Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
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Gill's Exposition
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God,.... The same with the day of the Lord, Pe2 3:10, and so the Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions here read; and it intends the day of Christ's…
Barnes' Notes
Looking for - Not knowing when this may occur, the mind should be in that state which constitutes “expectation;” that is, a belief that it will occur, and a condition of mind in which we would not be…
Adam Clarke
The heavens being on fire - See on Pe2 3:10. (note). It was an ancient opinion among the heathens that the earth should be burnt up with fire; so Ovid, Met., lib. i. v. 256.
Esse quoque in fatis…
The apostle, having instructed them in the doctrine of Christ's second coming,
I. Takes occasion thence to exhort them to purity and godliness in their whole conversation: all the truths which are…
Cambridge Bible
looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God The English versions follow the Vulgate and Luther in this rendering. It is doubtful, however, whether the Greek verb for "hasten," followed…
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