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2Pe 3:11. Λυομένων, since they are being dissolved) The present tense; as though it were now taking place: thus in 2Pe 3:12, τήκεται, are melting. On the fourth of the six days of creation, the stars also were made, Gen 1:16. They also shall be dissolved together with the earth. They are mistaken, who restrict the history of the creation and the description of this destruction only to the earth and to the quarter of the heaven which is nearer to the earth, but feign that the stars are more ancient than the earth, and that they will survive the earth. It is not to the heaven only which surrounds the earth, but to the heavens, that both dissolution and restoration are ascribed, 2Pe 3:10; 2Pe 3:13.-δεῖ, ought you to be) This is the commandment mentioned in 2Pe 3:2. Others thus place the stops-ὑμᾶς;-εὐσεβείαις προσδοκῶντας.[22]-ἀναστροφαῖς, in your conversations) [i.e. dealings and whole walk] as regards the affairs of men.-εὐσεβείαις, in all godliness) as regards divine things.
[22] Tisch. and Lachm. read no interrogation.-E.