Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

2 Peter 1:11

Note the accumulation in this verse of words suggesting splendour and fulness. ἐπιχορηγηθήσεται. Cf. note on 2 Peter 1:5. Mayor says that here the word “suggests the ordering of a triumphal procession,” and compares Plut. Vit. 994, ὁ δῆμος ἐθεᾶτο τὰς θέας ἀφειδῶς πάνυ χορηγουμένας. εἴσοδος. Cf. Hebrews 10:19. In a theatre, εἰς. is the place of entrance for the chorus (Ar. Nub. 326; Av. 296), and in P. Par. ii. 41, we find εἴσοδος κοινή = of the door of a house. The great description of the entrance of the pilgrims into the celestial city in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Pt. 1., may be quoted in illustration. αἰώνιον βασιλείαν. does not occur elsewhere in N.T. or Apostolic Fathers (cf. Aristotle's Apol. xvi., and Clem. Hom. x. 25), but αἰωνίου ἀρχῆς occurs in the Stratonicean inscriptions already quoted (Deissmann, op. cit. p. 361).

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