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2Pe_2:6. Third example: The overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah; cf. Jud_1:7.
This verse also is still dependent on εἰ . Schott, without any adequate reason, asserts that the author “has even here forgotten the construction of his expression in the protasis with εἰ .”
πόλεις Σοδόμων καὶ Γομόῤῥας ] The gen. as apposition.
τεφρώσας ] Suidas: equivalent to ἐμπρήσας , σποδώσας : “by burning them to ashes, by reducing them to ashes.”
καταστροφῇ κατέκρινεν ] not equal to eversione s. subversione damnavit i. e. unditus evertendo punivit (Gerhard, Dietlein, Schott), but καταστροφῇ is the dative of reference; see Buttmann, p. 144; cf. κατακρ . θανάτῳ , Mat_20:18; Pott correctly: in cineres redigens damnavit ad eversionem; thus also Wahl, de Wette, Wiesinger, Steinfass, Fronmüller, Hofmann; only it must be here remarked that κατακρίνειν includes within it the punishment, the putting into execution of the judgment of condemnation—which Hofmann, without reason, denies, cf. Rom_8:3.
It is incorrect to connect καταστροφῇ with τεφρώσας (Bengel).
καταστροφή , in the N. T. besides here, only in 2Ti_2:14; there, however, in a figurative sense; the same word occurs in the narrative of the destruction of the cities of the plain, Gen_19:29, LXX.
ὑπόδειγμα μελλόντων ἀσεβεῖν τεθεικώς ] Jud_1:7; with ὑπόδειγμα , not equal to “example,” but to “type,” cf. Jam_5:10; Heb_4:11, etc. The perf. τεθεικώς corresponds with the πρόκεινται , Jud_1:7; Hofmann correctly: “God has made them, as the perf. shows, a lasting type of those who ever afterwards should live a godless life.”[68]
[68] Hofmann attaches particular importance to the circumstance, that the judgment which was effected by water was followed by another, which was effected by fire.