ήκούσαμεν aor. ind. act. от άκούω (G191) слышать, слушать,
ένεχθεΐσαν aor. pass. part. от φέρω (G5342) нести, брать. Temp. part., "когда мы были взяты"
όντες praes. act. part. от ειμί (G1510) быть. Temp. part., "когда (в то время, как) мы были на священной горе". Praes. обозначает на одновременное событие с действием основного гл.
Verse 18. _AND THIS VOICE - WE HEARD_] That is, himself, James, and John heard it, and saw this glory; for these only were the εποπται, beholders, on the holy mount. It is worthy of remark that our b...
AND THIS VOICE WHICH CAME FROM HEAVEN WE HEARD - To wit, Peter, and James, and John. WHEN WE WERE WITH HIM IN THE HOLY MOUNT - Called “holy” on account of the extraordinary manifestation of the Redeem...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE GRACIOUS PROVISIONS OF GOD CHAPTER 1 _ 1. God's gracious provisions in Christ (2 Peter 1:1)_ 2. The development of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:5) 3. The promises o...
THE MAN WHO OPENED DOORS (2 Peter 1:1) _ 1:1 Symeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, writes this letter to those to whom there has been allotted a faith equal in honour and privilege wit...
For it was not cleverly invented fables that we followed when we made known to you the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; it was because we were made eye-witnesses of his majesty. This hap...
HEAVEN. Singular. See Matthew 6:9; Matthew 6:10. HOLY. Because, and while, the Lord was there....
_And this voice which came from heaven we heard_ More accurately, as better expressing the force of the special word used here as in the previous verse, AND THIS VOICE BORNE FROM HEAVEN WE HEARD.… The...
ἘΝ ΤΩ͂Ι ἉΓΊΩΙ ὌΡΕΙ. It was the Transfiguration that made the mountain holy (Bigg), just as the vision of the Burning Bush made that site “holy ground” (Exodus 3:5). The “holy hill” _par excellence_ of...
Remember that we Apostles had ocular evidence for the truth of what we preach to you, for instance at the Transfiguration, when we saw the glory and heard the voice. ΜΎΘΟΙΣ ἘΞΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΉΣΑΝΤΕΣ is one of...
2 PETER 1:17-18 FOR HE RECEIVED FROM GOD THE FATHER HONOR AND GLORY, WHEN THERE WAS BORNE SUCH A VOICE TO HIM BY THE MAJESTIC GLORY, THIS IS MY BELOVED SON, IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED: AND THIS VOICE W...
And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. WHICH CAME - `we heard borne from heaven.' WE - James, and John, and myself. HOLY MOUNT - as the transfigura...
VERSE 18. AND THIS VOICE WHICH CAME FROM HEAVEN. And I further assert that the voice which we heard came from heaven, and that it occurred while we were with Jesus Christ in the holy mount. As witnes...
1 The introduction of the name Simeon, before Peter, and slave in addition to apostle, gives us a clue to the character of this second epistle. The emphasis is laid on practice rather than precept. It...
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...
GREEETING. THANKSGIVING. EXHORTATION TO PROGEESS IN RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM ONE WHO REMEMBERS JESUS CHRIST 2 Peter 1 may be subdivided into two parts: (_a_) 2 Peter 1:1, greeting followed by a declaration...
JESUS WILL RETURN PETER’S SECOND LETTER _HILDA BRIGHT AND HELEN POCOCK_ ABOUT THIS LETTER THE WRITER Peter wrote this letter. His name used to be Simon, but Jesus changed it to Peter (John 1:42...
Peter, James and John were with Jesus on the ‘holy mountain’. This mountain was either Mount Tabor or Mount Hermon. It was ‘holy’ because God spoke there. God spoke to Moses when he gave his law to Mo...
(16-21) The certainty of Christ’s coming again is the basis of these exhortations; and that certainty is proved (1) by the Transfiguration, which was an anticipation of His coming again in glory; (2)...
AND THIS VOICE WHICH CAME FROM HEAVEN WE HEARD. — Rather, _And this voice we heard borne from heaven:_ We were ear-witnesses of the voice coming from heaven, as we were eye-witnesses of His majesty. I...
CHAPTER 21 THE VOICE HEARD IN THE HOLY MOUNT 2 Peter 1:12 UP to this point the Apostle has spoken of God's abundant grace and the consequent duties of believers. And he has set forth these duties in...
_The fact of the Transfiguration a guarantee of the writer's truthfulness_. “For we are not without facts to rest upon. Our preaching of the power and coming of Jesus Christ was not based on sophistic...
ἐν τῷ ὄρει τῷ ἁγίῳ. The phrase indicates a view of the place and incident which has been taken up into and sanctified in the religious consciousness of the Church. _The Gnostic Acts of Peter_ use the...
“EYE-WITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY” 2 Peter 1:12 Peter could never forget what the Master had predicted of his death. See John 21:18. Oh, that in our death, whatever be its mode, we may glorify God! The f...
This Epistle was addressed to the same persons as was the first. Its purpose was to strengthen them in view of dangers threatening them within the Church. The apostle addressed them as having 'like pr...
RELIABLE TRUTHS Peter has been talking about writing this epistle to them so they would remember the important doctrines he, and others, had previously taught them. Now, he tells the reason for wantin...
"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. (13) Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this ta...
In the second Epistle of Peter (and here I must be brief, because of the hour; and I may be brief because Jude will afford us a further consideration of it) we have the same substantial truth of God's...
18._In the holy mount. _He calls it _the holy mount_, for the same reason that the ground was called holy where God appeared to Moses. For wherever the Lord comes, as he is the fountain of all holines...
The Second Epistle of Peter is even more simple than the First. Like those of Jude and John, it is written essentially with a view to the seducers, who, with large promises of liberty, beguiled souls...
