As this world with all it contains is to be burnt up, none should place their hearts upon it, or seek it as their chief good; but all should place their affections on things above, and lay up their treasure in heaven.
2 PETER 3:11 tou,twn ou[twj {B} Although the reading tou,twn ou=n is supported by representatives of both the Alexandrian and the Western types of text, the Committee was inclined to prefer the readi...
Verse 11. _ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE DISSOLVED_] They will all be _separated_, all _decomposed_; but none of them _destroyed_. And as they are the original matter out of which God formed the terraque...
SEEING THEN THAT ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE DISSOLVED - Since this is an undoubted truth. WHAT MANNER OF PERSONS OUGHT YE TO BE IN ALL HOLY CONVERSATION AND GODLINESS - In holy conduct and piety. That...
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)...
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._...
THE PRINCIPLES OF PREACHING (2 Peter 3:1-2)...
Since these things are going to be dissolved like that, what kind of people ought you to be, living a life of constant holiness and true piety, you who are eagerly awaiting and doing your best to hast...
DISSOLVED. See "melt", 2 Peter 3:10. BE. See Luke 9:48. CONVERSATION. See 1 Peter 1:15. GODLINESS. See 1 Timothy 2:2
_Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved_ Literally, SEEING THEREFORE THAT ALL THESE THINGS ARE BEING DISSOLVED. The Greek participle is in the present tense, and is probably used to conv...
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...
ΛΥΟΜΈΝΩΝ possibly implies that creation is even now declining to its fall: but compare the present tenses of τήκεται, κατοικεῖ below. ΠΟΤΑΠΟΎΣ, a late form and use: ποδαπός “of what nation” is the cl...
ΛΥΟΜΈΝΩΝ _praes. pass. part._ (causal) ΛΎΩ (G3089) распускать. _Gen. abs. Praes._ либо представляет собой футуристический _praes._, либо изображает процесс растворения (RWP). ΠΟΤΑΠΌΣ (G4217) какой, к...
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...
SEEING THEN THAT ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE DISSOLVED— Some would read this and the following verse thus; _As then all these things are to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be?—Even such,...
2 PETER 3:11-12 SEEING THAT THESE THINGS ARE THUS ALL TO BE DISSOLVED, WHAT MANNER OF PERSONS OUGHT YE TO BE IN ALL HOLY LIVING AND GODLINESS, LOOKING FOR AND EARNESTLY DESIRING THE COMING OF THE DAY...
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, THEN. So 'Aleph (') A, Vulgate; but B C substitute ( houtos (G377...
VERSE 11. SEEING, THEN, THAT ALL THESE THINGS. This is an interrogatory propounded to the brethren. All these things being sure to occur, what kind of persons ought we to be? The answer is plain. Pur...
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...
3:11 conversation (g-16) godliness, (g-18) Conversation (manner of life) and godliness are both plural in Greek....
CONVERSATION] RV 'living.'...
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...
SEEING THEN THAT ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE DISSOLVED. — For “then” we ought probably to read “thus,” _seeing that all these things are thus to be dissolved._ The original is present in form, but right...
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...
λυομένων. Present used for a future. Mayor translates “are in process of dissolution,” as though the principle of φθορά were already at work; but this is a conception foreign to the mind of the writer...
_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...
“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 "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;...
(11) [Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and godliness, (11) An exhortation to purity of life, setting before...
Seeing then that all these things are to be dissolved, that the world, and all things in the world, shall pass in a short time, set not your affections upon them: let your life and conversation be hol...
"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...
Heaven and earth, he says, shall pass away for our sakes; is it meet, then, for us to be engrossed with the things of earth, and not, on the contrary, to attend to a holy and godly life? The corruptio...
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...
[SEEING] THEN [THAT] ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE DISSOLVED,.... By fire; the heaven with all its host, sun, moon, and stars, clouds, meteors, and fowls of the air; the earth, and all that is upon it, wh...
_Seeing_ then _that_ all these things shall be dissolved, what manner _of persons_ ought ye to be in _all_ holy conversation and godliness, Ver. 11. _What manner of men_] ποταπους, even to admiration...
_Seeing then that all these things_ Which our eyes behold; _shall be dissolved_ And we shall be spectators of their dissolution, being raised from the dead before, or at the time of, its taking place;...
The attitude of the Christians:...
SEEING, THEN, THAT ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE DISSOLVED, WHAT MANNER OF PERSONS OUGHT YE TO BE IN ALL HOLY CONVERSATION AND GODLINESS,...
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 3:11 ‘Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,'_ ‘SINCE ALL THESE THINGS ARE TO BE DESTROYED IN THIS WAY' -‘A...
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 THEN THAT ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE DISSOLVED; seeing the coming of the Lord will be so terrible, as to bring with it the consumption of the world, and the destruction of these things here belo...
2 Peter 3:11 Therefore G3767 all G3956 things G5130 dissolved G3089 (G5746) manner G4217 ought G1163 (G5748) you...
‘Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy manner of living and godliness,' And what should be the response of believers to these facts? The...
THE REASON FOR DELAY AND THE FINAL FULFILMENT (2 PETER 3:8)....
2 Peter 3:11. SEEING THAT THESE THINGS ARE THUS ALL DISSOLVING. The rendering which is sustained by the best authorities differs from the Received Text in omitting the ‘these' of the A. V. and inserti...
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...
TO BE DISSOLVED (λυομενων). Present passive participle (genitive absolute with τουτων παντων, these things all) of λυω, either the futuristic present or the process of dissolution presented.WHAT MA...
2 Peter 3:11 Advent. I. The Apostles lived, and prayed, and laboured in the continual expectation that Christ would come again to them, and speedily, and that this promise would be fulfilled in their...
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...
SINCE. "Since you know the prediction that all these things will be destroyed in this way, what should be your response??? You should always be prepared for the Lord to Come!!!...
_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 3:1 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...
_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...
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 Peter 1:15; 1 Peter 2:12; 1 Thessalonians 1:5; 1 Timothy 3:16;...
To be dissolved [λ υ ο μ ε ν ω ν]. So Rev. But the participle is present; and the idea is rather, are in process of dissolution. The word and all therein is essentially transitory. Ought ye to be [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...
Seeing then that all these things are dissolved — To the eye of faith it appears as done already. All these things — Mentioned before; all that are included in that scriptural expression, "the heavens...
These words are St. Peter's practical improvement of the foregoing doctrine, concerning the certain, sudden and terrible judgment of Christ to come. If the whole frame of heaven and earth shall be so...