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3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, awalking according to their own lusts,  
4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of acreation.”  
5 For this they willfully forget: that aby the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth bstanding out of water and in the water,  
6 aby which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water.  
7 But athe heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for bfire until the day of judgment and1 perdition of ungodly men.  
8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and aa thousand years as one day.  
9 aThe Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but bis longsuffering toward us, cnot willing that any should perish but dthat all should come to repentance.  
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2 Peter 3:5

For this they wilfully forget (lanqanei gar autouv touto qelontav). Literally, "for this escapes them being willing." See this use of lanqanw (old verb, to escape notice of, to be hidden from) in Acts 26:26. The present active participle qelontav (from qelw, to wish) has almost an adverbial sense here.

Compacted (sunestwsa). See Paul's sunesthken (Colossians 1:17) "consist." Second perfect active (intransitive) participle of sunisthmi, feminine singular agreeing with gh (nearest to it) rather than with ouranoi (subject of hsan imperfect plural). There is no need to make Peter mean the Jewish mystical "seven heavens" because of the plural which was used interchangeably with the singular (Matthew 5:9 f.).

Out of water and amidst water (ec udatov kai di udatov). Out of the primeval watery chaos (Genesis 1:2), but it is not plain what is meant by di udatov, which naturally means "by means of water," though dia with the genitive is used for a condition or state (Hebrews 12:1). The reference may be to Genesis 1:9, the gathering together of the waters.

By the word of God (tw tou qeou logw). Instrumental case logw, "by the fiat of God" (Genesis 1:3; Hebrews 11:3 rhmati qeou).




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