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The Power of God's Word
Commentators emphasize that the same divine word that created the world, destroyed it with water, and now sustains it, is the very word that has decreed its future judgment by fire. This highlights God's absolute sovereignty over creation and its destiny.
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2 Peter
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Peter 3:7
18th Century
Theologian
But the heavens and the earth which are now. As they now exist. There is no difficulty here respecting what is meant by the word earth…
AT Robertson
On 2 Peter 3:7
That now are (νυν). "The now heavens" over against "the then world" (ο τοτε κοσμος verse 6).
By the same word
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Peter 3:7
19th Century
Bishop
By the same word.—Or, as some first-rate authorities read, by His word. The sense in either case is that the universe is …
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Charles Spurgeon
On 2 Peter 3:7
19th Century
Preacher
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition …
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 2 Peter 3:7
Peter’s reference to a future conflagration to destroy the present cosmos is highly unusual. The OT speaks of fire in the day of the Lord ([Referen…
John Calvin
On 2 Peter 3:7
16th Century
Theologian
But the heavens and the earth which are now. He does not infer this as the consequence; for his purpose was no other than to dispel the cr…
John Gill
On 2 Peter 3:7
17th Century
Pastor
But the heavens and the earth which are now
In being, in distinction from, and opposition to the heavens that were o…
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 …