2 Petrus 2:8

8 (denn der unter ihnen wohnende Gerechte quälte durch das, was er sah und hörte, Tag für Tag seine gerechte Seele mit ihren gesetzlosen Werken) ...

2 Petrus 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 Petrus 2:8 In-Context

6 und die Städte Sodom und Gomorra einäscherte und zur Zerstörung verurteilte, indem er sie denen, welche gottlos leben würden, als Beispiel hinstellte;

7 und den gerechten Lot rettete, der von dem ausschweifenden Wandel der Ruchlosen gequält wurde;

8 (denn der unter ihnen wohnende Gerechte quälte durch das, was er sah und hörte, Tag für Tag seine gerechte Seele mit ihren gesetzlosen Werken) ...

9 Der Herr weiß die Gottseligen aus der Versuchung zu retten, die Ungerechten aber aufzubewahren auf den Tag des Gerichts, um bestraft zu werden;

10 besonders aber die, welche in der Lust der Befleckung dem Fleische nachwandeln und die Herrschaft verachten, Verwegene, Eigenmächtige; sie erzittern nicht, Herrlichkeiten zu lästern,