2 Peter — Greek text and reception

Saints Translation: 2 Peter [V2] · Saints Translation

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Source guide and review record

SAINTS TRANSLATION

2 Peter

V2 • Working translation draft • Sep 13, 2026

Complete working translation draft, V1, Sep 8, 2026: all 61 source verses independently translated from the directly read Greek running text and reviewed for clause coverage, negatives, grammatical person, and sequence. Selected reception passages were directly consulted in the identified English presentations. No critical-apparatus, manuscript, NA28/UBS, or Hebrew–Greek collation is claimed. Independent human specialist review remains outstanding.

3 chapters • 61 translation rows

Reader’s guide

The three columns identify the verse, give its literal-smooth English translation from the declared Greek, and distinguish textual observations from attributed reception.

SBLGNT numbering: 3 chapters, 61 source verses, 61 translation rows. Every source verse appears once, in source order. Sentences may continue across rows; pericope titles are editorial navigation aids. No Hebrew parallel or LXX counterpart is invented for this New Testament book; the five comparison classifications do not apply.

Source basis and review scope

Michael W. Holmes, ed., The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010), official Faithlife/SBLGNT electronic running text, repository version 1.2 (Jul 10, 2023), accessed Sep 8, 2026.

Sources, Method & Decisions

Source register

[G] Michael W. Holmes, ed., The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010), official Faithlife/SBLGNT electronic running text, repository version 1.2 (Jul 10, 2023), accessed Sep 8, 2026.. Complete 2 Peter Greek running text, all 61 verses. Publisher-maintained Greek transcription, directly read in full; editorial variant-boundary signs observed, apparatus not collated. Source [G]. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.

[LIC] SBLGNT version history and Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Publisher version and licensing declaration, also checked at SBLGNT license. Publisher repository and license metadata. Source [LIC]. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.

[ATH] Athanasius, Letter 60 to Adelphius, section 4; English Archibald Robertson, NPNF Second Series 4 (1892), New Advent presentation. Direct citation of Second Peter one four in the argument for the incarnate Word and participation in divine life. Direct reading of the identified English presentation of the ancient author; not a manuscript collation. Source [ATH]. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.

[A20] Augustine, City of God, Book 20, chapter 18; New Advent English presentation. Direct discussion of Second Peter three, the flood analogy, fire, judgment, and the promised new heavens and earth. Direct reading of the identified English presentation of the ancient author; not a manuscript collation. Source [A20]. Accessed Sep 8, 2026.

Contextual term record

ἰσότιμος → of equal honor. The faith received by the addressees is not treated as lower in status than the writer’s.

ἐπίγνωσις / γνῶσις → knowledge. The distinct related Greek forms are recorded here; English does not force an absolute technical difference in every occurrence.

ἀρετή → excellence. Used for divine excellence in one three and the quality supplied in faith in one five.

θείας κοινωνοὶ φύσεως → participants in the divine nature. The participation wording remains explicit, with later doctrines of deification distinguished in reception notes.

σκήνωμα / ἔξοδος → tent / departure. Preserves the writer’s linked metaphors for embodied life and its approaching end.

παρουσία → coming. Retains the presence/arrival sense in the passages concerning Christ and the day of God.

ἰδίας ἐπιλύσεως → one’s own interpretation. The construction does not explicitly name either prophet or reader as the possessor; the following verse speaks about prophetic origin.

αἱρέσεις → factions. May also denote schools or teachings; the text itself characterizes them as destructive.

ταρταρόω → cast into Tartarus. Distinct ancient term retained; not replaced by Hades or Gehenna.

φθορά / φθείρω → corruption or destruction / destroy. The semantic connection between moral corruption and ruin is visible; context controls the English choice.

ἀδικούμενοι μισθὸν ἀδικίας → suffering harm as the wages of wrongdoing. Preserves the unusual main-text participle and its wordplay with wrongdoing.

στοιχεῖα → elements. The word is kept without claiming a particular ancient or modern model of cosmic composition.

εὑρεθήσεται → will be found. Difficult positive reading at three ten; preserved exactly as a translation problem, without an unverified apparatus claim.

σπεύδω → hasten. At three twelve the construction can alternatively convey eager desire; no timetable or mechanism is supplied.

Material decisions

Greek base text copyright 2010 Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license). This independent English translation adapts that Greek text and includes new editorial notes; it is not the publishers’ English translation and implies no publisher endorsement. The source is supplied without warranties under the license.

