2 Peter - Verse-by-Verse Biblical Exegesis

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VUL 2 Peter 2:12 hii vero velut inrationabilia pecora naturaliter in captionem et in perniciem in his quae ignorant blasphemantes in corruptione sua et peribunt LWB 2 Peter 2:13 Receiving unrighteousness as their reward for unrighteousness [wrongdoing], regarding riotous living [partying] in the daytime a pleasure [no job, self-discipline or motive in life], moral blemishes [lowlifes], degenerates [disgraceful scum], carousing at your love-feasts [with ulterior motives] while feasting together with you, KW 2 Peter 2:13 Receiving unrighteousness as the hire for unrighteousness, deeming luxurious living in the daytime a pleasure; moral blemishes and disgraceful blots, reveling in their deceitful cravings while they are feasting with you [at the Christian lovefeasts], KJV 2 Peter 2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; TRANSLATION HIGHLIGHTS Peter lists some examples of the type of depraved behavior the false teachers are destroying themselves with. All of the verbs are in the iterative present tense, because they make it a regular habit to do these things. They are receiving unrighteousness as their reward for wrongdoing. It’s just a coincidence that the Latin word for wages or reward in this verse is mercedes, so don’t start singing that silly tune “Lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.” They regard partying all day long (Latin: voluptuous existence) instead of working at a constructive job a pleasure (Latin: delicious). They have no self-discipline or purpose in life but to live riotously with no concern for tomorrow. Their investment in sin (commercial metaphor) will pay unhealthy, diminishing returns. In other words, “it’s payback time.” They are moral blemishes, what we would classify as lowlifes. They are degenerates, disgraceful scum in fancy clothes with fancy talk. They enjoy carousing at your feasts or potluck suppers, eating free meals and looking for someone to fleece. While they are feasting with you (Temporal Participle), they are considering their options with ulterior motives. They want food, drink, sex, power and money; they consider the pursit of these things while under the cover of religion to be a sport. “Fornication is not enough; it must be rape at the meal table.” (M. Green) The love feasts or convivia of the time were merely field training exercises (FTX) for the false teachers, precursors for actual battlefield operations in the marketplace and other public forums. RELEVANT OPINIONS The traits of the deceitful life of the false teachers is described here. Instead of focusing on the spiritual life, the apostate teacher forcuses attention on his own life and personality to lure the unwary into accepting his fraudulent message. Personally charming, socially
scintillating, emotionally stimulating, and superficially pious, the deceitful communicator receives a wide hearing and everyone clamors to entertain him. Yet, his life revolves around hedone, sensual gratification – the antithesis of the self-discipline necessary to consistently study and teach. The false teacher routinely indulges in gimmicks and other frivolous programs to hide the superficialities and inaccuracies of his unstudied message. (R.B. Thieme, Jr.) They do not work for a living but live off of the money they get from those whom they lead astray into false doctrine. (K. Wuest) The false teachers will be paid in full for the wrongs they have perpetrated … Apparently the heretics have no desire to be gainfully employed, are idle during the day, and spend their time in drunken revelry … The words blots and blemishes are the reverse of Peter’s description of believers, “without blemish or defect ...” The love feast was a meal at which not only bread and wine but all kinds of viands were used, a meal which had the double purpose of satisfying hunger and thirst and giving expression to the sense of Christian brotherhood. (S. Kistemaker) They gave the business hours of the day to selfindulgence. They joined, it seems, in the love-feasts of the Christians, but their love was only a pretence. As far as they were concerned, the love-feasts were but hollow hypocrisies, occasions for excess. (B. Caffin) They disgraced the sober daytime Agapae by their licentious behavior. (M. Green) Though the false teachers tried to pass themselves off as spiritual leaders possessing a special level of knowledge, they did not even hide their orgies under the cover of darkness, but would carouse in broad daylight while reveling in their pleasures. And they did all this while obviously joining in the love feasts of the church. (K. Gangel) Reveling makes the false teachers “blots and blemishes.” This synonymous word pair and metaphor conjures up the imagery of animals not suitable for sacrifice (Lev. 1:3) or a man unfit for priestly duty (Lev. 21:21). The audience becomes aware that because the false teachers are among them, they are not a holy and pleasing sacrifice to God. (D. Watson) They amuse themselves deceiving you even when they are your guests at a meal. (Jersusalem Bible: D. Hiebert) 2 Peter 2:13 Receiving unrighteousness as (avdike,w, PPPtc.NMP, Iterative, Modal; damage, injury, harm) their (ellipsis) reward (Acc. Dir. Obj.; pay, wages) for unrighteousness (Gen. Reciprocity; wickedness, wrongdoing), regarding (h`ge,omai, PMPtc.NMP, Iterative, Modal) riotous living (Adv. Acc.; partying, reveling) in the daytime (Loc. Time) a pleasure (Pred. Acc.; no job, self-discipline or motive in life), moral blemishes (Pred. Nom.; lowlifes) and (connective) degenerates (Pred. Nom.; disgraceful scum), carousing (evntrufa,w, PAPtc.NMP, Iterative, Modal; reveling, sporting, ulterior motives) at your (Poss. Gen.) love-feasts (Loc. Place) while feasting together (suneuwce,omai, PPPtc.NMP, Iterative, Temporal, Deponent) with you (Dat. Assoc.), BGT 2 Peter 2:13 avdikou,menoi misqo.n avdiki,aj( h`donh.n h`gou,menoi th.n evn h`me,ra| trufh,n( spi,loi kai. mw/moi evntrufw/ntej evn tai/j avpa,taij auvtw/n suneuwcou,menoi u`mi/n(
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2 Peter Benjamin W. Brodie April 20
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2 Peter 1:15 Indeed, I will also ma
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2 Peter 2:11 Whereas angels [in hea
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2 Peter 3:6 Through which the world
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among them a deliberate ignorance o
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e our defense - knowledge. Where is
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necessary to see the Lord with our
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LWB 2 Peter 1:2 Grace to you and pr
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stress on knowledge. The more we re
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can really know Him ... Greater kno
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“world system” because Satan ha
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Because we are in union with Christ
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trembling endeavors by the side of
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TRANSLATION HIGHLIGHTS Peter contin
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which whosoever lives is counted de
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doctrine in daily life, the more th
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He who is not adding to his knowled
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very moment that Christ is received
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undisciplined in habits of thought,
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- note that he does not say, “fal
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LWB 2 Peter 3:18 But [rather] keep
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