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God's Eternal Clock
Commentators agree this verse counters scoffers who see the 'delay' in Christ's return as a broken promise. The point isn't a literal math formula, but a profound truth: God is eternal and doesn't experience time as we do. What seems like an impossibly long wait to us is like a single day to Him. As one scholar notes, from God's perspective, it was only 'the day before yesterday that Christ died.' His promises are not forgotten; they operate on a divine, not human, timetable.
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2 Peter
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Peter 3:8
18th Century
Theologian
But, beloved, do not be ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years. This (2 Peter 3:8–9) is…
AT Robertson
On 2 Peter 3:8
Forget not this one thing (εν τουτο μη λανθανετω υμας). Rather, "let not this one thing escape you." For λανθανετω (present active…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Peter 3:8
19th Century
Bishop
Second Answer to the skeptical argument: Time is the condition of man’s thought and action, but not of God’s. His thoughts are not as our …
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Charles Spurgeon
On 2 Peter 3:8
19th Century
Preacher
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 2 Peter 3:8
Peter’s second argument against the false teachers’ scoffing at the “delay” of the Lord’s coming stems from Ps 90:4: “For a thousand years in your …
John Calvin
On 2 Peter 3:8
16th Century
Theologian
But be not ignorant of this one thing. He now turns to speak to the godly; and he reminds them that when the coming of Christ is the subje…
John Gill
On 2 Peter 3:8
17th Century
Pastor
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing
Here the apostle addresses the saints he writes to, and for whom he had a tend…
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 …