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2 PETER 3:10 eu`reqh,setai {D}
At the close of ver. 2 Peter 3:10 the extant witnesses present a wide
variety of readings, none of which seems to be original. The oldest
reading, and the one which bes...
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Verse 10. _THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME_] See Matthew 24:43, to which
the apostle seems to allude.
_THE HEAVENS SHALL PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE_] As the _heavens_
mean here, and in the passages...
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BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD - The day of the Lord Jesus. That is, the day
in which he will be manifested. It is called his day, because he will
then be the grand and prominent object as the Judge of all....
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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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Moreover the Lord is not really slow to fulfil His promise; He does
not reckon time as men reckon. His seeming slowness is not the
manifestation of His impotence, but of His long-suffering love (_cf._...
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THE PRINCIPLES OF PREACHING (2 Peter 3:1-2)...
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IN THE NIGHT. The texts omit. Compare 1 Thessalonians 5:2; 1
Thessalonians 5:4.
WITH. GREAT NOISE. with. rushing sound. Greek. _rhoizedon._ Only here.
ELEMENTS. See Galatians 1:4
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_But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night_ The
confidence of the Apostle that this will be the end of the history of
the human race is not shaken by the seeming "slackness" in its
app...
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ἭΞΕΙ ΔῈ ἩΜΈΡΑ ΚΥΡΊΟΥ ὩΣ ΚΛΈΠΤΗΣ. This
must have been a commonplace of Apocalyptic prophecy. We have the
image in the eschatological discourse of our Lord, Matthew 24:43 “If
the goodman of the house ha...
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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...
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ΉΞΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΉΚ (G2240) приходить. Гл.
стоит в начале предложения и этим
сильно выделяется (Kelly),
ΡΟΙΖΗΔΌΝ (G4500) _adv._ с шипением и треском.
Это звукоподражательное слово,
обозначающ...
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DISCOURSE: 2428
THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
2 Peter 3:10. The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night;
in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the
elements shall melt with f...
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BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME— The last great day of general
judgment will come, when it is least of all expected. See Matthew
24:43. The _passing away of the heavens,_ here means the same as by
t...
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2 PETER 3:10 BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF; IN THE
WHICH THE HEAVENS SHALL PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE, AND THE ELEMENTS
SHALL BE DISSOLVED WITH FERVENT HEAT, AND THE EARTH AND THE WOR...
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But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the
which the heavens shall pass away with a But the day of the Lord will
come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pa...
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VERSE 10. BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF.
The day of the Lord's coming is certain, and when it comes it will be
as unexpected as the coming of one to steal.
IN THE WHICH THE HEAVENS SH...
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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...
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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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AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT] cp. 1 Thessalonians 5:2. RV 'as a thief': cp.
Matthew 24:43. All through this passage the Apostle has in mind the
prophecy of our Lord which is recorded in that chapter THE EL...
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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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Jesus will not continue to wait for ever. Jesus said that people would
not know when would return (Luke 12:39-40). People do not expect a
thief to come suddenly to their house in the middle of the nig...
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The certainty and possible nearness of Christ’s coming is the basis
of the preceding warning and of the exhortations which follow.
AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT. — Suddenly and without warning. The words
ar...
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CHAPTER 29
"WHAT MANNER OF PERSONS OUGHT YE TO BE?"
2 Peter 3:10
THE Apostle, ever earnest to put the brethren in mind of the things
they had heard or read, never fails to follow his own precept. Hi...
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_A further argument to explain the apparent delay_. “One thing
beloved, you must not forget. The sense of the duration of time in the
Divine Mind is not the same as in the human. One day is the same t...
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ἡμέρα Κυρίου. No distinction is made between the Day of
the Lord, and the Coming of Christ. This is remarkable, as excluding
any idea of millenarian teaching, which speedily made its appearance
in the...
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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 "DAY OF THE LORD"
There are numerous references to the "day of the Lord" in the New
Testament (1 Corinthians 1:8; 1 Peter 1:6; 1 Thessalonians 5:2;...
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(10) But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the
which the heavens shall pass away with a great (d) noise, and the
elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the w...
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The heavens, &c. He puts the faithful in mind not to regard these
profane scoffers, but to be convinced of the truths revealed, and that
the world shall be destroyed a second time by fire. Reflect tha...
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"But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with
the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (9) The
Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men coun...
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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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10._But the day of the Lord will come. _This has been added, that the
faithful might be always watching, and not promise to-morrow to
themselves. For we all labor under two very different evils — too...
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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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BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT,.... That
is, the Lord will come in that day, which he has fixed, according to
his promise, than which nothing is more certain; and he will co...
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But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the
which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements
shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that...
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_But_ Notwithstanding the long-suffering of God; _the day of the Lord_
The day of the consummation of all things, and of final judgment;
_will come_, and that _as a thief in the night_ Because thieves...
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THE DAY OF THE LORD; when he will come to judgment.
AS A THIEF; suddenly, unexpectedly....
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BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT, IN THE
WHICH THE HEAVENS SHALL PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE, AND THE ELEMENTS
SHALL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT, THE EARTH ALSO AND THE WORKS THAT...
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The answer of St. Peter, showing the certainty of the Lord's return:...
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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 3:10 ‘But the day of the Lord will come like. thief, in
which the heavens will pass away with. roar and the elements will be
destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be...
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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...
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BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD; the day of judgment is here called _the day
of the Lord_ by way of eminence, as _the great day,_ JUDGES 1:6, and
the _great day of God Almighty,_ REVELATION 16:14, and _the da...
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Tertullian Against Hermogenes
the belief that everything was made from nothing will be impressed
upon us by that ultimate dispensation of God which will bring back all
things to nothing. For "the ver...
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2 Peter 3:10 But G1161 day G2250 Lord G2962 come G2240 (G5692) as
G5613 thief G2812 in G1722 night...
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THE REASON FOR DELAY AND THE FINAL FULFILMENT (2 PETER 3:8)....
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‘But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in the which the
heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be
dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in...
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2 Peter 3:10. BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD; the day which in 2 Peter 3:12
is called ‘the day of God,' and elsewhere ‘the day of Christ' (2
Thessalonians 2:2), ‘the day of the Lord Jesus' ...
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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...
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THE DAY OF THE LORD
(ημερα κυριου). So Peter in Acts 2:20 (from Joel 3:4) and
Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:4;...
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2 Peter 3:10
The Suddenness of the Advent.
This truth of the suddenness of the advent of Christ we do not perhaps
take sufficiently to heart; but if it be a truth that the second
advent of Christ wi...
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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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_The day of the Lord will come as a thief._
THE DAY OF THE LORD
I. The text first points us to a period advancing rapidly upon us, in
the future; and as such differs from any other which may have ma...
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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...
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2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 3:10 THE DAY OF THE LORD. God’s judgment
will not be delayed forever. When Christ returns it will be sudden and
without warning, like a THIEF. THE HEAVENS (the sky)
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_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 misrepresen...
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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 5:5; 1 Thessalonians 5:2; 2 Corinthians 1:14; 2 Peter
3:12;...
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The day of the Lord. Compare the same phrase in Peter's sermon, Acts
2:20. It occurs only in these two passages and 1 Thessalonians 5:2.
See 1 Corinthians 1:8;...
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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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But the day of the Lord will come as a thief — Suddenly,
unexpectedly. In which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise
— Surprisingly expressed by the very sound of the original word. The
elem...
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Our apostle having asserted, that this solemn day of judging the Jews,
at the destruction of Jerusalem first, and then of all mankind at the
end of the world, will certainly come; he next shews the ma...