2 Pedro 2:8

8 pues este justo, que convivía con ellos y amaba el bien, día tras día sentía que se le despedazaba el alma por las obras inicuas que veía y oía.

2 Pedro 2:8 Meaning and Commentary

2 Peter 2:8

For that righteous man dwelling among them
Which is sometimes the lot of good men, to their great sorrow and grief, ( Psalms 120:5-7 ) ( Isaiah 6:5 ) . Upon mentioning those words in ( Genesis 13:12 Genesis 13:13 ) "and pitched his tent towards Sodom", but the men of Sodom were wicked, &c. says R. Eleazar ^F9;

``he is a righteous man that dwells between two wicked men, and does not learn their works;''

and such an one was Lot, whatever they are elsewhere pleased to say of him: "in seeing and hearing"; the Vulgate Latin version reads this in connection with the word "righteous", thus, "in seeing and hearing he was righteous": he could not bear to see their filthy actions, and hear their obscene language, but turned away from them, and shut his eyes, and stopped his ears, by which he appears to be a righteous and good man; though rather this belongs to what follows, seeing their wicked practices, and hearing their filthy talk:

vexed his righteous soul from, day today with their unlawful deeds;
either "they vexed" him, as the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions read; or rather "he vexed" himself; he fretted and teased himself, and became exceeding uneasy, and was put upon a rack and tortured, as the word signifies, continually, with their wicked actions; see ( Psalms 119:158 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 T. Bab. Yoma, fol. 38. 2.

2 Pedro 2:8 In-Context

6 Además, condenó a las ciudades de Sodoma y Gomorra, y las redujo a cenizas, poniéndolas como escarmiento para los impíos.

7 Por otra parte, libró al justo Lot, que se hallaba abrumado por la vida desenfrenada de esos perversos,

8 pues este justo, que convivía con ellos y amaba el bien, día tras día sentía que se le despedazaba el alma por las obras inicuas que veía y oía.

9 Todo esto demuestra que el Señor sabe librar de la prueba a los que viven como Dios quiere, y reservar a los impíos para castigarlos en el día del juicio.

10 Esto les espera sobre todo a los que siguen los corrompidos deseos de la naturaleza humana y desprecian la autoridad del Señor.¡Atrevidos y arrogantes que son! No tienen reparo en insultar a los seres celestiales,