Verse 9. The Lord is not slack.
What God has said, or what he has promised to do as to the time in which he will accomplish, the same must not be measured as men measure time. His delay simply evinces his long-suffering extended to men, giving thereby time for repentance. His delay shows his love for man, and his unwillingness that any should perish.
2 PETER 3:9 eivj u`ma/j {A} Although the preposition dia, is widely supported (it is read by a A Y 33 630 vg syrph, h copsa, bomss eth Speculum _al_), the Committee preferred eivj,...
Verse 9. _THE LORD IS NOT SLACK_] They probably in their _mocking_ said, "Either God had made no such promise to judge the world, destroy the earth, and send ungodly men to perdition; or if he had, he...
THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE - That is, it should not be inferred because His promise seems to be long delayed that therefore it will fail. When people, after a considerable lapse of t...
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...
IS NOT SLACK. does not delay. See 1 Timothy 3:15. CONCERNING. App-17. SOME MEN. App-124. COUNT. reckon. Same word "account", 2 Peter 3:15. SLACKNESS. Greek. _bradutes._ Only here. TO US-WARD. tow...
_The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness_ We enter here on the third answer, and it rests on the purpose which was working through what men looked on as a delay in th...
ΒΡΑΔΎΝΕΙ with a genitive only here: it is compared with the use of ἁμαρτάνω, ὑστερεῖν, λείπεσθαι. ΜΑΚΡΟΘΥΜΕΙ͂. Cf. 1 Peter 3:20 ἀπειθήσασιν ὅτε�. ΕἸΣ ὙΜΑ͂Σ. Evidence is divided here both as to the p...
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...
ΒΡΑΔΎΝΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΒΡΑΔΎΝΩ (G1019) быть медленным, откладывать. О примерах из папирусов _см._ ММ. ΒΡΑΔΎΤΗΣ (G1022) медлительность, отсрочка, ΗΓΟΎΝΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΉΓΈΟΜΑΙ...
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...
THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE— He may be called slow or slack, who has it in his power, and yet does not perform a thing at the proper time; but that cannot be said of God, who is perfe...
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...
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. SLACK - tardy,...
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...
3:9 willing (f-19) 'Purposing,' as James 1:18 ....
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...
NOT WILLING] RV 'not wishing'; in spite of this different word we are reminded of 1 Timothy 2:4....
God will always keep his promises. Many people thought that Jesus should have returned already. But Peter explained that God is willing to wait. He is not slow, as people may think. But he is patient....
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...
_Third Answer_ — a practical one: Make good use of what to you seems to be delay. THE LORD IS NOT SLACK. — We are in doubt whether “the Lord” means Christ or God the Father. In 2 Peter 3:8 “the Lord”...
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...
οὐ βραδύνει … ἡγοῦνται. The idea that is combated is that God has made a promise and has not kept it, He is, however, better than His promise. The additional element of His μακροθυμία is brought into...
_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...
(8) The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; (9) but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (8) The...
"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...
9._But the Lord is not slack, _or, _delays not_. He checks extreme and unreasonable haste by another reason, that is, that the Lord defers his coming that he might invite all mankind to repentance. Fo...
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...
THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE,.... The Syriac version reads in the plural, "his promises", any of his promises; though the words seem rather to regard the particular promise of Christ's...
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Ver. 9. _Not wi...
_The Lord is not slack_ Ου βραδυνει, _does not delay_, or is not slow; _concerning his promise_ To fulfil it, as if the time fixed for the fulfilment of it were past; for it shall surely be fulfilled...
HIS PROMISE; of a future judgment, when he will save his people and destroy their enemies. COUNT SLACKNESS; impute slackness to him, because he waits so long before executing his threatened judgments...
The answer of St. Peter, showing the certainty of the Lord's return:...
THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE, AS SOME MEN COUNT SLACKNESS, BUT IS LONG-SUFFERING TO US-WARD, NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH, BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE....
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 3:9 ‘The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.'_ ‘THE LORD IS NOT SLOW ABOU...
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 LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE; i.e. doth not defer the fulfilling of it beyond the appointed time, ISAIAH 60:22. AS SOME MEN COUNT SLACKNESS; either the scoffers here mentioned, who, be...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians But may those that dishonoured them be forgiven through the grace of Jesus Christ, "who wisheth not the death of the sinner, but his repentance."[90] Archel...
2 Peter 3:9 Lord G2962 is G1019 not G3756 slack G1019 (G5719) promise G1860 as G5613 some G5100 count...
‘The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering towards you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.' So in view of the...
THE REASON FOR DELAY AND THE FINAL FULFILMENT (2 PETER 3:8)....
2 Peter 3:9. THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE, AS SOME COUNT SLACKNESS. The apparent delay in the performance of the Divine engagement is capable of a still more assuring explanation. It h...
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...
IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE (ου βραδυνε της επαγγελιας). Ablative case επαγγελιας after βραδυνε (present active indicative of βραδυνω, from βραδυς, slow), old verb, to be slow in, to fall s...
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...
THE LORD IS NOT SLOW. "If the Lord seems slow to keep his promise to destroy the world, it is certainly not because he cannot do it!!!" INSTEAD. God acted in Christ to offer salvation to all mankind!...
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 Peter 3:20; 1 Timothy 1:16; 1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Peter 3:15; Exodus 18:23
Is not slack [ο υ β ρ α δ υ ν ε ι]. Only here and 1 Timothy 3:15. The word is literally to delay or loiter. So Septuagint, Genesis 43:10, "except we had lingered." Alford's rendering, is not tardy, wo...
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...
The Lord is not slow — As if the time fixed for it were past. Concerning his promise — Which shall surely be fulfilled in its season. But is longsuffering towards us — Children of men. Not willing tha...