AND THIS VOICE, WHICH CAME FROM HEAVEN, WE HEARD,.... Peter, who wrote this epistle, and James and John, the favourite disciples of Christ; and who were a sufficient number to bear witness of what the...
And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. Ver. 18. _When we were with him_] Witnesses of his glory, and the same were shortly after witnesses of his ago...
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-...
_For_ These things are worthy of being always remembered and regarded; for _we have not followed cunningly-devised fables_ Like those common among the heathen, but things infallibly true and infinitel...
IN THE HOLY MOUNT; Matthew 17:1-5....
AND THIS VOICE WHICH CAME FROM HEAVEN WE HEARD WHEN WE WERE WITH HIM IN THE HOLY MOUNT. That Peter had not forgotten the commission of the Lord given to him on the shores of the Sea of Galilee is show...
THE RELIABILITY OF THE GOSPEL AND OF THE PROPHECY. The apostles as witnesses of Christ's majesty:...
Peter writes not only as an apostle (as in his first epistle), but as a bondman and apostle. So authority is not only stressed, but lowliness of subjection, a precious reminder in days of deter-mined...
_2 Peter 1:18 ‘and we ourselves heard this utterance made from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.'_ ‘WE OURSELVES HEARD THIS UTTERANCE' -Along with Peter, James and John were also pres...
16-21 The gospel is no weak thing, but comes in power, Romans 1:16. The law sets before us our wretched state by sin, but there it leaves us. It discovers our disease, but does not make known the cur...
WE; I, and James, and John. HEARD: the apostle avoucheth himself to have been an ear-witness, as well as eye-witness, of Christ's glory, hereby intimating that there was as much certainty of the gospe...
Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book X Now the Logos of God controls all these; the first begotten Child of the Father, the voice of the Dawn antecedent to the Morning Star.[57]...
2 Peter 1:18 And G2532 we G2249 heard G191 (G5656) this G5026 voice G5456 came G5342 (G5685) from...
PETER CONFIRMS THAT WHAT HE HAS SAID ABOUT THE GLORY OF JESUS OUR LORD IS BASED ON HIS OWN FACTUAL EXPERIENCE (2 PETER 1:16). They have been called by His own glory and excellence (2 Peter 1:3), and h...
‘And this voice we ourselves heard borne out of heaven, when we were with him in the holy mount.' And what was more the voice had been heard by them all. They had heard it borne to them out of heaven...
2 Peter 1:18. AND THIS VOICE WE HEARD BORNE OUT OF HEAVEN, WHEN WE WERE WITH HIM IN THE HOLY MOUNT. The character of the Divine testimony to Christ is thus yet more carefully described, in respect bot...
The writer next expresses his resolution to use the brief portion of life now remaining to him in recalling the attention of his readers to the great truths to which he has been referring, and in maki...
THIS VOICE (ταυτην την φωνην). The one referred to in verse 2 Peter 1:17.WE HEARD (ηκουσαμεν). First aorist active indicative of ακουω, a definite experience of Peter.BROUGHT (ενεχθεισαν). "Bor...
HOLY MOUNT Where the reference is to things, the meaning of "holy" or "sanctified" is, simply, set apart for the use of God, or rendered sacred by the divine presence....
2 Peter 1:18 The Transfiguration: the Three Apostles. I. What was our Saviour's purpose in making the three Apostles His witnesses? There were trials to which the Apostles would be subjected, and aga...
2 Peter 1:9. _But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off,_ He is short-sighted; he has some light, and some physical sight, but he cannot see to a distance; spiritually, he is...
2 Peter 1:1. _Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:_ Peter here...
2 Peter 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, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty._ There is need in th...
CONTENTS: The great Christian virtues. God's Word exalted. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Peter. CONCLUSION: The Christian should be diligent to add one Christian grace to another that he may bring glory...
2 Peter 1:1. _Simon Peter,_ the Greek is Symeon, as in two other places of the Greek text. _To them that have obtained like precious faith,_ the christians of every name. _Through the righteousness of...
WE OURSELVES HEARD. _Lumby_ says: "We learn here why the Apostles were taken with Jesus to witness His transfiguration.. He, and the rest with him, felt no doubt, that such a death as Jesus had spoken...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 1:18 WE OURSELVES HEARD. Peter emphasizes that he and James and John were eyewitnesses to the transfiguration (Matthew 17:1)....
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 1:12 Peter’s Reminder to the Churches. Peter contrasts the truth about Christ and the falsehood of man-made myths. In light of this certain truth, the church should focus on li...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 2 Peter 1:16. FABLES.—Legends, myths. With special reference to the narrative of the marvels of the Transfiguration. COMING.—Whether this looks backward or onward is n...
EXPOSITION 2 PETER 1:1 SIMON PETER. "Symeon" seems to be the best-supported spelling in this place. The same form of the name is found in Luke 2:25 and Acts 13:1; it also occurs in...
Second Peter. Simon Peter (2 Peter 1:1), The name Simon, of course, was the given name. Peter is the name that Jesus gave to him. He is, a bondslave and an apostle (2 Peter 1:1) It seems that bond...
Exodus 3:1; Exodus 3:5; Genesis 28:16; Genesis 28:17; Isaiah 11:9;...
Voice [φ ω ν η ν]. Note the same word in the account of Pentecost (Acts 2:6), where the A. V. obscures the meaning by rendering, when this was noised abroad; whereas it should be when this voice was h...
A CALL TO GREATER THINGS 2 Peter 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The author of the Epistle. It is most refreshing and certainly inspiring to open the Bible and find an Epistle which is indited by the Hol...
And we — Peter, James, and John. St. John was still alive. Being with him in the holy mount — Made so by that glorious manifestation, as mount Horeb was of old, Exodus 3:4....