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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,...
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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...
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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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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...
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THE PRINCIPLES OF PREACHING (2 Peter 3:1-2)...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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
a...
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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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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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“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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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[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...
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"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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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An admonition to steadfastness:...
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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 3:16 ‘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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Peter 3:16 as G5613 also G2532 in G1722 all G3956 epistles G1992
speaking G2980 (G5723) in G1722 them...
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THE CHRISTIAN'S RESPONSE TO WHAT IS COMING (2 PETER 3:14)....
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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_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...
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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 15:1; 1 Kings 10:1; 1 Peter 1:1; 1 Peter 2:8;...
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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...
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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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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...