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2Pe 3:7. Οἱ δὲ νῦν οὐρανοὶ, but the heavens which now are) The heavens are the same and the earth is the same, as of old (although they appear to have undergone no slight change at the deluge): but the mockers speak as though they were not at all the same. The apostle expresses their feeling, δὲ, but, makes an antithesis: by water, and, for or unto fire. Fire shall refute the mockers. This verse also depends upon that, 2Pe 3:5.-τῷ αὐτοῦ) The article is rarely placed before αὐτοῦ;[19] but it is thus placed, Heb 2:4; Jam 1:18.-τεθησαυρισμένοι, reserved) Therefore it is that the heavens and the earth do not more quickly grow old.-πυρὶ, unto or for, fire) The Dative. Let those fiery meteors be thought of, which in our time often gleam from the lofty sky.-τῶν ἀσεβῶν, of the ungodly) these very persons, and the others.
[19] Nevertheless the reading αὐτῷ, which is set down by the margin of the larger Ed. among those not to be approved of, in the margin of Ed. 2 is put on a level with the reading αὐτοῦ; and the Germ. Vers. bas “durch eben das Wort.”-E. B.
Τῷ αὐτῷ is read by AB (according to Lachm.) Vulg. Memph.: and so Lachm. But Τῷ αὐτοῦ, by B (according to Tisch.) C: and so Tisch. Stephens’ Rec. Text omits τῷ; but not so the Elzev. Rec. Text.-E.