2 Pet. 1:10. "Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure; for he that doeth these things shall never fall." The apostle had exhorted to give diligence to add to our faith, virtue, etc. And tells us that if we do these things we shall not be barren and unfru... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Pet. 1:11, to the end. Verse 11, "_ So an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ._ " By _the kingdom_ seems to have been intended by the apostle, and to be understood by the Christians in those days, _the kingdom that Christ would set u... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Pet. 1:12. "_ Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them and be established in the present truth_." By the present truth seems to be intended the doctrine of Christ's second coming, because there were some apostates and false teachers am... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Pet. 1:16. "_ For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ._ " We, _i.e. _ the apostles, have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we taught you this _present _ truth of the second coming of our Lord Jesus Chris... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Pet. 1:16-18. "But were eye-witnesses of his majesty," etc. They, the apostles, had not only _heard_ him say, that he would come in his kingdom in power and great glory, but they were in a sort eye-witnesses of it, in that they were eye-witnesses of something in Christ that was a remarkable and wo... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Pet. 1:19. "_ We have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts_." By the word of prophecy is here meant, the standing written revelation that God had given to hi... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Pet. 1:20. "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation." That is, it is not men's speaking their own sense of things or interpreting their own minds, but the mind of God. That which is their sense is not always the sense or interpretation of Scripture. B... [ Continue Reading ]