2 Peter 2:5 - Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

2 Peter 2:5

3 By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction¹ does not slumber.

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4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to¹ hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;

6 and turning the cities of ^aSodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;

7 and ^adelivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked

8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, ^atormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)—

9 then ^athe Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,

10 and especially ^athose who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. ^bThey are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of¹ dignitaries,

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2 Peter 2:5

The ancient world (arxaiou kosmou). Genitive case after efeisato (with ei understood) repeated (the second example, the deluge). This example not in Jude. Absence of the article is common in the prophetic style like II Peter. For arxaiov see Luke 9:8.

Preserved (efulacen). Still part of the long protasis with ei, first aorist active indicative of fulassw.

With seven others (ogdoon). "Eighth," predicate accusative adjective (ordinal), classic idiom usually with auton. See I Peter 3:20 for this same item. Some take ogdoon with khruka (eighth preacher), hardly correct.

A preacher of righteousness (dikaiosunhv khruka). "Herald" as in I Timothy 2:7; II Timothy 1:11 alone in N.T., but khrussw is common. It is implied in I Peter 3:20 that Noah preached to the men of his time during the long years.

When he brought (epacav). First aorist active participle (instead of the common second aorist active epagagwn) of eisagw, old compound verb to bring upon, in N.T. only here and Acts 5:28 (by Peter here also).

A flood (kataklusmon). Old word (from katakluzw, to inundate), only of Noah's flood in N.T. (Matthew 24:38 ff.; Luke 17:27; II Peter 2:5).

Upon the world of the ungodly (kosmoi asebwn). Anarthrous and dative case kosmw. The whole world were "ungodly" (asebeiv as in I Peter 4:18) save Noah's family of eight.

Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 2 Peter 2:5:

Luke 4:18
Acts 5:28
Hebrews 11:7
1 Peter 3:20
1 Peter 4:18
2 Peter 2:5
2 Peter 3:6
Jude 1:4

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