Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
2 Peter 3:17
ἀθέσμων, πλάνῃ, 2 Peter 2:7; 2 Peter 2:18.
συναπαχθέντες as Galatians 2:13, Βαρνάβας συναπήχθη αὐτῶν τῇ ὑποκρίσει.
ἀθέσμων, πλάνῃ, 2 Peter 2:7; 2 Peter 2:18.
συναπαχθέντες as Galatians 2:13, Βαρνάβας συναπήχθη αὐτῶν τῇ ὑποκρίσει.
Verse 17. _SEEING YE KNOW - BEFORE_] Seeing that by prophets and apostles you have been thus forewarned, _beware_, φυλασσεσθε, _keep_ _watch_, be on _your guard_; cleave to God and the word of his gr...
SEEING THAT YE KNOW THESE THINGS BEFORE - Being aware of this danger, and knowing that such results may follow. People should read the Bible with the feeling that it is possible that they may fall int...
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)...
As far as you are concerned. beloved, you have been forewarned. You must, therefore, be on your guard not to be carried away by the error of lawless men and so to fall from your own foundation; rather...
KNOW. BEFORE. Greek. _proginosko._ App-132. BEWARE. be on your guard. LEST. in order that (Greek. _hina)_ not (Greek. _me_, as in 2 Peter 3:8). LED AWAY. Greek. _aunapagomai._ See Romans 12:16;...
_beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked_ Better, OF THE LAWLESS ONES, as in chap. 2 Peter 2:7. It is noticeable that while St Paul had used the word for being "led away" of B...
ΠΡΟΓΙΝΏΣΚΟΝΤΕΣPRAES. _act. part. от_ ΠΡΟΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G4267) знать заранее, знать наперед. Part, может быть причинным, ΦΥΛΆΣΣΕΣΘΕ _praes. imper. med. (dep.) от_ ΦΥΛΆΣΣΩ (G5442) стеречь, наблюдать; _med._...
DISCOURSE: 2429 GROWTH IN GRACE 2 Peter 3:17. _Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfas...
YE THEREFORE, BELOVED,— Beza observes, that St. Peter does not say here, "Abstain from these obscure scriptures; choose out only certain Chapter s; leave the rest either to the more learned, or the mo...
2 PETER 3:17 YE THEREFORE, BELOVED, KNOWING THESE THINGS BEFOREHAND, BEWARE LEST, BEING CARRIED AWAY WITH THE ERROR OF THE WICKED, YE FALL FROM YOUR OWN STEDFASTNESS. _Expanded Translation_ You there...
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. YE - warned by the case of those "unlea...
VERSE 17. YE THEREFORE, BELOVED, SEEING YE KNOW. Being forewarned, be on your guard, lest ye be seduced from your steadfastness in the gospel by the errors of these teachers, and are induced to give...
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...
3:17 knowing (a-4) _ Ginosko_ , as ver. 3; ch. 1.20. It is _ oida_ in ch. 1.12,14; 2.9. see 1 Corinthians 8:1 ....
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...
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...
The Christians knew that false teachers would come. Therefore, the Christians had to be careful. Otherwise, those wicked people would tempt them away from the truth about Jesus. If the Christians did...
KNOW THESE THINGS BEFORE. — Seeing that I have forewarned you of the certain appearance, conduct, and success of these false teachers and scoffers. “Forewarned, forearmed.” BEING LED AWAY WITH. — The...
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...
This verse gathers up various thoughts that appear elsewhere in the epistle. Προγινώσκοντες repeats ταῦτα πρῶτον γινώσκοντες of 2 Peter 1:20; 2 Peter 3:1; ἀθέσμων occurs 2 Peter 2:7; πλάνη...
_Final exhortation_. “Having then, brethren, been forewarned, be on your guard lest you fall from your own foundation, carried away by the error of lawless men. Grow in the grace and knowledge of Our...
“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...
Being forewarned, therefore, and _knowing these things before, take heed not to be led away by the errors of such false and unwise teachers, whatever knowledge they boast of, as did the Gnostics. But...
"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...
_FALLING AWAY_ ‘Ye therefore, beloved … beware lest ye … fall from your own stedfastness.’ 2 Peter 3:17 That which the Apostles had to place before the readers of their letters, all Christian teach...
17._Ye, therefore, beloved. _After having shewn to the faithful the dangers of which they were to beware, he now concludes by admonishing them to be wise. But he shews that there was need of being wat...
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...
YE THEREFORE, BELOVED, SEEING YE KNOW [THESE THINGS] BEFORE,.... As that there will be such mockers and scoffers in the last days, and such unlearned and unstable men that will deprave the Scriptures,...
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know _these things_ before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. Ver. 17. _Beware lest_] _Cavebis autem...
_Therefore, seeing ye know these things before_ Respecting the coming of the Lord to judgment, in what an awful manner the scene will close, and what dreadful vengeance will be executed on all the wic...
YE, THEREFORE, BELOVED, SEEING YE KNOW THESE THINGS BEFORE, BEWARE LEST YE ALSO, BEING LED AWAY WITH THE ERROR OF THE WICKED, FALL FROM YOUR OWN STEADFASTNESS....
An admonition to steadfastness:...
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 3:17 ‘You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard lest, being carried away by the error of unprincipled men, you fall from your own steadfastness,'_ ‘YOU, THEREFORE, BE...
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...
SEEING YE KNOW THESE THINGS, which I have been now writing to you of, viz. That the Judge will certainly come; or, that heretics, deceivers, and scoffers will come; or both may be comprehended. BEWARE...
2 Peter 3:17 You G5210 therefore G3767 beloved G27 beforehand G4267 (G5723) beware G5442 (G5732) lest G3363 fall...
FINAL SUMMARY (2 PETER 3:17). Peter now sums up what he has said, firstly with a warning and then with an appeal. They are to beware lest they be carried away by false teaching, and they are to grow...
‘You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware (or ‘guard yourselves') lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked (or ‘the lawless'), you fall from your own steadfastness....
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 3:17. YE THEREFORE, BELOVED, KNOWING THESE THINGS BEFORE, BEWARE LEST, CARRIED AWAY WITH THE ERROR OF THE LAWLESS, YE FALL FROM YOUR OWN STEDFASTNESS. The epithet ‘lawless' (not merely ‘wicked...
KNOWING THESE THINGS BEFOREHAND (προγινωσκοντες). Present active participle of προγινωσκω as in 1 Peter 1:20. Cf. πρωτον γινωσκω (2 Peter 1:20; 2 Peter 3:1). Hence they are without excuse for misund...
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...
ALREADY KNOW THIS. "You already know all these things I have warned you about. I just want to put you on your guard so that no false teachers will be able to steal your promise away from you and make...
_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 3:17 KNOWING THIS BEFOREHAND. The readers have now been informed that the false teachers were distorting Paul’s teaching. Paul advocates neither sin nor lawlessness, so they sh...
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...
_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 15:58; 1 Peter 5:9; 2 Corinthians 11:13; 2 Corinthians 11:3;...
Being led away [σ υ ν α π α χ θ ε ν τ ε ς]. Better, Rev., carried away. It is the word used by Paul of Barnabas, when he dissembled with Peter at Antioch. "Barnabas was carried away with their dissimu...
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...
Our apostle concludes his epistle with an exhortation to watch against the errors and false doctrines of seducers, lest we, being led away thereby, do fall from our own stedfastness in the faith of th...