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by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
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The Flood as Precedent
Commentators unanimously agree that Peter's primary point is to use the Genesis flood as undeniable proof against scoffers. Their claim that 'all things continue as they were' is demonstrably false because God has already intervened to judge the world once. This past destruction by water serves as a powerful precedent, showing that God can and will judge the world again.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Whereby. di wn. Through which, or by means of which. The pronoun here is in the plural number, and there has been much difference…
By which means (δι' ων). The two waters above or the water and the word of God. Mayor against the MSS. reads δι' ου (singular) and…
19th Century
Anglican
Whereby. The meaning of this is much disputed. The original literally signifies, by means of which things. But what thing…
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Baptist
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…
But they “deliberately [lit., willingly; GK 2527] forget” the great Flood, when God intervened in history by destroying the world. What they forget…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Whereby the world that then was The old world, as it is called in (2 Peter 2:5) ; and as the Ethiopic ve…
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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 …
