Book of Second Peter Overview - Insight for Living Ministries 2 Peter 2:4. 1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:. We are not to suppose that spirits are literally bound; but it was common to bind or fetter prisoners who were in dungeons, and the representation here is taken from that fact. BDAG 247, which explains, "Equitableness is especially associated with God, and in our literature is frequently in connection with exercise of executive privilege in conferring a benefit. Jude 6; other manuscripts in 2 Peter read “pits of Tartarus.” Tartarus : a term borrowed from Greek mythology to indicate the infernal regions. It is they and they alone who are put on a level with the Old Testament prophets.” (Green) iii. In the midst of their talk of liberty, these men are the vilest slaves; their own lusts gain a complete victory over them, and they are actually in bondage. Exhortation to Christian Virtue. 1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. St. Jude is somewhat more explicit (Jude 1:6); he says it was for not keeping their own dignity—for deserting their proper home; and the reference, both there and here, is either to a common interpretation of Genesis 6:2 (that by “the sons of God” are meant “angels”), or, more probably, to distinct and frequent statements in the Book of Enoch, that certain angels sinned by having intercourse with women—e.g., Enoch vii. 14. The first is the punishment of angels that sinned. 1st Peter #7 - Suffering Leads to Sinning or Serving. There still remains the doubt whether “into chains of darkness” should go with “delivered” or with “cast down into hell.” The former arrangement seems the better. Believe in the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved.Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;" This is speaking of those who profess to know God, but are really not His. Theywere Christians who lived in the country that we now call Turkey. So Rev. Not that which preceded the history of the human race, commonly called the fall of the angels—of that there is no record in the Old Testament; and, moreover, it affords no close analogy to the conduct of the false teachers. When men are entangled, they are easily overcome; therefore Christians should keep close to the word of God, and watch against all who seek to bewilder them. No article. His wisdom and power will surely effect the purposes of his love, and the engagements of his truth; while wicked men often escape suffering here, because they are kept to the day of judgment, to be punished with the devil and his angels.10-16 Impure seducers and their abandoned followers, give themselves up to their own fleshly minds. Yet it is possible for the children of the Lord, living among the most profane, to retain their integrity; there being more power in the grace of Christ, and his dwelling in them, than in the temptations of Satan, or the example of the wicked, with all their terrors or allurements. About 2 Peter. Those who stood are called in Scripture, the holy angels. Only here in New Testament. ((n) Midrash Ruth in Zohar in Gen. fol. St. Peter is giving proofs of his assertion that the punishment of the ungodly lingereth not. It is printed as a single paragraph in the ASV, but a workable outline of it is given by Strachan, thus: [1]. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. See how God dealt with the old world. 1 * Symeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith of equal value to ours through the righteousness of our God and savior Jesus Christ: 2 may grace and peace be yours in abundance through knowledge * of God and of Jesus our Lord. Originally of the gloom of the nether world, So Homer: When Ulysses meets his mother in the shades, she says to him: "How didst thou come, my child, a living man, For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast. That the fallen angels will be punished after the judgment is apparent from Revelation 20:10. and of Aza and Azael, angels, who, they say, sinned by lusting after the daughters of men, they frequently affirm, that God cast them down from their holiness (l), and that he , "cast them down below in chains" (m); and that God cast them down from their holiness from above; and when they descended, they were rolled in the air--and he brought them to the mountains of darkness, which are called the mountains of the east, and bound them "in chains" of iron, and the chains were sunk into the midst of the great deep (n): and elsewhere they say (o), that God cast them down from their holy degree, out of heaven--from their holy place out of heaven--and bound them in "chains" of iron, in the mountains of "darkness". Peculiar to Peter and Jude. Jude 6).However, it is evident from the NT that demons roam freely over the earth, oppressing and even possessing people (cf. in gloomy pits of darkness, # 2:4b Some manuscripts read in chains of gloom. Not inconsistent with 1Pe 5:8; for though their final doom is hell, yet for a time they are permitted to roam beyond it in "the darkness of this world." (10-16) But as making high pretences to liberty and purity. The oldest manuscripts read, "dens," as Alford translates: the Greek, however, may, in Hellenistic Greek, mean "chains," as Jude expresses it. Angels were cast down from all their glory and dignity, for their disobedience. How dreadful is the state here described! To bring an evil report upon the good way of God, and a false charge against the way of truth, must expose to the heaviest condemnation. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. Angels. (d) Bound them with darkness as with chains: and by darkness he means that most miserable state of life that is full of horror. Close. They will then, with the revolted inhabitants of this world, be brought to trial for their crimes. Watch our overview video on 2 Peter, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. They walk after the flesh, they go on in sinful courses, and increase to greater degrees of impurity and wickedness. 17:2, 18. (k) Sepher Bahir in Zohar in Gen. fol. 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