have such passages in mind, given that this is exactly what the mockers (whom Peter may be suggesting by the “some”) have done. They have misread the “delay,” interpreting it by man’s reckoning, to mean that the promise was false. Certainly, when people “delay,” it means they have forgotten, or been held up by things beyond their control, or did not intend to fulfill their promises to begin with. God’s “delay” means nothing of the kind. Indeed, it is “delay” only from man’s point of view. Our human