But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
Sin has corrupted all creation, and it cannot be freed without dissolution. If man's transgression has brought such ruin, how abominable sin is and how much we must hate it. You must labor to be eminent in holiness, not content with a lower measure, holy in God's house and your own, in worship and in all your dealings with men.
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Commenting on 2 Peter 3:11-18
Verse 13. Nevertheless we, according to his promise. The allusion here seems to be, beyond a doubt, to two passages in Isaiah, in which a promise of this kind is found. : "For, behold, I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind." : "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I...
Nevertheless--"But": in contrast to the destructive effects of the day of God stand its constructive effects. As the flood was the baptism of the earth, eventuating in a renovated earth, partially delivered from "the curse," so the baptism with fire shall purify the earth so as to be the renovated abode of regenerated man, wholly freed from the curse. his promise-- (Isa 65:17; Isa 66:22).