In 2 Peter 2:4, Revised Version, we read, "For if God spared not the angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved unto judgment." What is the meaning of the word, "Hell" or as the marginal reading gives it "TARTARUS," which is the Greek word translated "hell?" (C.V.B.)

The word “Tartaroosas” (2 Peter 2:4 Nestles-Aland Greek New Testament) is used in Grecian mythology as the name for a dark abyss or prison of divine punishment. But the word refers us more to an act (“being Tatarooed”) than to a place. The fall of the angels [...]

Please explain 2 Pet. 3:16: “As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction.”

From the reading of this chapter, it is evident that "these things," referred to by the Apostle, are the things relating to the three worlds and the three heavens of which he was writing. In `2 Cor. 12:1-4`, the Apostle Paul relates how that [...]

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