2 Peter 3:8 (WEB)
But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Fathers and councils · 5
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And there are some, again, who relegate the death of Adam to the thousandth year; for since “a day of the Lord is as a thousand years,” he did not overstep the thousand years, but died within them, thus bearing out the sentence of his sin.” — editor's note: 2 Pet. iii. 8.
Read the whole comment“For the day of the Lord is as a thousand years; and in six days created things were completed: it is evident, therefore, that they will come to an end at the sixth thousand year.” — editor's note: 2 Pet. iii. 8.
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Justin Martyr
“We have perceived, moreover, that the expression, ‘The day of the Lord is as a thousand years,’ is connected with this subject.” — editor's note: Ps. xc. 4; 2 Pet. iii. 8.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…paradise into the woes of this mortal life, so that thus, as it is written, “One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day,” there should follow on the completion of six thousand years, as of six days, a kind of seventh-day Sabbath in the succeeding thousand years; and that it is for…” — editor's note: 2 Pet. iii. 8.
Read the whole comment“Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”” — editor's note: 2 Pet. iii. 3–13. The whole passage is quoted by Augustin.
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Cross-references · 26
Cited together in Against Heresies V.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.28.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 81 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 81 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.23.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.23.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.23.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.23.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.23.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.23.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 81.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 81.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 81.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.23.
Cited together in The City of God XX.7.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.28.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.28.