The antecedent to the word in the plural number is rather that which was in the mind of the writer, or that of which he was thinking, than the word which he had used. The world was formed from that fluid mass by these waters which existed when the earth was made, and out of which it arose, it was destroyed. He has also twice, in the same sentence, referred to "water" - "out of the water and in the water." It is evidently to these "waters" mentioned in Genesis, out of which the world was originally made, that he refers here.
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Some suppose that it refers to the heavens mentioned in the preceding verse, and to the fact that the windows of heaven were opened in the deluge (Doddridge), others that the Greek phrase is taken in the sense of (διὸ dio) "whence." Wetstein supposes that it refers to the "heavens and the earth." But the most obvious reference, though the plural number is used, and the word "water" in the antecedent is in the singular, is to "water." The fact seems to be that the apostle had the "waters" mentioned in Genesis prominently in his eye, and meant to describe the effect produced "by" those waters. The pronoun here is in the plural number, and there has been much difference of opinion as to what it refers. “The world that then was, perished” is equivalent to “He spared not the old world” in 2Peter 2:5.īarnes' Notes on the BibleWhereby - Δι ̓ ὧν Di' hōn. The world was so transformed by the deluge that the world previous to that catastrophe perished, chaos for the moment returned, and a new world issued from the crisis.
perished.-So that it is absurd to say that all things continue unchanged since the Creation. The English “whereby” is as vague as the original. Both the heavens and the earth contributed to the deluge for then “all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened” ( Genesis 7:11). There is good reason for preferring the second of these. But what things? The context allows various alternatives: (1) These facts about the Creation (2) the heavens and the earth (3) the water out of which, and the water by means of which, the world was made (4) any or all of these together with the word of God.
The original literally signifies, by means of which things. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) Whereby.-The meaning of this is much disputed.
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