Quotation from Isa 40:6-8 (partly like the LXX, partly like the Hebrew).

For (διοτ). As in verse 16 (δια and οτ), "for that…

But the word of the Lord. In Isaiah 40:8, it is the word of our God. The meaning is not substantially changed.

Enduret…

The word which by the gospel is preached.—An incorrect rendering of the original tense. It literally runs, And this i…

Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your futile way of life received by traditi…

Peter now applies Isaiah’s words. Since Jesus is equivalent to the Lord in the OT, his utterances endure. So he stresses the specifically Christian…

But the word of God The Prophet does not show what the word of God is in itself, but what we ought to think of it. For since humanity is v…

But the word of the Lord endureth for ever
Though men die, and ministers of the word too, and everything in the worl…

Holy confidence in God as a Father and awe-filled fear of Him as a Judge harmonize; and to regard God always as a Judge endears Him to us as a Fath…