2 Peter 2:5-8

2:5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, ¹  when God ²  brought a flood on an ungodly world, ³  2:6 and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, ⁴  having appointed ⁵  them to serve as an example ⁶  to future generations of the ungodly, ⁷  2:7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless ⁸  men, ⁹  2:8 (for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul ¹⁰  by the lawless deeds he saw and heard ¹¹ )

[2:5]  ¹ tn “Along with seven others” is implied in the cryptic, “the eighth, Noah.” A more literal translation thus would be, “he did protect Noah [as] the eighth…”

[2:5]  ² tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been repeated here for clarity, although this is somewhat redundant with the beginning of v. 4.

[2:5]  ³ tn Grk “a world of the ungodly.”

[2:6]  ⁴ tc Several important witnesses omit καταστροφῇ (katastrofh, “destruction”; such as Ì^72* B C* 1241 1739 1881 pc), but this is probably best explained as an accidental omission due to homoioarcton (the word following is κατέκρινεν [katekrinen, “he condemned”]).

[2:6]  ⁵ tn The perfect participle τεθεικώς (teqeikw") suggests an antecedent act. More idiomatically, the idea seems to be, “because he had already appointed them to serve as an example.”

[2:6]  ⁶ tn “To serve as” is not in Greek but is implied in the object-complement construction.

[2:6]  ⁷ tn Grk “an example of the things coming to the ungodly,” or perhaps “an example to the ungodly of coming [ages].”

[2:7]  ⁷ tn Or “unprincipled.”

[2:7]  ⁸ tn This verse more literally reads “And [if] he rescued righteous Lot, who was deeply distressed by the lifestyle of the lawless in [their] debauchery.”

[2:8]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “that righteous man tormented his righteous soul.”

[2:8]  ¹¹ tn Grk “by lawless deeds, in seeing and hearing [them].”