Second Epistle Of Saint Peter, Chapter Three
Against scoffers denying the second coming of Christ. He declares the sudden dissolution of this world and exhorts to holiness of life.
2
PETER 3
CHAPTER
III.
Against
scoffers, denying the second coming of Christ, he declares the sudden
dissolution of this world; and exhorts to holiness of life.
1
This second epistle behold I write to you, dearly beloved, in which I
excite by admonition your sincere mind:
2
That you may be mindful of those words which I told you before from
the holy prophets, and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord
and Saviour.
3
Knowing this first, *that in the last days there shall come scoffers
with deceit, walking according to their own lusts,
4
Saying: *Where is his promise or his coming? For, since the fathers
slept, all things continue so from the beginning of the creation.
5
For this they are wilfully ignorant of, that the heavens were before,
and the earth, out of water and through water, consisting by the word
of God:
6
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water,
perished.
7
But the heavens which now are, and the earth, by the same word are
kept in store, reserved for fire unto the day of judgment, and of the
perdition of wicked men.
8
But be not ignorant, my beloved, of this one thing, that one day with
the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9
The Lord delayeth not his promise, as some imagine: but acts
patiently for your sake, not willing that any should perish, but that
all should return to penance.
10
*But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens
shall pass away with great violence, and the elements shall be melted
with heat, and the earth, and the works that are in it, shall be
burnt up.
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*
3:
1 Tim. iv. 1.; 2 Tim. iii. 1.; Jude i. 18.
4:
Ezec. xii. 27.
10:
1 Thess. v. 2.; Apoc. iii. 3. and xvi. 15.
2
PETER 3
CHAPTER
III.
Ver.
3.
Scoffers[1]
with
deceit,
(such as make a jest of all revealed religion) walking
according to their own lusts,
as if they might indulge themselves in every thing which their
inclinations prompt them to, saying:
where is his promise, or his coming?
They have no belief nor regard for what has been revealed concerning
the coming of Christ to judge every one, to reward the good, and
punish the wicked. Such were the Sadducees, who believe not the
immortality of the soul, nor the resurrection; such were at all times
those atheistical men, who endeavoured to persuade themselves that
all religion is no more than a human and politic invention; of this
number are they who some in our days call free-thinkers. S. Peter
here gives us the words of these unbelieving libertines, whom he
calls scoffers: where,
they say, is
his promise? those
pretended promises of God, those predictions and menaces in the
Scriptures? what appearance of Christ's coming
to judge the world? for,
since the Fathers slept,
ever since the death of the patriarchs and prophets,
all things continue.
Wi.
Ver.
5.
For
this they are wilfully ignorant of.
The ignorance of these unbelievers is wilful and inexcusable, when
they question the existence of a Supreme Being, of a future state,
wherein God will reward the good and punish the wicked; when they
laugh at all the miracles, and all the extraordinary effects of God's
power and justice, such as was the general flood or deluge, by which
God destroyed the wicked by an inundation of waters. And as our
blessed Saviour said of those, who would not believe in the days of
Noe, "They were eating and drinking, marrying, and giving in
marriage, . . . and they knew not till the flood came, and took them
all away: so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." Mat.
xxiv. 38, 39. Wi.
Ver.
10.
The
heavens,
&c. He puts the faithful in mind not to regard these profane
scoffers, but to be convinced of the truths revealed, and that the
world shall be destroyed a second time by fire. Reflect that the
time of this life, and all the time that this world shall last, is
nothing to eternity, which has no parts, no beginning, nor end; so
that in the sight of God, who is eternal, a thousand years are no
more to be regarded than one day, or one moment. The long time that
hath hitherto passed, must not make you think that God is slack as to
his promises, or that they shall not infallibly come to pass at the
time and moment appointed by his divine providence. God's infinite
mercy, and his love for mankind, bears patiently with the
provocations of blind and unthinking sinners, not willing that any of
them should perish, but that they should return to him by a sincere
repentance and true penance, and be saved. But watch always,
according to the repeated admonition of our blessed Redeemer. Mark
xiii. 37. &c. For both the day of your death, and the day
of the Lord
to judge the world, will come
like a thief,
&c. Wi.
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(Note in the below that the Hebrew characters read in reverse order than the English letters) Numbers are under the English equivalents.
Hammelek l Yisrael
H M L K L Y S R A L
ה מ ל כ ל י ש ר א ל
5+ 40+ 30+ 20+ 30+ 10+ 300+ 200+ 1+ 30 = 666
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