2 Peter 3:12
ContextNETBible | while waiting for and hastening 1 the coming of the day of God? 2 Because of this day, 3 the heavens will be burned up and 4 dissolve, and the celestial bodies 5 will melt away in a blaze! 6 |
XREF | Ps 50:3; Isa 2:1-22; Isa 34:4; Isa 64:1-12; Mic 1:4; 1Co 1:7; 1Co 1:8; Php 1:6; Tit 2:13; 2Pe 3:10; Jude 1:21; Re 6:13,14 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Or possibly, “striving for,” but the meaning “hasten” for σπουδάζω (spoudazw) is normative in Jewish apocalyptic literature (in which the coming of the Messiah/the end is anticipated). Such a hastening is not an arm-twisting of the divine volition, but a response by believers that has been decreed by God. 2 sn The coming of the day of God. Peter elsewhere describes the coming or parousia as the coming of Christ (cf. 2 Pet 1:16; 3:4). The almost casual exchange between “God” and “Christ” in this little book, and elsewhere in the NT, argues strongly for the deity of Christ (see esp. 1:1). 3 tn Grk “on account of which” (a subordinate relative clause in Greek). 4 tn Grk “being burned up, will dissolve.” 5 tn See note in v. 10 on “celestial bodies.” 6 tn Grk “being burned up” (see v. 10). |