2 Peter 1:3

According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: ACCORDING AS. 'As He hath given us ALL things needful for life and godliness, (so) do you give ALL diligence,' etc. The oil and flame are given wholly by God's grace, and 'taken' by believers: their part is to 'trim their lamps,' (cf. 2 Peter 1:3, with 2 Peter 1:5, etc.) LIFE AND GODLINESS. Spiritual life mast exist first, before there can be godliness. Knowledge of God experimentally is life (John 17:3). The child must have vital breath, then cry to, and walk in the ways of, his father. It i...

3._According as his divine power. _He refers to the infinite goodness of God which they had already experienced, that they might more fully understand it for the future. For he continues the course of his benevolence perpetually to the end, except when we ourselves break it off by our unbelief; for he possesses exhaustless power and an equal will to do good. Hence the Apostle justly animates the faithful to entertain good hope by the consideration of the former benefits of God. (146) For the same purpose is the amplification which he makes; for he might have spoken more simply, “As he has freely given us all things.” But by mentioning “divine power,” he rises higher, that is, that God has copiously unfolded the immense resources of his power. But the latter clause may be referred to Christ as well as to the Father, but both are suitable. It may however be more fitly applied to Christ, as...

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 2 Peter 1:3. _AS HIS DIVINE POWER_] His power, which no power can resist, because it is _Divine_-that which properly belongs to the infinite Godhead. _HATH GIVEN UNTO US_] δεδωρημενης. _Hath endowed us with the_ _gifts_; or, hath _gifted us_, as Dr. _Macknight_ translates it, who observes that it refers to the gifts which the Holy Spirit communicated to the apostles, to enable them to bring men to _life_ and _godliness_; which were, 1. A complete knowledge of the doctrines of the Gospel. 2. Power to preach and defend their doctrines in suitable language, which their adversaries were not able to gainsay or resist. 3. Wisdom to direct them how to behave in all cases, _where_ and _when_ to labour; and the _matter_ suitable to all different cases, and every variety of persons. 4. Miraculous powers, so th

ACCORDING AS HIS DIVINE POWER HATH GIVEN UNTO US - All the effects of the gospel on the human heart are, in the Scriptures, traced to the power of God. See the notes at Romans 1:16. There are no moral means which have ever been used that have such power as the gospel; none through which God has done so much in changing the character and affecting the destiny of man. ALL THINGS THAT PERTAIN UNTO LIFE AND GODLINESS - The reference here in the word “life” is undoubtedly to the life of religion; the life of the soul imparted by the gospel. The word “godliness” is synonymous with piety. The phrase “according as” (ὡς hōs) seems to be connected with the sentence in 2 Peter 1:5, “Forasmuch as

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

ACCORDING AS HIS DIVINE POWER,.... Meaning either the power of God the Father, to whom belong eternal power and Godhead; and he is sometimes called by the name of power itself; see Matthew 26:64 being all powerful and mighty; or rather the power of Christ, since he is the next and immediate antecedent to this relative; and who, as he has the fulness of the Godhead in him, is almighty, and can do all things; and is "El-shaddai", God all-sufficient, and can communicate all things whatsoever he pleases, and does, as follows: for he HATH GIVEN UNTO US ALL THINGS THAT PERTAIN UNTO LIFE AND GODLINESS; referring not so much to a temporal life, though he gives that and preserves it, and furnishes with all the mercies and comforts of it; and which come to us, from him, in a covenant way, as his left hand blessings, and in great love; but rather a spiritual life, which he is the

2 Peter 1:1. _Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, Peter was pleased to be able to write those words._ There was a time when he had thrice denied his Master, but now he is glad to call himself «a servant of Jesus Christ.» Once he had said, «I know not the man,» but now he claims that he has been sent out by that glorious Lord to be his apostle,-a sent one,-«a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ.» Probably he had ringing in his ears, at that moment, those blessed words, «Feed my sheep; feed my lambs;» and he was going to do that work again in this his second general Epistle. 2 Peter 1:1. _To them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ._ These Epistles are not written to everybody. Som

2 PETER 1:3 ivdi,a| do,xh| kai. avreth|/ {B} Although the reading of the Textus Receptus dia. do,xhj kai. avreth/j is an exceedingly ancient reading (î72 B, and K L most minuscules), a majority of the Committee preferred ivdi,a| do,xh| kai. avreth|/ (a A C P Y 33 81 614 1739 ith, r vg syrph, h, pal copsa, bo arm (Speculum)) on the strength of the following considerations: (_a_) it is attested by a broad spectrum of witnesses, including all ancient versions; (_b_) the presence of several other instances of dia, in the context makes it more likely that dia, would have been wri...

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