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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:10

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 come as a thief in the night: he will come "in the night", which may be literally understood; for as his first coming was in the night; see Luke 2:8 ; so perhaps his second coming may be in the night season; or figuratively, when it will be a time of great darkness; when there will be little... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:11

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, whether of nature, or art; and, since nothing is more certain than such a dissolution of all things, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness ? not as the scoffers and profane sinners, who put away this evil day far from them, but as men, who have their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:12

Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God ,.... The same with the day of the Lord, 2 Peter 3:10 , and so the Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions here read; and it intends the day of Christ's second coming to judgment, and so is a proof of the deity of Christ; and is called "the day of God", in distinction from man's day, or human judgment, 1 Corinthians 4:3 , which is often fallacious; whereas the judgment of God is according to truth; and because in that day Christ will... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:13

Nevertheless we, according to his promise ,.... Or promises, as the Alexandrian copy, and the Vulgate Latin version; namely those in Isaiah 65:17 ; look for new heavens and a new earth ; not figuratively, the world to come in distinction from the Jewish world or state; a new church state, the Gospel dispensation, with new ordinances, as baptism and the Lord's supper, all legal ceremonies and ordinances being gone, and everything new; for these things had taken place already, and were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:14

Wherefore, beloved, seeing ye look for these things ,.... For the burning of the heavens and the earth, for the coming of Christ, and for the new heavens and new earth, be diligent that ye may be found of him ; Christ, or αυτω , "in him", as in Philemon 3:9 ; for such as are in Christ will have an undoubted right to the new heavens and the new earth, and will certainly dwell in them, because they will be found not in their own righteousness, but in the righteousness of Christ: or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:15

And account that the longsuffering of our Lord ,.... Not his longsuffering towards the wicked, and his forbearance with them, for that is not the means of, nor the way to, nor does it issue in, their salvation, but in their sorer punishment and greater damnation, see Romans 2:4 ; but towards the elect, as in 2 Peter 3:9 ; whom he bears much and long with before conversion, while in their sins, and in a state of unregeneracy, and waits to be gracious to them, as he is in their calling,... read more

Adam Clarke

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

Be not ignorant - Though they are wilfully ignorant, neglect not ye the means of instruction. One day is with the Lord as a thousand years - That is: All time is as nothing before him, because in the presence as in the nature of God all is eternity; therefore nothing is long, nothing short, before him; no lapse of ages impairs his purposes, nor need he wait to find convenience to execute those purposes. And when the longest period of time has passed by, it is but as a moment or... read more

Adam Clarke

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

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 had forgotten to fulfill it, or had not convenient time or leisure." To some such mocking the apostle seems to refer: and he immediately shows the reason why deserved punishment is not inflicted on a guilty world. But is long-suffering - It is not slackness, remissness, nor want of due displacence at... read more

Adam Clarke

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

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 above, the whole atmosphere, in which all the terrestrial vapours are lodged; and as water itself is composed of two gases, eighty-five parts in weight of oxygen, and fifteen of hydrogen, or two parts in volume of the latter, and one of the former; (for if these quantities be put together, and several... read more

Adam Clarke

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

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 terraqueous globe, consequently they may enter again into the composition of a new system; and therefore the apostle says, 2 Peter 3:13 ; : we look for new heavens and a new earth - the others being decomposed, a new system is to be formed out of their materials. There is a wonderful philosophic propriety in the words... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 3:15

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

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

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

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

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