2 Peter 3:12
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Note d'étude
Study Note
The distinctive Petrine phrase 'hasting unto the coming of the day of God' (speudonta... tēn parousian) implies that the community's holy living (v. 11) and godly conduct can in some sense 'hasten' or 'accelerate' the eschatological day — a remarkable claim about the relationship between human behavior and divine timing. The theological logic connects to Jewish texts about Israel's repentance hastening the messianic age (b. Sanhedrin 97b–98a) and to Acts 3:19–21's call to repentance so that 'times of refreshing' may come. The description of the heavens dissolving and elements melting with fervent heat draws on Stoic cosmological language of ekpyrosis (cosmic conflagration) while redeploying it within a covenant-judgment framework. The verse is one of the New Testament's most direct statements about human responsibility in eschatological timing.
Autres traductions
looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements with burning heat shall melt;
Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat?
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Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
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But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire …