Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
2 Peter 3:3
Shall come.. scoffers] RV 'mockers shall come with mockery,' a repetition in the style of 1 Pet.
Shall come.. scoffers] RV 'mockers shall come with mockery,' a repetition in the style of 1 Pet.
Verse 2 Peter 3:3. _KNOWING THIS FIRST_] Considering this in an _especial_ manner, that those prophets predicted the coming of false teachers: and their being now in the Church proved how clearly they...
KNOWING THIS FIRST - As among the first and most important things to be attended to - as one of the predictions which demand your special regard. Jude Jude 1:18 says that the fact that there would be...
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...
2 PETER 3:1 F. In this, as in his former letter, he is only reminding them of the OT prophecies and of the teaching of the apostles the twofold witness to which he had appealed in ch. 1. 2 PETER 3:1....
THE PRINCIPLES OF PREACHING (2 Peter 3:1-2)...
To begin with, you are well aware that in the last days there will come mockers with their mocking, guiding their steps by the law of their own lusts and saying, "What has happened to the promise of h...
LAST DAYS. See Acts 2:17; 2 Timothy 3:1. SCOFFERS. mockers. Greek. _empaiktes._ Only here and Jude 1:18. WALKING. All the texts add after walking, "in (App-104.) mockery". Greek. _empaigmone._ Only h...
_knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers_ The better MSS. give the emphatic Hebrew idiom of reduplication (comp. Genesis 22:17), SCOFFERS SHALL COME IN THEIR SCOFFING. The...
With this verse we return to the borrowing from Jude (Jude 1:17) ὑμεῖς δέ, ἀγαπητοί, μνήσθητε τῶν ῥημάτων τῶν προειρημένων ὑπὸ τῶν�. κυρ. ἡμ. Ἰ. Χ. ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ ΠΡΩ͂ΤΟΝ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΟΝΤΕΣ, above, 2 Peter 1:20. Th...
ΓΙΝΏΣΚΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать. Part, может использоваться в значении _imper._ (Mayor), ΈΛΕΎΣΟΝΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) приходить, ΈΣΧΆΤΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΉΜΕΡΩΝ...
KNOWING THIS FIRST— That is, either what was to happen first in order of time, or as a premise, from whence they might conclude, that they ought to remember the predictions of the prophets, and the co...
2 PETER 3:3-4 KNOWING THIS FIRST, THAT IN THE LAST DAYS MOCKERS SHALL COME WITH MOCKERY, WALKING AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS, AND SAYING, WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING? FOR, FROM THE DAY THAT THE FATHE...
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, KNOWING THIS FIRST - from the apostles. SHALL COME. Their very scoffing shall confirm the predicti...
VERSE 3. KNOWING THIS FIRST, THAT SCOFFERS. Among other things, remember that both prophets and apostles have told you that in the last days of Judaism scoffers will appear. These, walking after thei...
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...
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...
Jesus came to this world for the first time about 2000 years ago. One day he will return to this world. The ‘last days’ is the time between these two events. Many people do not believe that Jesus will...
SECOND PREDICTION: Scoffers shall throw doubt on Christ’s return. (3) IN THE LAST DAYS. — Comp. 1 Peter 1:20; Hebrews 1:2; and the parallel passage to this, Jude 1:18. “Know this first, children, that...
CHAPTER 26 AS WERE THE DAYS OF NOAH 2 Peter 3:1 IN the previous chapter the Apostle showed how the renegade false teachers had published among the brethren their seductive doctrine declaring that Go...
_Prophets and apostles have warned us that delay will lead to denial of the Second Advent_. “I am now writing my second letter to you. In both I seek to rouse you to honest reflection on the words for...
τοῦτο πρῶτον γινώσκοντες. Accusative is required, but all MSS. have nominative, _cf._ Jude 1:18. ἐπʼ ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν. Mockers are one of the signs of the approach of the end, _cf._ 1 John 2:18. ἐν...
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,...
