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2 Peter 3:6 — King James Version← Study notes

Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:


2 Peter 3:6Greek Interlinear

Greek · 2 Peter 3:68 words
GreekMeaning
δι’di’
throughprepositionG1223
ὧνhōn
who / whichrelative pronounG3739
ho
thearticleG3588
τότεtote
at that timeadverbG5119
κόσμοςkosmos
worldnounG2889
ὕδατιhydati
with waternounG5204
κατακλυσθεὶςkataklystheis
having been delugedverbG2626
ἀπώλετοapōleto
perishedverbG622
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on 2 Peter 3:6

Let us now see what the Apostle Peter predicted concerning this judgment. There shall come, he says, in the last days scoffers. . . . Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness. There is nothing said here about the resurrection of the dead, but enough certainly regarding the destruction of this world. And by his reference to the deluge he seems as it were to suggest to us how far we should believe the ruin of…

Augustine · 4th century · City of God, Book XX, Chapter 18
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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Priya SharmaNote3mo ago
Seeds of faith - 2 Peter 3
God is faithful in every circumstance. What a reminder that God's ways are not our ways. God meets us exactly where we are - broken, uncertain, yet chosen. The early church would have heard this very ...
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