2 Peter 3:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

also, &c. = in all his epistles also.

speaking. App-121.7.

some. App-124. (neut).

hard, &c. Greek. dusnoetos. Only here.

unlearned. Greek. amathes. Only here. Compare Acts 4:13. 1Co 14:16. 2 Timothy 2:23.

unstable. See 2 Peter 2:14.

wrest. Greek. strebloo. Only here and in Septuagint of 2 Samuel 22:27 (m. wrestle). It means to strain or twist, and so to torture. Occurs in Apocrypha.

also, &c. = the other (App-124.) Scriptures also. Note that St. Paul's epistles are called "Scripture".

unto. App-104.

destruction. Same as "perdition", 2 Peter 3:7.

2 Peter 3:16

16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.