MOCKERS WHO WOULD DENY THE LORD'S RETURN The first thing to be considered is the coming of those who would mock the truth. The "last days" are the days of the gospel age, which is the final age of God...
(2) Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days (a) scoffers, walking after their own lusts, (2) He vouches the second coming of Christ against the Epicureans by name. (a) Monstrous m...
Scoffers [1] with deceit, (such as make a jest of all revealed religion) walking according to their own lusts, as if they might indulge themselves in every thing which their inclinations prompt them t...
"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...
3._Knowing this first. _The participle _knowing _may be applied to the Apostle, and in this way, “I labor to stir you up for this reason, because I know what and how great is your impending danger fro...
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...
KNOWING THIS FIRST,.... In the first place, principally, and chiefly, and which might easily be known and observed from the writings of the apostles and prophets; see 1 Timothy 4:1; THAT THERE SHALL...
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, Ver. 3. _Scoffers_] Those worst kind of sinners, Psalms 1:1; those abjects of the people, Psalms 35...
_Knowing this first_ That your faith in the prophetic word may not be shaken, but that you may be armed and prepared for the trial; _that there shall come in the last days_ The expression here used, ε...
THE LAST DAYS; see note to 1 Timothy 4:1....
KNOWING THIS FIRST, THAT THERE SHALL COME IN THE LAST DAYS SCOFFERS, WALKING AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS...
THE CERTAIN COMING OF CHRIST AND ITS LESSONS. A warning against scoffers:...
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 3:3 ‘Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts,'_ ‘KNOW THIS FIRST OF ALL' -‘recognize this fact in the beginning'...
1-4 The purified minds of Christians are to be stirred up, that they may be active and lively in the work of holiness. There will be scoffers in the last days, under the gospel, men who make light of...
KNOWING THIS FIRST; especially, as being very necessary to be known. The apostle having in the former chapter cautioned these saints against the more close enemies of the gospel, seducers and false te...
1 Clement Far from us be that which is written, "Wretched are they who are of a double mind, and of a doubting heart; who say, These things we have heard even in the times of our fathers; but, behold...
2 Peter 3:3 knowing G1097 (G5723) this G5124 first G4412 that G3754 scoffers G1703 come G2064 (G5695) in...
THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING (2 PETER 3:3). ‘Knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,' Compare here Jude 1:17, ‘remember the words which 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...
2 Peter 3:3. KNOWING THIS FIRST; the same formula, with the same force, as in chap. 2 Peter 1:20. THAT IN THE LAST OF THE DAYS; so it should be rendered, in accordance with a reading which is preferr...
KNOWING THIS FIRST (τουτο πρωτον γινωσκοντες). Present active participle of γινωσκω. See 2 Peter 1:20 for this identical phrase. Nominative absolute here where accusative γινωσκοντας would be regula...
2 Peter 3:3 Righteousness the School of Hope. Note: I. The cause which led persons to argue that Christ was gone never to return. It was the absence of change; the unvarying order and course of natu...
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...
FIRST OF ALL. The _last days_ began at Pentecost (Acts 2:16-17) and will continue until Christ Comes Again!!! Christians live in a _last-hour situation (see_ 1 John 2:18_ and note)._ False teachers wi...
_There shall come in the last days scoffers._ THE CHARACTER OF THE LAST DAYS I. The personal qualifications of the disputers here described. To be a scoffer is sure no very laudable character, being...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 3:3 LAST DAYS. Peter and the rest of the NT authors teach that the “last days” have already arrived (see note on Acts 2:17)....
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 2:18; 1 Timothy 4:1; 1 Timothy 4:2; 2 Corinthians 4:2; 2 Pet
Scoffers walking [ε μ π α ι κ τ α ι π ο ρ ε υ ο μ ε ν ο ι]. This is the reading followed by A. V. But the later texts have added ejmpaigmonh, in mockery, occurring only here, though a kindred word for...
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...
Observe here, 1. The persons foretold, or what sort of men should be found in these last days; namely, SCOFFERS. These are the dregs of mankind, found in the dregs of time; they scoff sometimes at the...