2 PETER 3:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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?”
Waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, on account of which the heavens will be ignited and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! — the paradox of waiting for yet hastening (speudontas) the day suggests that prayer and righteous living cooperate with God's timetable. The dissolution by fire (purothen) represents the climactic transformation of all things.
Church Fathers on 2 Peter 3:12
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 perdition of ungodly men. Therefore the heavens and the earth, or the world which was preserved from the water to stand in place of that world which perished in the flood, is itself reserved to fire at last in the day of the judgment and perdition of ungodly men. He does not hesitate to affirm that in this great change men also shall perish:…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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