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2 PETER 3:9 eivj u`ma/j {A}
Although the preposition dia, is widely supported (it is read by a A Y
33 630 vg syrph, h copsa, bomss eth Speculum _al_), the Committee
preferred eivj,...
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Verse 9. _THE LORD IS NOT SLACK_] They probably in their _mocking_
said, "Either God had made no such promise to judge the world, destroy
the earth, and send ungodly men to perdition; or if he had, he...
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THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE - That is, it should not
be inferred because His promise seems to be long delayed that
therefore it will fail. When people, after a considerable lapse of
t...
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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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Beloved, you must not shut your eyes to this one fact that with the
Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.
It is not that God is dilatory in fulfilling his promise, as so...
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IS NOT SLACK. does not delay. See 1 Timothy 3:15.
CONCERNING. App-17.
SOME MEN. App-124.
COUNT. reckon. Same word "account", 2 Peter 3:15.
SLACKNESS. Greek. _bradutes._ Only here.
TO US-WARD. tow...
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_The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count
slackness_ We enter here on the third answer, and it rests on the
purpose which was working through what men looked on as a delay in th...
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ΒΡΑΔΎΝΕΙ with a genitive only here: it is compared with the
use of ἁμαρτάνω, ὑστερεῖν, λείπεσθαι.
ΜΑΚΡΟΘΥΜΕΙ͂. Cf. 1 Peter 3:20 ἀπειθήσασιν
ὅτε�.
ΕἸΣ ὙΜΑ͂Σ. Evidence is divided here both as to the
p...
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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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DISCOURSE: 2427
GOD’S FORBEARANCE
2 Peter 3:8. _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.
The Lord is not slack c...
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THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE— He may be called slow
or slack, who has it in his power, and yet does not perform a thing at
the proper time; but that cannot be said of God, who is perfe...
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2 PETER 3:8-9 BUT FORGET NOT THIS ONE THING, BELOVED, THAT ONE DAY IS
WITH THE LORD AS A THOUSAND YEARS, AND A THOUSAND YEARS AS ONE DAY.
THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE, AS SOME COUNT SL...
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The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count
slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any
should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
SLACK - tardy,...
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VERSE 9. THE LORD IS NOT SLACK.
What God has said, or what he has promised to do as to the time in
which he will accomplish, the same must not be measured as men measure
time. His delay simply evince...
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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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3:9 willing (f-19) 'Purposing,' as James 1:18 ....
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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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NOT WILLING] RV 'not wishing'; in spite of this different word we are
reminded of 1 Timothy 2:4....
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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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God will always keep his promises. Many people thought that Jesus
should have returned already. But Peter explained that God is willing
to wait. He is not slow, as people may think. But he is patient....
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_Third Answer_ — a practical one: Make good use of what to you seems
to be delay.
THE LORD IS NOT SLACK. — We are in doubt whether “the Lord”
means Christ or God the Father. In 2 Peter 3:8 “the Lord”...
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CHAPTER 28
THE LORD IS NOT SLACK
2 Peter 3:8
"ALL things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation,"
said the mockers. It was foolish, therefore, to believe in, or to
think of a judgm...
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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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οὐ βραδύνει … ἡγοῦνται. The idea that is
combated is that God has made a promise and has not kept it, He is,
however, better than His promise. The additional element of His
μακροθυμία is brought into...
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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_,...
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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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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...
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(8) The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count
slackness; (9) but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any
should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
(8) The...
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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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9._But the Lord is not slack, _or, _delays not_. He checks extreme and
unreasonable haste by another reason, that is, that the Lord defers
his coming that he might invite all mankind to repentance. Fo...
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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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THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE,.... The Syriac version
reads in the plural, "his promises", any of his promises; though the
words seem rather to regard the particular promise of Christ's...
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The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count
slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any
should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Ver. 9. _Not wi...
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_The Lord is not slack_ Ου βραδυνει, _does not delay_, or is
not slow; _concerning his promise_ To fulfil it, as if the time fixed
for the fulfilment of it were past; for it shall surely be fulfilled...
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HIS PROMISE; of a future judgment, when he will save his people and
destroy their enemies.
COUNT SLACKNESS; impute slackness to him, because he waits so long
before executing his threatened judgments...
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The answer of St. Peter, showing the certainty of the Lord's return:...
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THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE, AS SOME MEN COUNT
SLACKNESS, BUT IS LONG-SUFFERING TO US-WARD, NOT WILLING THAT ANY
SHOULD PERISH, BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE....
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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 3:9 ‘The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count
slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but
for all to come to repentance.'_
‘THE LORD IS NOT SLOW ABOU...
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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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THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE; i.e. doth not defer the
fulfilling of it beyond the appointed time, ISAIAH 60:22. AS SOME MEN
COUNT SLACKNESS; either the scoffers here mentioned, who, be...
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Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians
But may those that dishonoured them be forgiven through the grace of
Jesus Christ, "who wisheth not the death of the sinner, but his
repentance."[90]
Archel...
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2 Peter 3:9 Lord G2962 is G1019 not G3756 slack G1019 (G5719) promise
G1860 as G5613 some G5100 count...
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‘The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count
slackness; but is longsuffering towards you, not wishing that any
should perish, but that all should come to repentance.'
So in view of the...
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THE REASON FOR DELAY AND THE FINAL FULFILMENT (2 PETER 3:8)....
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2 Peter 3:9. THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE, AS SOME
COUNT SLACKNESS. The apparent delay in the performance of the Divine
engagement is capable of a still more assuring explanation. It h...
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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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IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE
(ου βραδυνε της επαγγελιας). Ablative case
επαγγελιας after βραδυνε (present active indicative
of βραδυνω, from βραδυς, slow), old verb, to be slow in,
to fall s...
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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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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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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 LORD IS NOT SLOW. "If the Lord seems slow to keep his promise to
destroy the world, it is certainly not because he cannot do it!!!"
INSTEAD. God acted in Christ to offer salvation to all mankind!...
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2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 3:8 ANY SHOULD PERISH. See note on 1 Tim.
2:4. Christians long for Christ’s return and the defeat of all evil.
Yet while the present period of history lasts, people may still t...
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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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_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 Peter 3:20; 1 Timothy 1:16; 1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Peter 3:15; Exodus
18:23
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Is not slack [ο υ β ρ α δ υ ν ε ι]. Only here and 1 Timothy
3:15. The word is literally to delay or loiter. So Septuagint, Genesis
43:10, "except we had lingered." Alford's rendering, is not tardy,
wo...
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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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The Lord is not slow — As if the time fixed for it were past.
Concerning his promise — Which shall surely be fulfilled in its
season. But is longsuffering towards us — Children of men. Not
willing tha...