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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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._...
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THE PRINCIPLES OF PREACHING (2 Peter 3:1-2)...
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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...
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BE NOT, &C. Literally let not this one thing be hidden (as 2 Peter
3:6) from you.
WITH. App-104.
LORD. App-98....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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BE NOT IGNORANT] RV 'forget not': cp. 2 Peter 3:5. Another
characteristic repetition.
THAT ONE DAY, etc.] from Psalms 90:4....
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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_,...
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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,...
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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...
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(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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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....
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The answer of St. Peter, showing the certainty of the Lord's return:...
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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...
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_ 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Peter 3:8 But G1161 beloved G27 do G2990 not G3361 G5209 forget
G2990 (G5720) one G1520 thing...
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THE REASON FOR DELAY AND THE FINAL FULFILMENT (2 PETER 3:8)....
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 10:1; 1 Corinthians 12:1; Psalms 90:4; Romans 11:25...
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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...
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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...
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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,...