Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

2 Peter 1:10

διὸ μᾶλλον. With this blessing and this curse in view, you should be the more eager to do your part—the part which God allows, and indeed requires from you—in making effective the call which has come to you from Him. As Christians you are called and chosen: but that fact does not render exertion on your part unnecessary. You must walk worthily of the calling wherewith you were called (Ephesians 4:1) (where however κλῆσις is not parallel to καλέσαντος of 2 Peter 1:3 here).

ταῦτα refers back to the list of virtues.

οὐ μὴ πταίσητέ ποτε. St James (James 3:2) says πολλὰ γὰρ πταίομεν ἅπαντες. Our author does not mean that his readers will be sinless: he is thinking of such final stumbling as the Psalmist speaks of, “my feet were almost gone, my treadings had well-nigh slipped.” Your progress will be continuous, he says, and your entrance into the (future) kingdom of glory triumphant. Compare the words of Aristides quoted on p. xviii.

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