The Apostle Peter
2 Peter 3:8ASV·traditional attribution

But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Reformed

Do not be ignorant like the scoffers. God's delay is not weakness but long-suffering. To Him, a thousand years and a day are one; He inhabits eternity where all future things lie present to His knowledge, and His power needs no long delays. He is never slack.

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Geneva Bible Notes Reformed

This objection melts away when you remember that God has no time as we reckon it. A thousand years or a single day, to Him there is no long or short. What seems an age to us is nothing before His eternity.

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John Calvin Reformed

Stop measuring God's calendar by your own flesh. When you lift your mind to His eternity, a thousand years vanish like moments. The day of judgment does not hang on the clock's tick but on God's hidden counsel, not on your impatience.

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