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There is an obvious relationship between the texts of 2 Peter and the Epistle of Jude. [6] Comparing the Greek text portions of 2 Peter 2:1–3:3 (426 words) to Jude 4–18 (311 words) results in 80 words in common and 7 words of substituted synonyms. [7] The shared passages are: [8]
Light in August is a 1932 novel by American author William Faulkner. It belongs to the Southern gothic and modernist literary genres. Set in the author's present day, the interwar period , the novel centers on two strangers, a pregnant white woman and a man who passes as white but who believes himself to be of mixed ethnicity.
According to the Epistle itself, it was composed by the Apostle Peter, an eyewitness to Jesus' ministry. 2 Peter 3:1 says "This is now the second letter I have written to you"; if this is an allusion to 1 Peter, then the audience of the epistle may have been the same as it was for 1 Peter, namely, various churches in Asia Minor (see 1 Peter 1:1).
Beginning in c. 1993, the hardback editions (including revised and/or second editions) have been characterized by a light-tan cloth binding with dark blue lettering on the spine, and the individual volumes are approximately 6.25 inches (15.9 cm) in width, 9.5 inches (24 cm) in height, and of variable thickness.
2 Peter 1:3 ἰδίᾳ δόξῃ ... "A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament: A Companion Volume to the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament", ...
(1693); William Lowth, Commentary on the Prophets (1714-1725); William Dodd, Commentary on the Books of the Old and New Testaments (1770), 3 volumes Folio; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament (ca. 1791), 2 volumes; [The so-called "Reformers' Bible":] The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the ...
that the 2,300 symbolic days represented 2,300 real years, as evidenced in Ezekiel 4:6 [12] and Numbers 14:34; [13] that the sanctuary represents the earth or church; and by referring to 2 Peter 3:7, [ 14 ] that the 2,300 years ended with the burning of the earth at the Second Advent.
The New Jerome Biblical Commentary was published in 1990 by the same editors as a revised and updated edition. [2] [3] In the foreword to the new edition, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini acknowledges it as the work of "the best of English-speaking Catholic exegetes... [that] condenses the results of modern scientific criticism with rigor and clarity.