Initial V1 translation follows the main text of source G without an intentional eclectic departure. Embedded apparatus boundary signs are editorial markers rather than translated words.

Main-text readings are preserved even where unfamiliar: Simeon in one one, chains and Tartarus in two four, Bosor in two fifteen, barely escaping in two eighteen, and will be found in three ten.

The close thematic relationship between Second Peter two and Jude is not presented as a Hebrew–Greek parallel or subjected to the five comparison classifications; no dependency direction is asserted.

The voice at the holy mountain is translated from this book’s own Greek wording, retaining its repeated My, without harmonizing it to a Gospel account.

The Greek’s striking images—tent, morning star, chains of gloom, adulteress-filled eyes, animal proverbs, and cosmic dissolution—remain. Explanations are identified in notes rather than substituted for them.

Athanasius and Augustine are selective, directly consulted reception witnesses. Their theological and cosmological explanations are not claims that the same detail appears in the Greek text.

Open questions and remaining review

The syntax of one nineteen to twenty and the precise relation between eyewitness testimony and prophetic word merit further specialist review.

The referents of lordship, glorious beings, and the pronouns in two ten to twelve remain unresolved.

The unusual participle at two thirteen and the scope of corruption/destruction language warrant apparatus and lexical work beyond this draft.

The antecedent of the plural relative at three six, the difficult will be found at three ten, and the force of hastening at three twelve require further review; no conjectural source wording has been adopted.

Historical authorship, dating, and the full scope of the prior letter and Pauline letter references remain outside the translation’s claimed findings.

Version record

V1: First working translation of the declared scope under the updated Saints Translation reference.

Full-book review update

All sixty-one reading verses were reviewed against the official SBLGNT Greek main text in complete literary units. The reading translation is retained. All inherited textual notes and the Athanasius and Augustine references were checked. These notes give each verse a specific textual observation and verified Christian reception, sometimes through an expressly scoped passage comment. Calvin is a later Reformed interpreter; his views and editorial footnotes are distinguished, and English presentations of ancient authors are not independent ancient textual witnesses. No comprehensive reception search, manuscript/apparatus collation, or independent specialist approval is claimed.

Additional Christian reception sources

C01–C15 identify John Calvin, Commentary on Second Peter, in CCEL’s English presentation of Commentaries on the Catholic Epistles. Author commentary was read in each linked section; editorial footnotes were distinguished. These are later Reformed interpretations, not ancient textual witnesses.

C01 — Calvin, on 2 Peter 1:1–4

C02 — Calvin, on 2 Peter 1:5–9

C03 — Calvin, on 2 Peter 1:10–15

C04 — Calvin, on 2 Peter 1:16–18

C05 — Calvin, on 2 Peter 1:19–21

C06 — Calvin, on 2 Peter 2:1–3

C07 — Calvin, on 2 Peter 2:4–8

C08 — Calvin, on 2 Peter 2:9–11

C09 — Calvin, on 2 Peter 2:12–16

C10 — Calvin, on 2 Peter 2:17–19

C11 — Calvin, on 2 Peter 2:20–22

C12 — Calvin, on 2 Peter 3:1–4

C13 — Calvin, on 2 Peter 3:5–8

C14 — Calvin, on 2 Peter 3:9–13

C15 — Calvin, on 2 Peter 3:14–18

Collation against Nestle–Aland 28

BUN — Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress I, §§17, 173, 376 (§17 Evangelist's guiding light, First Stage; §173 Faithful on Pliable, CCEL Fifth Stage; §376 the discussion of Temporary, CCEL Tenth Stage). Project Gutenberg eBook 131, Part One. Section numbers are Gutenberg editorial divisions; verse labels do not by themselves establish authorial attribution. Actual wording checked.On 13 September 2026 every verse of this book where the SBLGNT and NA28 differ was identified from the edition marks of Tyndale House's Translators Amalgamated Greek New Testament (STEPBible, CC BY 4.0) and the SBLGNT apparatus, and the rendering above was read at each one. 9 verses differ; 8 of them would read differently in English if NA28 were translated instead of the SBLGNT, and each of those carries a note above beginning "NA28". The collation is against TAGNT's edition marks and the SBLGNT apparatus; a printed NA28 apparatus has not been consulted, and NA28's square brackets are inferred, not recorded.