Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on 2 Peter 3:11

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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Your duty, seeing that this is so, is to be ever eagerly expecting the day of God. then--Some oldest manuscripts substitute "thus" for "then": a happy refutation of the "thus" of the scoffers, Pe2 3:4 (English Version, "As they were," Greek, "thus"). shall be--Greek, "are being (in God's appointment, soon to be fulfilled) dissolved"; the present tense implying the certainty as though it were actually present. what manner of men--exclamatory. How watchful, prayerful, zealous! to be--not the mere Greek substantive verb of existence (einai), but (huparchein) denoting a state or condition in which one is supposed to be [TITTMANN]. What holy men ye ought to be found to be, when the event comes! This is "the holy commandment" mentioned in Pe2 3:2. conversation . . . godliness--Greek, plural: behaviors (towards men), godlinesses (or pieties towards God) in their manifold modes of manifestation.

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