2 Peter 3:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For this they willingly are ignorant of— It is probable, that these scoffers had once been Jews, and afterwards professed Christians; and consequently their ignorance in this point must needs have been wilful and affected. They prevaricated in their inquiry, or did not duly attend to and regard the Scriptural account of the flood, with the causes of it, whichthey knew; nor the intimations given by Christ, and his apostles, of the dissolution of the present world by fire.