The ancient world (αρχαιου κοσμου). Genitive case after εφεισατο (with ε understood) repeated (the second example, the deluge). Th…

And spared not the old world. The world before the flood. The argument here is that He cut off that wicked race, and thus showed that He w…

And spared not the old world.—The fact that the Flood is taken as the second instance of divine vengeance gives us no clu…

Which some today say could not be consistent with the acts of a God of love. Their imaginary deity, from whom they have taken away every glorious a…

Peter’s second example is the Flood. He has referred to this in his first letter (1 Peter 3:18–22) and will do so again in the next cha…

The old world. The meaning of what he says is that God, after having drowned the human race, formed again, as it were, a new world. This i…

And spared not the old world
In distinction from the present world, that now is; which was, as it were, formed anew …

Although the way of error is a hurtful way, many are always ready to walk in it. Let us take care that we give no opportunity to the enemy to blasp…