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 Christians, an occasion for mockery. The sense in which the Early Church expected an early personal retur... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 misrepresent this verse, to regard it as fixing God’s measure for a day as being a thousand years. To do so wo... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 strained, and from the human point of view the strain can be very simply explained. To St. Peter was entr... [ Continue Reading ]