2 Peter 1:2
1:2 knowledge (i-10) _ Epignosis_ , 'full knowledge,' 'personal recognition,' as Colossians 1:9 .... [ Continue Reading ]
1:2 knowledge (i-10) _ Epignosis_ , 'full knowledge,' 'personal recognition,' as Colossians 1:9 .... [ Continue Reading ]
1:3 knowledge (i-19) _ Epignosis_ , 'full knowledge,' 'personal recognition,' as Colossians 1:9 . glory (k-27) Many read 'by (his) own glory.'... [ Continue Reading ]
1:4 given (l-5) Or 'have been given.' partakers (m-19) _ Koinonos_ . Hebrews 2:14 .... [ Continue Reading ]
1:5 therewith (a-8) 'Bringing in besides,' or 'along with,' 'by the side of the other.' also (b-15) Lit 'supply,' 'furnish besides.' It is the aorist.... [ Continue Reading ]
1:6 temperance, (c-3) Or 'self control,' as Galatians 5:23 . 'Endurance' is _ hupomone_ . see James 5:7 .... [ Continue Reading ]
1:8 knowledge (d-20) See Note i, ver. 3.... [ Continue Reading ]
1:12 careful (e-5) Or 'use diligence,' 'take care it shall be so.'... [ Continue Reading ]
1:16 eyewitnesses (f-25) 'Admitted into immediate vision of the glory,' a word used for full initiation into the mysteries.... [ Continue Reading ]
1:17 received (g-3) Lit. 'for having received.' uttered (h-15) Or 'brought,' as 1 Peter 1:13 , or 'borne to him.' It is the passive aorist participle of the Greek word _ phero_ , from which the word translated 'impetuous' in Acts 2:2 is derived.... [ Continue Reading ]
1:18 uttered (h-6) Or 'brought,' as 1 Peter 1:13 , or 'borne to him.' It is the passive aorist participle of the Greek word _ phero_ , from which the word translated 'impetuous' in Acts 2:2 is derived.... [ Continue Reading ]
1:20 interpretation, (i-18) That is, 'it is not explained by its own meaning,' as a human statement. It must be understood by and according to the Spirit that uttered it. The 'prophecy' is, I take it, the sense of the prophecy, the thing meant by it. Now this is not gathered by a human interpretatio... [ Continue Reading ]
1:21 ever (k-5) Or 'heretofore.' uttered (l-6) As 'uttered' in vers. 17 and 18. See Note h. of (m-21) Lit. 'spake as borne by;' from the same Greek root as 'uttered,' vers. 17,18, and again in this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]