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A Deliberate Blindness
Commentators stress that the scoffers' ignorance is not accidental but a willful choice. The Greek phrase suggests they "deliberately forget" or "voluntarily blind their eyes" to the historical fact of God's judgment in the Flood. This highlights that rejecting God's truth is often a matter of the will, not just a lack of evidence.
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2 Peter
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Peter 3:5
18th Century
Theologian
For this they willingly are ignorant of. The Greek is lanyanei gar autouv touto yelontav. There is some considerable variety in t…
AT Robertson
On 2 Peter 3:5
For this they wilfully forget (λανθανε γαρ αυτους τουτο θελοντας). Literally, "for this escapes them being willing." See this use …
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Peter 3:5
19th Century
Bishop
For this they willingly are ignorant of.—Literally, For this escapes their notice of their own will. They volunt…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 2 Peter 3:5–7
19th Century
Preacher
For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the wa…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 2 Peter 3:5
But they “deliberately [lit., willingly; GK 2527] forget” the great Flood, when God intervened in history by destroying the world. What they forget…
John Calvin
On 2 Peter 3:5
16th Century
Theologian
For this they willingly are ignorant of. By one argument only he refutes the scoff of the ungodly: namely, that the world once perished by…
John Gill
On 2 Peter 3:5
17th Century
Pastor
For this they willingly are ignorant of Namely, what follows; for as these men were such as had professed Christianity, a…
Matthew Henry
On 2 Peter 3:5–10
17th Century
Minister
If these scoffers had considered the dreadful vengeance with which God swept away a whole world of ungodly men at once, surely they would not have …