William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 3:8-9
3:8-9 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 some people reckon dilatoriness; but it is that for your sakes he patiently withholds his hand, because he does not wish any to perish, but wishes all to take the way to repentance. There are in this passage three great truths on which to nourish the mind and rest the heart. (i) Time is... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Peter 3:9-10
We are here told that the Lord is not slack?he does not delay beyond the appointed time; as God kept the time that he had appointed for the delivering of Israel out of Egypt, to a day (Exod. 12:41), so he will keep to the time appointed in coming to judge the world. What a difference is there between the account which God makes and that which men make! Good men are apt to think God stays beyond the appointed time, that is, the time which they have set for their own and the church's... read more