Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Peter 3:6
Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.
Read 2 Peter 3. Compare commentaries on this chapter.
Source and publication rights
Text Creation Partnership. Public domain; TCP unrestricted text and encoding. Source edition.
Berean Blue opens December 1, 2026. Explore this passage in the app preview.
2 Peter3:6
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
By which Heavens, and Water mentioned in the former Verse, the Fountains of the great Deep being broken up, and the Windows of Heaven opened, Gen. 7.11. Or, by the Word of God, as the principal Cause, and the Water as the instrumental, which, at his Command, was poured out upon the Earth both from above and below.
The Earth, with all the Inhabitants of it, eight Persons excepted. This the Apostle alledgeth against the fore-mentioned Scoffers, who said, that all things continued as they were, when yet the Flood had made so great a change in the Face of the lower Creation.
Matthew Poole and continuators, Annotations upon the Holy Bible, 2 Peter 3:6. Public domain.
Permanent link. Source edition.