2 Pedro 2:8

8 (pois, vivendo entre eles, todos os dias aquele justo se atormentava em sua alma justa por causa das maldades que via e ouvia).

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 Também condenou as cidades de Sodoma e Gomorra, reduzindo-as a cinzas, tornando-as exemplo do que acontecerá aos ímpios;

7 mas livrou Ló, homem justo, que se afligia com o procedimento libertino dos que não tinham princípios morais

8 (pois, vivendo entre eles, todos os dias aquele justo se atormentava em sua alma justa por causa das maldades que via e ouvia).

9 Vemos, portanto, que o Senhor sabe livrar os piedosos da provação e manter em castigo os ímpios para o dia do juízo,

10 especialmente os que seguem os desejos impuros da carne e desprezam a autoridade.Insolentes e arrogantes, tais homens não têm medo de difamar os seres celestiais;