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2 Peter 2, Dr. Constable's Expository Notes, Dr. Constable's Expository Notes provide Christians with deep insights into the Scriptures through thorough analysis and contextual understanding.
2 Peter 2:4. For if — Or since, as ει γαρ may be here rendered; God spared not the angels that sinned — “The angels seem to have been placed originally in a state of trial. Those who stood are called in Scripture, the holy angels.
Unless we accept the way of salvation by Jesus Christ our sin will find us out, and God will find our sin out, and he will cast us also down to the place prepared for the devil and his angels. Let the flatterers of to-day preach what they may, the Lord will punish men who live and die in their sins.
Summary. In the second chapter there is strong warning about false prophets and the filthy kind of life toward which the rejection of the truth leads. In closing the second chapter Peter gives a very powerful word picture of some brother or sister who falls away from the truth.
1. Read 2 Peter 1:1-4 and in your own words pull out the main thought of this passage. 2. How does Peter refer to himself in verse 1? 3. What is his wish for them in verse 2? 4. What has “His divine power” given to us, according to verse 3? 5. Explain the phrase “through the true knowledge of Him” in verse 3. 6.
He used the story of Sodom’s destruction to warn about the final judgment when He returns (Luke 17:29-32). The entire Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, reveals a God who will bring judgment on sinners, but who shows mercy to those who repent of their sins and trust in Him.
We have here the apodosis corresponding with the conditional sentence beginning at 2 Peter 2:4. The three examples cited by St. Peter show that the Lord knows (and with the Lord knowledge involves power) how to deliver the righteous and to punish the wicked. The Greek words for "godly" and "unjust" are both without the article.
