The other Scriptures] RV '.. scriptures.' The Scriptures proper of the Apostolic Church were the books of the OT. But the letters of the Apostles were read publicly in the churches to whom they were addressed, and in others: see Colossians 4:16. Hence they would gradually come to be called 'scriptures' also. Here, as perhaps in 2 Timothy 3:16, we discern the beginning of this habit.
Verse 16. _AS ALSO IN ALL_ his _epistles, speaking in them of_ _these things_] Paul, in all his epistles, says Dr. _Macknight_, has spoken of the things written by Peter in this letter. For example,...
AS ALSO IN ALL HIS EPISTLES - Not only in those which he addressed to the churches in Asia Minor, but in his epistles generally. It is to be presumed that they might have had an acquaintance with some...
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)...
The epistle closes, as it had opened, with an exhortation to godliness. The Gospel is not a cloke for licentiousness but a call to righteousness. This, the author adds, was the burden of Paul's teachi...
THE PRINCIPLES OF PREACHING (2 Peter 3:1-2)...
Regard the Lord's willingness to wait as an opportunity of salvation, as indeed our beloved brother Paul has written to us, in the wisdom which has been given to him, and as he says in all his letters...
ALSO, &C. = in all _his_ epistles also. SPEAKING. App-121.7. SOME. App-124. (neut). HARD, &C. Greek. _dusnoetos._ Only here. UNLEARNED. Greek. _amathes._ Only here. Compare Acts 4:13. 1Co 14:16. 2...
_as also in all his epistles_ The English represents the Greek accurately enough, but the absence of the article in the original should be noted as shewing that there was not yet any complete collecti...
ἘΝ ΠΆΣΑΙΣ ἘΠΙΣΤΟΛΑΙ͂Σ. πάσαις ταῖς is read by אKLP: ABC omit the article, and are followed by Westcott and Hort. The phrase reads very awkwardly without it. There is no great difference in sense, whet...
IN WHICH ARE SOME THINGS HARD, &C.— "In which epistles of his are some things, &c." And it is most true, that in St. Paul's epistles there are some difficult points, which were greatly abused and perv...
2 PETER 3:16 AS ALSO IN ALL HIS EPISTLES, SPEAKING IN THEM OF THESE THINGS; WHEREIN ARE SOME THINGS HARD TO BE UNDERSTOOD, WHICH THE IGNORANT AND UNSTEDFAST WREST, AS THEY DO ALSO THE OTHER SCRIPTURES...
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures,...
VERSE 16. AS ALSO IN ALL OF HIS EPISTLES. The apostle says that Paul spoke in all of his epistles the things in this his epistle announced. From this expression we gather the idea that he had seen ot...
15 It is evident that Peter, great apostle though he was, could not apprehend fully the ministry of Paul. He did see, however, that the seeming delay in the setting up of the kingdom was being used by...
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...
Paul taught that Jesus will return. And Paul emphasised in his letters that Christians needed to live good lives before this event. The Christians to whom Peter was writing probably knew Paul’s letter...
AS ALSO IN ALL HIS EPISTLES. — All those known to the writer. The expression does not necessarily Imply that St. Paul was dead, and that his Epistles had been collected into one volume. That each chur...
CHAPTER 30 "BE YE STEADFAST, UNMOVABLE" 2 Peter 3:14 IN these solemn closing words the Apostle sums up his exhortations and warnings. His admonition is of a twofold character. First, he urges the br...
ὡς καὶ ἐν πάσαις ταῖς ἐπιστολαῖς. This statement implies neither the inclusion of all the epistles that have come down to us, nor the formation of a canon. It is much more natural to take it as referr...
_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...
“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 PROMISE OF NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH The new heavens and new earth promise is evidently from Isaiah 65:17; Isaiah 66:22. Christians should know that when the old earth is destroyed there will be...
As also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; (13) in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as [they do] also the other scri...
As also our most dear brother, Paul,...hath written to you. He seems to mean in his epistle to the Hebrews or converted Jews, (Chap. x. 37.) where he says: yet a little while,...and he that is to come...
