2 Peter 3:8-18 WEB

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 2 Peter 3:14

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.Labour that whenever he cometh ye may be found in peace - May meet him without terror, being sprinkled with his blood, and sanctified by his Spirit, so as to be without spot and blameless. Isaiah 65:17; Isaiah 66:22. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 2 Peter 3:15

And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;And account the longsuffering of the Lord salvation — Not only designed to lead men to repentance, but actually conducing thereto: a precious means of saving many more souls.As our beloved brother Paul also hath written to you — This refers not only to the single sentence preceding, but to all that went before. St. Paul had written to... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 2 Peter 3:16

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.As also in all his epistles — St. Peter wrote this a little before his own and St. Paul's martyrdom. St. Paul therefore had now written all his epistles; and even from this expression we may learn that St. Peter had read them all, perhaps sent to him by St. Paul himself.... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 2 Peter 3:18

But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.But grow in grace — That is, in every Christian temper. There may be, for a time, grace without growth; as there may be natural life without growth. But such sickly life, of soul or body, will end in death, and every day draw nigher to it. Health is the means of both natural and spiritual growth. If the remaining evil of our fallen nature be not daily mortified, it will,... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:8

8. Our apostle now returns to the all-important caution in regard to time. It is on this point that the sceptical scoffers will fix. Remember that God’s hours are ages. Note on Acts 1:7. One day… a thousand years In the prophetic predictions of the second advent the Spirit speaks by the arithmetic of God, in which the terms soon, quickly, humanly indicating a few days, divinely allow a few ages. Psalms 90:0. And now the question may well arise, Why has inspiration thus used phrases of... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:9

9. Slack Behind time; like a rail-train that does not “come to time.” The divine programme is not unfulfilled because the nearness of the advent does not fulfil the human words. Is longsuffering He suffers long. The apostle here illustrates God’s long delay with the world by his long delay with the impenitent. He spares a world as he spares a guilty man, in hopes of a result dear to the divine heart. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:10

10. Will come With an emphatic will. For what we may call the Apocalypse of St. Paul, we look to 1Co 15:22-57 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10; and 2 Thessalonians 2:3-8. And so we find the Apocalypse of St. Peter in this chapter, 5-13. But it was reserved for St. John to furnish the great Apocalypse of the New Testament. All three supply special points, but all three agree in the great sublime whole. As a thief With a sudden surprise to the sceptic scoffers. It will catch them in the midst of... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:11

11. Two verses our apostle now interposes to warn his readers of the personal holiness they ought to maintain in view of so great a destruction. Conversation Conduct. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:12

12. Looking for Maintaining expectation of; unlike the scoffers, who denied and forgot. Hasting unto Intensely earnest in regard to. Heavens The atmospheric elements. Dissolved Decomposed. Elements Material constituents. Melt By calorical separation of particles. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:13

13. Nevertheless Our hopes do not, like the scoffers’, go down with the old earth; our faith looks for the new. According to his promise God’s one great promise of eternal life and glory for the elect in Christ. All the prophecies of the Old Testament presuppose it; and the New Testament is one great expression of it. The phraseology, only, of Isaiah 65:17, is used here to describe a greater renewal than Isaiah was enabled explicitly to express. New heavens and a new earth Compare... read more

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 2 Peter 3:14

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 2 Peter 3:16

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 2 Peter 3:18

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:8

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:9

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:10

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:11

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:12

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 3:13

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