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2Pe 3:5 King James For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Refutation of their scoffing from Scripture history.

willingly--wilfully; they do not wish to know. Their ignorance is voluntary.

they . . . are ignorant of--in contrast to Pe2 3:8, "Be not ignorant of this." Literally, in both verses, "This escapes THEIR notice (sagacious philosophers though they think themselves)"; "let this not escape YOUR notice." They obstinately shut their eyes to the Scripture record of the creation and the deluge; the latter is the very parallel to the coming judgment by fire, which Jesus mentions, as Peter doubtless remembered.

by the word of God--not by a fortuitous concurrence of atoms [ALFORD].

of old--Greek, "from of old"; from the first beginning of all things. A confutation of their objection, "all things continue as they were FROM THE BEGINNING OF CREATION." Before the flood, the same objection to the possibility of the flood might have been urged with the same plausibility: The heavens (sky) and earth have been FROM OF OLD, how unlikely then that they should not continue so! But, replies Peter, the flood came in spite of their reasonings; so will the conflagration of the earth come in spite of the "scoffers" of the last days, changing the whole order of things (the present "world," or as Greek means, "order"), and introducing the new heavens and earth (Pe2 3:13).

earth standing out of--Greek, "consisting of," that is, "formed out of the water." The waters under the firmament were at creation gathered together into one place, and the dry land emerged out of and above, them.

in, &c.--rather, "by means of the water," as a great instrument (along with fire) in the changes wrought on the earth's surface to prepare it for man. Held together BY the water. The earth arose out of the water by the efficacy of the water itself [TITTMANN].
 
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13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
9 For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.