2 Pietro 2:8

8 poichè quel giusto, abitando fra loro, per ciò ch’egli vedeva, ed udiva, tormentava ogni dì l’anima sua giusta per le scellerate loro opere;

2 Pietro 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 Pietro 2:8 In-Context

6 e condannò a sovversione le città di Sodoma, e di Gomorra, avendole ridotte in cenere, e poste per esempio a coloro che per l’avvenire viverebbero empiamente;

7 e scampò il giusto Lot, travagliato per la lussuriosa condotta degli scellerati

8 poichè quel giusto, abitando fra loro, per ciò ch’egli vedeva, ed udiva, tormentava ogni dì l’anima sua giusta per le scellerate loro opere;

9 il Signore sa trarre di tentazione i pii, e riserbar gli empi ad esser puniti nel giorno del giudicio;

10 massimamente coloro che vanno dietro alla carne, in concupiscenza d’immondizia; e che sprezzano le signorie: che sono audaci, di lor senno, e non hanno orrore di dir male delle dignità.