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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude is unavailable, but you can change that!

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appearance but now bestowed. But this sense appears to be foreign to our passage, and “until you,” for “until your days,” is a very singular, if not impossible use of the preposition. Οὐρανοῖς, “In heaven”: the plural has no more significance here than in the Lord’s Prayer, Matt. 6:9. There may be a reminiscence here of the Book of Enoch xlviii. 7, “And the wisdom of the Lord of spirits hath revealed him to the holy and righteous, for he preserveth the lot of the righteous”: lviii. 5, “And after
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