expressing dissolution, like παρελεύσον- ται, or Ἀνθήσεται. εὑρεθήσεται is found in an absolute sense in Clement, Cor. ix. 3 (of Enoch) οὐχ εὑρέθη αὐτοῦ θάνα- τος, “ his death was not brought to light”. In 2 Clem. xvi. (see textual note) φανήσ- erat is the paraphrase of εὑρεθήσεται (cf. Introd. pp. 90 f.).
Vv. 11-16. The ethical value of the Parousia expectation. ‘‘Seeing then that all these things are to be dissolved, how great an effect it ought to exercise on our whole moral and religious life, as we look forward to and hasten the com- ing of the day of God. The skies shall be set on fire and dissolved, and the ele- ments shall melt with fiercest heat, but we look for new skies and a new earth according to His promise, in which righteousness shail finda home. Where- fore, beloved, with such expectations, endeavour to be found in peace, spotless and blameless. Do not reckon the long- suffering of our Lord as an opportunity for licence, but as a means of salvation, as our beloved brother Paul wrote you in the wisdom granted to him. He indeed spoke in all his letters of these things, in which there are some things hard to be understood, which ignorant and unstable persons wrest, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.”
Ver. 11. λυομένων. Present used for a future. Mayor translates ‘are in pro- cess of dissolution,” as though the prin- ciple of φθορά were already at work ; but’ this is a conception foreign to the mind of the writer, who uses it only ina moral significance. Nature is ‘‘ reserved” (θησαυρίζεσθαι) for destruction. Dis- solution is the goal in sight. ποταπούς. ‘““ What sort of men.’’ A later form of ποδαπός. ὑπάρχειν implies not merely existence, but existential character. ἀναστροφαῖς καὶ evoeBelais. The use