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In other places, cr vpovcQcu applies rather to a dry body, xaucov<s6ai to a moist one.
13. Kcuvoiig, new) A great mystery, new heavens and a new earth. It is something external to God and external to man.1 — promise) ver. 4. — h oTg dixuiocvvy} xaro/xs/^ in which dwelleth righteous- ness) Therefore they shall not grow old. There will be a complete separation between good and evil, Matt. iii. 12, xiii. 30. The inha- bitants who ought to be righteous , ver. 11, compared with 6 and 7. In the new world, which comprises the heaven and the earth, dwelleth righteousness. The new world is one whole : in it (the whole) dwelleth righteousness. That part, which had been pol- luted by unrighteousness, shall be freed from pollution.
14. n poffdoxuvreg, expecting) with trembling and with joy. This word has a wide meaning* — aurw, of Him) God.
15. ^urripiav fiysfode, account as salvation) although those mockers account it slackness , slowness , ver. 9. — xaQug, even as) This has refer- ence to the whole subject treated of up to this time. Comp. <npl rovruvy respecting these things , ver. 16. — 6 aycc^rog adtXpbg, our beloved brother) Paul has not praised Peter ; but yet Peter praises Paul, showing that he was not offended with him, although he was sometimes reproved by him, and was far surpassed by him in the work of the Lord : respecting the love of Paul towards Peter there could be no doubt. — v/uTv, to you) Hebrews. He intimates that there was the less need for him to write to them at length, and expresses his approval of the epistle of Paul. But Paul had written to this purport respecting the completion of the age, which was then nigh at hand, Ileb. i. 1, ix. 26, x. 25, 37, and to the same effect in his other epistles.
16. ’Ey nuauig, in all) Peter wrote this epistle very shortly before his own martyrdom and that of Paul. Therefore Paul had written nearly all his epistles long before, even the epistles to those to whom Peter writes. Peter therefore read all the epistles of Paul, which were perhaps sent to him by Paul himself : nor did he take it ill, that Paul had written respecting Peter in such terms as he had to the Galatians, ch. ii. Who can doubt, that the epistles of Paul were, at an early period, collected into one body ? — mpi ro-bruv, concerning these things) Concerning the coming of the Lord, which is delayed through His long-suffering, but yet is near and sudden,
1 The promise is not merely of some new manifestation of God, or of some change in man, but of something external ; not of that which is subjective, but objective. — T.
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