Verse 6. Whereby the world that then was.
By the water that surrounded the earth, the earth as it was of old was overflowed and destroyed. The apostle here refers to the destruction of the world by a flood of water in the days of Noah. This destruction is a refutation of the claim of stability beng attached to the earth, so confidently assumed by these scoffers. The weakness of their argument at once becomes apparent.
WHEREBY - Δι ̓ ὧν Di' hōn. Through which, or by means of which. The pronoun here is in the plural number, and there has been much difference of opinion as to what it refers. Some suppose that it re...
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...
THE PRINCIPLES OF PREACHING (2 Peter 3:1-2)...
What they wilfully fail to see is that long ago the heavens were created and the earth was composed out of water and through water; and through these waters the ancient world perished, when it was ove...
WHEREBY. By (App-104. 2 Peter 3:1) which (means). THE WORLD, &C. Literally the then world (App-129.) OVERFLOWED. Greek. _katakluzo_. Only here. Compare 2 Peter 2:5. PERISHED. See John 17:12....
_whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished_ The "whereby" is not without its difficulties. Does it refer to the whole fact of creation described in the previous verse, or...
ΔΙʼ ὮΝ. I am inclined (in spite of the fact that the word is rather remote in position) to think that οὐρανοί is the antecedent of ὧν. “There were heavens … by means of which the old world was deluged...
NOTE ON THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD BY FIRE The passage 2 Peter 3:5-13 is the only one in the New Testament which speaks of the destruction of the world by fire. The coming of Christ, the Resurrectio...
ΚΑΤΑΚΛΥΣΘΕΊΣ _aor. pass. part. от_ КАΤΑΚΛΎΖΩ (G2626) полностью заливать, затапливать, наводнять. Part, средства или образа действия, объясняющее, как был уничтожен мир. ΆΠΏΛΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.)...
WHEREBY— Δι ων, _by which things;_ that is, by the heavens and earth being of such a constitution....
2 PETER 3:5-6 FOR THIS DAY THEY WILFULLY FORGET, THAT THERE WERE HEAVENS FROM OF OLD, AND AN EARTH COMPACTED OUT OF WATER AND AMIDST WATER, BY THE WORD OF GOD; BY WHICH MEANS THE WORLD THAT THEN WAS,...
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: WHEREBY, [ Di' (G1223) hon (G3739)] - (plural). By means of which heavens and earth (in respect to the WATERS which flowed toge...
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...
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...
WHEREBY] i.e. by means of the water and of the word: cp. Hebrews 11:7, 'word' and 'fire.'...
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...
However, people in the world were wicked. So God *judged the world. He caused the water to flood the earth. Noah, his family and the animals were safe in the big boat (Genesis 6:8). But everyone else...
WHEREBY. — The meaning of this is much disputed. The original literally signifies, _by means of which things._ But what things? The context allows various alternatives: (1) These facts about the Creat...
CHAPTER 27 JUDGMENT TO COME 2 Peter 3:5 "THE world lasts on" (διαμενει) "through all time," say the scoffers, "just as it was at the Creation. There has been no change; there will be none." But out...
διʼ ὧν. Mayor and Schmeidel, against the evidence of nearly all manuscripts, read διʼ ὅν. This is rendered unnecessary (1) if the above rendering of ἐξ ὕδατος κ. τ. λ. is taken, and the plural διʼ ὧν...
_The first part of the argument against the scoffers_. “It is not true that the course of the world is unchanging. They have wilfully forgotten that the heavens existed originally, and the earth was f...
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,...
ANSWERING THE SCOFFERS The scoffers had ignored the creation. It was a perfect proof that things had not always been the same. Instead, God had spoken and the waters were separated to that above and b...
(5) Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with (c) water, perished: (5) Secondly he sets against them the universal flood, which was the destruction of the whole world. (c) For the water...
"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...
It seems, however, strange that he says that the world perished through the deluge, when he had before mentioned the heaven and the earth. To this I answer, that the heaven was then also submerged, th...
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...
WHEREBY THE WORLD THAT THEN WAS,.... The old world, as it is called in 2 Peter 2:5; and as the Ethiopic version here renders it; the world before the flood, that had stood from the creation 1656 years...
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: Ver. 6. _Being overflowed with water_] Therefore that is not altogether true, that all things continue as they were at first, a...
_Where is the promise of his coming_ To raise the dead, judge mankind, and destroy the earth? We see no sign of any such thing. The promise of Christ's coming we have Matthew 15:27, _The Son of man sh...
THE WORLD-PERISHED; and as it had once been destroyed, it would be destroyed again; not as before with water, but with fire....
WHEREBY THE WORLD THAT THEN WAS, BEING OVERFLOWED WITH WATER, PERISHED....
The answer of St. Peter, showing the certainty of the Lord's return:...
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 3:6 ‘through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.'_ ‘THROUGH WHICH' -‘and that by the same means the world which then existed was destroyed in. deluge of wat...
5-10 Had these scoffers considered the dreadful vengeance with which God swept away a whole world of ungodly men at once, surely they would not have scoffed at his threatening an equally terrible jud...
WHEREBY; by which heavens and water, mentioned in the former verse, the fountains of the great deep being broken up, and the windows of heaven opened, GENESIS 7:11. Or, by the word of God, as the prin...
2 Peter 3:6 by G1223 which G3739 world G2889 existed G5119 perished G622 (G5639) flooded G2626 (G5685) water...
‘For this they wilfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth having been brought together out of water and amidst water, by the word of God. By which means the world that then was...
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 3:6. WHEREBY THE THEN WORLD BEING FLOODED WITH WATER PERISHED. The term used for ‘world' here is the one (_cosmos_) which describes it as a system of order and beauty, and presents it (in dist...
BY WHICH MEANS (δι' ων). The two waters above or the water and the word of God. Mayor against the MSS. reads δι' ου (singular) and refers it to λογω alone.BEING OVERSHADOWED (κατακλυσθεις). First...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
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...
BY WATER ALSO. _MacKnight_ says: "The reason is, if the word of God destroyed the old world by water, he certainly is able to destroy it a second time." See Genesis 7:11-12....
_This they willingly are ignorant of._ WILLING IGNORANCE Nelson, at St. Vincent, putting the telescope to his blind eye, and swearing that he could not see the signal to cease firing, affords an apt...
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...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 3:4 Scoffers (v. 2 Peter 3:3) will question the biblical PROMISE of the Lord’s COMING....
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...
2 Peter 2:5; Genesis 7:10; Genesis 9:15; Job 12:15; Luke 17:27;...
The world that then was [ο τ ο τ ε κ ο σ μ ο ς]. Lit., the then world. The word for world is literally order, and denotes the perfect system of the material universe. Being overflowed [κ α τ α κ λ υ...
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...
Through which — Heaven and earth, the windows of heaven being opened, and the fountains of the great deep broken up. The world that then was — The whole antediluvian race. Being overflowed with water,...