS. Here again we have some unusual words. The verb which is rendered ‘vexed' by the A. V., but whi...
The second chapter of the Epistle stands entirely by itself. It is of so peculiar a character, that some have doubted whether it belonged originally to this Epistle, or could have been written by the...
AND DELIVERED (κα ερυσατο). First aorist middle of ρυομα as in Matthew 6:13, still part of the protasis with ε.RIGHTEOUS LOT (δικαιον Λοτ). This adjective δικαιος occurs three times in verses 2 Pe...
2 Peter 2:1. _But there were false prophets also among the people,_ How true that is still! Be not startled, brethren, as though some strange thing had happened to us in this generation. It always wa...
CONTENTS: Warnings concerning apostate teachers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Noah, Lot, Balaam. CONCLUSION: Where God sends His true messengers with His Word, the devil always sends some to seduce and...
2 Peter 2:1. _False teachers who bring in damnable heresies._ Sects leading to perdition, and to the extreme of punishment. Who were they? They were yet to come, in part; the roots only began as yet t...
HE RESCUED LOT. Peter points out that Lot was saved because he lived a righteous life, even in such a wicked place! Lot was deeply disturbed by the sin of the cities, but was not so successful with hi...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 2:7 Fourth minor premise: if (A) God RESCUED RIGHTEOUS LOT, who was GREATLY DISTRESSED and even tormented by the CONDUCT OF THE WICKED in Sodom (v....
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 2:4 Peter turns to a detailed argument proving God’s certain judgment on the false teachers. Four times he uses a lesser-to-greater method of argument (if A is true, how much m...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 2:1 Evaluation of False Teachers. In this third main section of his letter, Peter criticizes the false teachers, using biblical illustrations to do so....
MISCHIEF-MAKERS AND MISCHIEF-MAKING _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE subject treated in this chapter is the mischievous influence of corrupting doctrine. And false doctrine is constantly treated i...
EXPOSITION 2 PETER 2:1 BUT THERE WERE FALSE PROPHETS ALSO AMONG THE PEOPLE; rather, as in the Revised Version, _but there arose false prophets also among the people. _The transition is simple and na...
False prophets have always been around. Now they don't wear signs, "I'm a false prophet". They come in sheep's clothing. They look like sheep. They come sometimes dripping with love and phrases of lov...
1 Corinthians 10:13; Genesis 13:13; Genesis 19:16; Genesis 19:22;...
Just [δ ι κ α ι ο ν]. Occurring three times in vv. 7, 8. Vexed [κ α τ α π ο ν ο υ μ ε ν ο ν]. Only here and Acts 7:24. Kata gives the force of worn down. So Rev., sore distressed. With the filthy con...
TIMELY WARNINGS 2 Peter 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It has been said that "to be forewarned is to be forearmed." If God had not told us the things which would surely come, to pass, we would not be prepa...
Observe here, 1. As bad as Sodom was, it had. good man in it; God leaves not himself without witness, in the vilest and worst of places God has some that profess his name, and bear witness to his trut...