2 Peter 3:12

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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Word by word — the Greek

Word	Greek	Strong’s	Meaning
for	προσδοκῶντας prosdokōntas	G4328	to anticipate (in thought · verb — present active participle, accusative plural masculine
and	καὶ kai	G2532	and · conjunction
unto	σπεύδοντας speudontas	G4692	to "speed" ("study") · verb — present active participle, accusative plural masculine
coming	παρουσίαν parousian	G3952	a being near · noun — accusative singular feminine
day	ἡμέρας, hēmeras	G2250	day · noun — genitive singular feminine
God	θεοῦ theou	G2316	figuratively · noun — genitive singular masculine, a title
wherein	δι᾽ di᾽	G1223	through (in very wide applications · preposition
heavens	οὐρανοὶ ouranoi	G3772	the sky · noun — nominative plural masculine
fire	πυρούμενοι puroumenoi	G4448	to kindle · verb — present passive participle, nominative plural masculine
dissolved	λυθήσονται luthēsontai	G3089	to "loosen" (literally or figuratively) · verb — future passive indicative, 3rd person plural
and	καὶ kai	G2532	and · conjunction
elements	στοιχεῖα stoicheia	G4747	something orderly in arrangement · noun — nominative plural neuter
melt	τήκεται; tēketai	G5080	to liquefy · verb — present passive indicative, 3rd person singular
heat	καυσούμενα kausoumena	G2741	to set on fire · verb — present passive participle, nominative plural neuter

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Cross-references

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements sha…
Isaiah 34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as…
Micah 1:4 And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down…
Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Psalms 50:3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Isaiah 64:1-12 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
1 Corinthians 1:7-8 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Peter 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perditi…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 3:11–end

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 revealed in scripture should be improved for our advancement in practical godliness: this is the effect that knowledge must produce, or we are never the better for it. If you know these things, happy are you if you do them. Seeing all these things must be dissolved, how holy should we be, that are assured of it, departing from and dying to sin, that has so corrupted and defiled all the visible creation that there is an absolute need of its dissolution! All that was made for man's use is subject to…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Peter 3:12

hasting unto--with the utmost eagerness desiring [WAHL], praying for, and contemplating, the coming Saviour as at hand. The Greek may mean "hastening (that is, urging onward [ALFORD]) the day of God"; not that God's eternal appointment of the time is changeable, but God appoints us as instruments of accomplishing those events which must be first before the day of God can come. By praying for His coming, furthering the preaching of the Gospel for a witness to all nations, and bringing in those whom "the long-suffering of God" waits to save, we hasten the coming of the day of God. The Greek verb is always in New Testament used as neuter (as English Version here), not active; but the Septuagint…

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Adam Clarke on 2 Peter 3:12

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 reminiscitur, adfore tempus, Quo mare, quo tellus, correptaque regia coeli Ardeat; et mundi moles operosa laboret. "Remembering in the fates a time when fire Should to the battlements of heaven aspire, And all his blazing world above should burn, And all the inferior globe to cinders turn." Dryden. Minucius Felix tells us, xxxiv. 2, that it was a common opinion of the Stoics that, the moisture of the earth being consumed, the whole world would catch fire. The Epicureans held the same sentiment; and i…

The Church Fathers

You are waiting for the end as the virgins waited for the bridegroom.
— Hilary of Arles, INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 2 PETER

For the river of fire shall come forth in fury like an angry sea, and shall burn up mountains and hills, and shall make the sea vanish, and shall dissolve the atmosphere with its heat like wax.
— Hippolytus of Rome, Dubious Hippolytus Fragments

In which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt in fervent heat but [we look for] new heavens and the new earth, has this as its purport, that with a great noise, as in the twinkling of an eye, all the elements, being on fire as in a furnace and being thus purified, undergo the change for the better. And as regards the heavens and the earth—these shall be made new and the conditions of life in them shall be changed in accordance with the saying of Paul: The fashion of this world passeth away; as if he said: the present order of things shall be changed, the succession of day and night shall cease, the stars shall no longer accomplish their courses and the air shall no longer be in motion, and neither the water nor the earth shall any more produce their harvests, but a new state of things shall be introduced suitable for immortal and incorruptible men and angels.
— Cosmas Indicopleustes, The Christian Topography, Book 7

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Dictionary and topics

Earth · 5:18;24:3,14,29-31,35-39; — 5:18;24:3,14,29-31,35-39;
Holiness · 2:17;5:22-25;6:15; — 2:17;5:22-25;6:15;
Judgment · 6:2;9:27;10:27; — 6:2;9:27;10:27;
Second Coming Of Christ, The · Called the: Coming of the day of God — Called the: Coming of the day of God

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

2 Peter 3:12

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 3:11–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Peter 3:12

Adam Clarke on 2 Peter 3:12

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

2 Peter 3:12

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 3:11–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Peter 3:12

Adam Clarke on 2 Peter 3:12

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on 2 Peter 3:12

John Calvin on 2 Peter 3:9-13

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Peter 3:12