2 Peter 1:10

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: WHEREFORE - seeing the blessed consequence of having, and the evil effects of not having, these graces (2 Peter 1:8). THE RATHER - the more earnestly. BRETHREN. The term, which only here he addresses to them, marks his affection, which constrains him so earnestly to urge them. TO MAKE, [ poieisthai (G4160), middle] - 'to make so far as it depends on you.' "To make" absolutely is God's part: in the active. YOUR CALLING AND ELECTION SURE - by 'ministering additionally in your faith virtue, and in your virtue knowledge,' etc. God must work all thes...

10._Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence. _He draws this conclusion, that it is one proof that we have been really elected, and not in vain called by the Lord, if a good conscience and integrity of life correspond with our profession of faith. And he infers, that there ought to be more labor and diligence, because he had said before, that faith ought not to be barren. Some copies have, “by good works;” but these words make no change in the sense, for they are to be understood though not expressed. (152) He mentions _calling _first, though the last in order. The reason is, because election is of greater weight or importance; and it is a right arrangement of a sentence to subjoin what preponderates. The meaning then is, labor that you may have it really proved that you have not been called nor elected in vain. At the same time he speaks here of calling as the effect and evidence...

1-11 Faith unites the weak believer to Christ, as really as it does the strong one, and purifies the heart of one as truly as of another; and every sincere believer is by his faith justified in the sight of God. Faith worketh godliness, and produces effects which no other grace in the soul can do. In Christ all fulness dwells, and pardon, peace, grace, and knowledge, and new principles, are thus given through the Holy Spirit. The promises to those who are partakers of a Divine nature, will cause us to inquire whether we are really renewed in the spirit of our minds; let us turn all these promises into prayers for the transforming and purifying grace of the Holy Spirit. The believer must add knowledge to his virtue, increasing acquaintance with the whole truth and will of God. We must add temperance to knowledge; moderation about worldly things; and add to temperance, patience, or cheerf...

Verse 10. _WHEREFORE_] Seeing the danger of apostasy, and the fearful end of them who obey not the Gospel, and thus receive the grace of God in vain; _give all diligence_, σπουδασατε, hasten, be deeply careful, labour with the most intense purpose of soul. _TO MAKE YOUR CALLING_] From deep Gentile darkness into the marvellous light of the Gospel. _AND ELECTION_] Your being _chosen_, in consequence of obeying the heavenly _calling_, to be the people and Church of God. Instead of κλησιν, _calling_, the _Codex Alexandrinus_ has παρακλησιν, _consolation_. _SURE_] βεβαιαν. _Firm, solid_. For your calling to believe the Gospel, and your _election_ to be members of the Church of Christ, will be ultimately unprofitable to you, unless you hold fast what you have received by adding to your faith virtue, knowledge, temperance, c....

WHEREFORE THE RATHER, BRETHREN, GIVE DILIGENCE - 2 Peter 1:5. “In view of these things, give the greater diligence to secure your salvation.” The considerations on which Peter based this appeal seem to have been the fact that such promises are made to us, and such hopes held out before us; the degree of uncertainty thrown over the whole matter of our personal salvation by low attainments in the divine life, and the dreadful condemnation which will ensue if in the end it shall be found that we are destitute of all real piety. The general thought is, that religion is of sufficient importance to claim our highest diligence, and to arouse us to the most earnest efforts to obtain the assurance of salvation. TO MAKE YOUR CALLING AND ELECTION SURE - On the meaning of the word “calling,” see the notes at...

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 Acts 15:14, where St. James refers to St. Peter's speech on the great question of the circumcision of Gentile Christians. It is the form always used in the Septuagint Version of the Old Testament. The old man's thoughts go back to his early years; he describes himself by the familiar name of his youth; he uses that Greek form of it which was most distinctively Jewish. But he joins with the old name, which spoke of Judaism, the

WHEREFORE THE RATHER, BRETHREN, GIVE DILIGENCE,.... To exercise the afore mentioned graces, and to perform the above duties, since this is the way TO MAKE YOUR CALLING AND ELECTION SURE; by calling is not meant a call to any office in the church, nor an external call, either by the voice of nature, or by the ministry of the word; but an internal and effectual call by special grace, to grace here, and glory hereafter; instead of "calling", the Alexandrian copy reads, "comfort": and by "election" is meant, not a national, nor church election, but a particular and personal one, since scattered saints, and particular believers, are here written to, and each called upon to be diligent to make their own, and not another's, calling and election sure; nor is a choice of persons to an office designed, seeing the apostle writes not to officers of churches in particular, but to believers in common...

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 uses both his names,-Simon or Simeon, which was his first name, and signifies «hearing with acceptance,» and happy are they who have the hearing ear and the receptive heart; and then there is what I may call his Christian name, the name which Christ gave him, Petros, or Cephas, a rock or stone. Those who learn to hear well, since faith cometh by hearing, may hope to obtain even greater stability of character than Peter had. Observe that Peter calls himself «a servant of Christ.» There is no higher honour than to be a servant of God. «To serve God is to reign.» An ancient philosopher was the author of that maxim, and Christianity fully endorses it. He is a true king who is a servant of God.

2 PETER 1:10 spouda,sate bebai,an … poiei/sqai {A} After spouda,sate several witnesses, including a A Y 81 630 and the Latin, Syriac, and Coptic versions, replace the complementary infinitive construction (which occurs regularly in the New Testament after spouda,zein) with the i[na construction; by a _lapsus calami,_ however, at the close of the clause a A and a few other witnesses absentmindedly retain the infinitive instead of the subjunctive poih/sqe (which, by itacism, was pronounced like poiei/sqai and poiei/sqe). At the same time t...

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 of prophecy (2 Peter 1:12) 2 Peter 1:1 We are not left in doubt who the writer is, not a pseudo Peter, but Simon Peter, the fisherman of Galilee. With this second Epistle he finishes the task given him by the Lord “to strengthen his brethren.” The opening verse of the third chapter shows that the Epistle is addressed to the same persons to whom he wrote the first Epistle. He gives his old name, Simon (or