[BIBLIOGRAPHY] Depravant, _Greek: streblousin. detorquent. It is a speech, says Mr. Legh, on Greek: strebloo, borrowed from torturers, when they put an innocent man on the rack, and make him speak wh...
"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...
16._In which are some things. _The relative _which _does not refer to _epistles, _for it is in the neuter gender. (185) The meaning is, that in the things which he wrote there was sometimes an obscuri...
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...
AS ALSO IN ALL [HIS] EPISTLES,.... From whence it appears, that the Apostle Paul had, by this time, wrote several of his epistles, if not all of them; and they were all written according to the same w...
As also in all _his_ epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as _they do_ also the other scripture...
_As also in all his epistles_ From this it appears that Peter had read Paul's epistles; and, as he speaks not of some but of all of them, it is probable that Paul was dead when St. Peter wrote this, n...
THESE THINGS; Christ's coming to judgment, and the necessity of diligent preparation in order to meet him in peace. UNLEARNED AND UNSTABLE; ignorant persons who have no settled principles, and do not...
An admonition to steadfastness:...
AS ALSO IN ALL HIS EPISTLES, SPEAKING IN THEM OF THESE THINGS; IN WHICH ARE SOME THINGS HARD TO BE UNDERSTOOD, WHICH THEY THAT ARE UNLEARNED AND UNSTABLE WREST, AS THEY DO ALSO THE OTHER SCRIPTURES, U...
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 3:16 ‘as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scri...
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...
AS ALSO IN ALL HIS EPISTLES; to make the sense complete, we must supply here from the former verse, _he hath written._ SPEAKING IN THEM OF THESE THINGS; viz. concerning the second coming of Christ, an...
Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Fifth [Keep the commandments of the Lord, and you will be approved, and inscribed amongst the number of those who observe His commands.] And if you do any good beyond wh...
2 Peter 3:16 as G5613 also G2532 in G1722 all G3956 epistles G1992 speaking G2980 (G5723) in G1722 them...
THE CHRISTIAN'S RESPONSE TO WHAT IS COMING (2 PETER 3:14)....
‘As also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unsteadfast wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their...
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...
2 Peter 3:16. AS ALSO IN ALL (HIS) EPISTLES, SPEAKING IN THEM OF THESE THINGS; a statement from which we are not entitled to infer that the Pauline Epistles already formed a collection which could be...
AS ALSO IN ALL HIS EPISTLES (ως κα εν πασαις επιστολαις). We do not know to how many Peter here refers. There is no difficulty in supposing that Peter "received every one of St. Paul's Epistles wit...
2 Peter 3:16 Consider the best means of avoiding the danger of professing to honour the word of God while yet you degrade it to purposes most alien from its spirit. I. First, I would say, study the 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...
THIS IS WHAT HE SAYS. This implies that Paul is now dead and that Peter has read everything Paul had written. Note that Peter calls their attention to the fact that Paul wrote the very same thing abou...
_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 3:14 Concluding Encouragements. To obtain their final reward, believers must live a godly life and resist the immorality promoted by the false teachers (see...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 3:15 The delay of Christ’s return should be understood as his PATIENCE leading people to SALVATION (see v. 2 Pete
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 3:16 IN ALL HIS LETTERS shows awareness of some kind of collection of Paul’s letters. SOME THINGS... HARD TO UNDERSTAND. Correctly understanding some hard passages of Scripture...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— 2 Peter 3:14_ The Common Teaching of the Apostles.—St. Peter’s reference to St. Paul brings the relations of these two men to mind. At one time they were very strai...
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 15:1; 1 Kings 10:1; 1 Peter 1:1; 1 Peter 2:8;...
Hard to be understood [δ υ σ ν ο η τ α]. Only here in New Testament. They that are unlearned and unstable [ο ι α μ α θ ε ι ς κ α ι α σ τ η ρ ι κ τ ο ι]. Both words are peculiar to Peter. On the latter...
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...
As also in all his epistles — St. Peter wrote this a little before his own and St. Paul's martyrdom. St. Paul therefore had now written all his epistles; and even from this expression we may learn tha...