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The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. Peter
Lumby, J. Rawson (Joseph Rawson) · 97,959 words · 133 reading sections
_The Lord Is Not Slack_
"But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness; but is long-suffering to youward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."--2 PETER …
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Such thoughts can minister to the faithful abundant consolation, and this was the desire of the Apostle. But they raise for all time large questions which can find no answer here, questions concerning the lot of those who pass from this brief day of life into the eternal world and have not known God's will, that they m…
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_Not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance._ We are wont to connect statements like this with the gracious messages of the New Testament. Yet some saints of earlier time felt all that St. Peter here teaches. The writer of Ecclesiasticus has some striking words. He is connecting God's me…
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"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye t…
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When thus considered his description contains many striking details. "The heavens will pass away." Christ Himself had so spoken, not of heaven only, but of the earth also. His word was the same which Peter employs, but He used it in the same sentence thus: "My word will not pass away" (Matt. xxiv. 35). That is the one …
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_Looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat._ The question of the mockers, "Where is the promise of His coming?" will not disturb those whose lives are thus made ready. That coming fills …
798 wordsSECTION 127"_Be Ye Stedfast, Unmovable._"
Hence St. Peter says, "According to His promise we look forward." And by using the same he identifies the new heavens and the new earth with the coming of the day of God. The believer heeds no more the mockers who ask, "Where is the promise of His coming?" He can look and lift up his head, assured that his redemption d…
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Peace is the bond which clasps together the brotherhood of Christ. But things which need a bond are prone to break asunder, and St. Paul marks the care which is needed in this matter by using the same word (σπουδάζοντες) which St. Peter employs here. And his list of the virtues which make for peace shows how much anxie…
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But his reference to St. Paul has much interest for other reasons. Among these brethren there would be current many memories of the great Apostle to whose labour the formation of these Churches was chiefly due. His name would for them add weight to St. Peter's admonitions. The mention of the wisdom Divinely given to hi…
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The "wresting" of which St. Peter here speaks may come either of the misuse of single terms, just as the apostles of licence put a wrong sense, for their own ends, on St. Paul's "liberty," or it may be the effect of severing a lesson from its occasion and its context. Such perversion also happened to St. Paul's doctrin…
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_To Him be the glory both now and for ever. Amen._ This is the end of the Apostles labour: that Christ may be glorified in His servants; that they may know Him here as the Way, the Truth, and the Life, hereafter as the High-priest of His people, but deigning to become the First-born among many brethren. For those who f…
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267 wordsSECTION 133*** End Of The Project Gutenberg Ebook The Expositor'S Bible: The Epistles Of St. Peter ***
_THE PSALMS_ By Rev. A. MACLAREN, D.D. Vol. I. _1 and 2 THESSALONIANS_ By Rev. JAMES DENNEY, B.D. _THE BOOK OF JOB_ By Rev. R. A. WATSON D.D. _EPHESIANS_ By Prof. G. G. FINDLAY, B.A. _THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN_ By Prof. M. DODS, D.D. Vol. II. _The ACTS of the APOSTLES_ By Prof. STOKES, D.D. Vol. II. _PHILIPPIA…
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