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2Pe 3:13. Καινοὺς, new) A great mystery, new heavens and a new earth. It is something external to God and external to man.[24]-ἐπάγγελμα, promise) 2Pe 3:4.-ἐν οἷς δικαιοσύνη κατοικεῖ, in which dwelleth righteousness) Therefore they shall not grow old. There will be a complete separation between good and evil, Mat 3:12; Mat 13:30. The inhabitants who ought to be righteous, 2Pe 3:11, compared with 6 and 7. In the new world, which comprises the heaven and the earth, dwelleth righteousness. The new world is one whole: in it (the whole) dwelleth righteousness. That part, which had been polluted by unrighteousness, shall be freed from pollution.
[24] The promise is not merely of some new manifestation of God, or of some change in man, but of something external; not of that which is subjective, but objective.-T.