2 Peter 3:12

3:12 while waiting for and hastening ¹  the coming of the day of God? ²  Because of this day, ³  the heavens will be burned up and ⁴  dissolve, and the celestial bodies ⁵  will melt away in a blaze! ⁶ 

2 Peter 2:6

2:6 and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, ⁷  having appointed ⁸  them to serve as an example ⁹  to future generations of the ungodly, ¹⁰ 

[3:12]  ¹ tn Or possibly, “striving for,” but the meaning “hasten” for σπουδάζω (spoudazw) is normative in Jewish apocalyptic literature (in which the coming of the Messiah/the end is anticipated). Such a hastening is not an arm-twisting of the divine volition, but a response by believers that has been decreed by God.

[3:12]  ² sn The coming of the day of God. Peter elsewhere describes the coming or parousia as the coming of Christ (cf. 2 Pet 1:16; 3:4). The almost casual exchange between “God” and “Christ” in this little book, and elsewhere in the NT, argues strongly for the deity of Christ (see esp. 1:1).

[3:12]  ³ tn Grk “on account of which” (a subordinate relative clause in Greek).

[3:12]  ⁴ tn Grk “being burned up, will dissolve.”

[3:12]  ⁵ tn See note in v. 10 on “celestial bodies.”

[3:12]  ⁶ tn Grk “being burned up” (see v. 10).

[2:6]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn “To serve as” is not in Greek but is implied in the object-complement construction.

[2:6]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “an example of the things coming to the ungodly,” or perhaps “an example to the ungodly of coming [ages].”