彼得后书 2:4 RCUVSS

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:4

For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;Peter with this verse cited some historical examples of God's judgment and condemnation of the wicked (noting also that the righteous were spared), these being: (1) the example of the sinning angels; (2) the case of Noah and his generation; (3) the example of Sodom and Gomorrah; and (4) the deliverance of Lot. It is an unqualified mystery to this writer... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 2:4

2 Peter 2:4. For if God spared not the angels— Some think the sense is suspended till we come to 2Pe 2:9 and the reddition to be looked for there; that is, If God spared not the angels who sinned, &c. the Lord also knoweth how to deliver the godly, &c. This may possibly be the connection; or, if the words ει γαρ are taken affirmatively for since—inasmuch as—there will be no occasion for a reddition afterwards. From this verse to the end of 2Pe 2:8 are contained three remarkable... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Peter 2:4

4. if—The apodosis or consequent member of the sentence is not expressed, but is virtually contained in 2 Peter 2:9. If God in past time has punished the ungodly and saved His people, He will be sure to do so also in our days (compare end of 2 Peter 2:9- :). angels—the highest of intelligent creatures (compare with this verse, 2 Peter 2:9- :), yet not spared when they sinned. hell—Greek, "Tartarus": nowhere else in New Testament or the Septuagint: equivalent to the usual Greek, "Gehenna." Not... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Peter 2:4

We could translate the "ifs" in 2 Peter 2:4; 2 Peter 2:6-7 "since." Each one is a first class condition in Greek. A first class condition assumes for the sake of the argument that what the writer wrote is true. In this case each statement describes a situation that is indeed true to reality.Angels are in many respects superior to humans, yet God judged even them for sinning by consigning them to tartarosas (hell). This is the only reference to "Tartarus" in the Bible. This term evidently... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Peter 2:4-10

B. The Consequences of False Teaching 2:4-10aPeter next described the consequences that follow false teaching to help his readers see the importance of avoiding it."Verses 4-10a form one long, complex conditional sentence; 2 Peter 2:4-8 form the conditional statement, and 2 Peter 2:9-10 a the conclusion. This long sentence skillfully combines the different aspects involved in God’s judicial dealings with mankind." [Note: Hiebert, Second Peter . . ., p. 95.] "Now Peter will give us three... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:1-22

Warning Against a Threatened Plague of Brutal False TeachersAs of old there were false as well as true prophets, so it will be now. This leads the Apostle to speak about the false teachers, who if they have not already begun-he expects will trouble his readers. Prophets were important persons in the early Church: cp. Acts 11:27; 1 Corinthians 12:28.; 1 Corinthians 14:29.; Ephesians 2:20; Ephesians 3:5; Ephesians 4:11. These teachers, who had doubtless been baptised, claimed, it would seem, to... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Peter 2:4

(4) For if God.—The sentence has no proper conclusion. The third instance of God’s vengeance is so prolonged by the addition respecting Lot, that the apodosis is wanting, the writer in his eagerness having lost the thread of the construction. The three instances here are in chronological order (wanton angels, Flood, Sodom and Gomorrha), while those in Jude are not (unbelievers in the wilderness, impure angels, Sodom and Gomorrha). Both arrangements are natural—this as being chronological, that... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Peter 2:4-8

(4-8) Three instances of divine vengeance, proving that great wickedness never goes unpunished. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 2 Peter 2:1-22

2 Peter 2:22 'I entered on this farm,' Burns wrote to Dr. Moore (2nd Aug. 1787), 'with a full resolution, "Come, go to, I will be wise!" I read farming books, I calculated crops, I attended markets, and in short, in spite of the devil and the world and the flesh, I believe I should have been a wise man, but the first year, from unfortunately buying bad seed, the second from a late harvest, we lost half our crops. This overset all my wisdom, and I returned, "like the dog to his vomit, and the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:1-9

Chapter 23 THE LORD KNOWETH HOW TO DELIVER2 Peter 2:1-9THIS second chapter contains much more of a direct description of the heretical teaching and practices from which the converts were in danger, and is full of warning and comfort, both alike drawn from that Old Testament prophecy to the light of which St. Peter has just been urging them to take heed. The chapter has many features and much of its language in common with the Epistle of St. Jude. But the opening of the chapter seems a suitable... read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:4

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 2:4

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Peter 2:4

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Peter 2:4

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Peter 2:4-10

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 2:1-22

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Peter 2:4

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Peter 2:4-8

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 2 Peter 2:1-22

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 2:1-9

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