2 Peter 1:5

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; AND BESIDES THIS [ auto (G846) de (G1161) touto (G5124), 'Aleph (') B C (A, autoi (G846) de (G1161), yourselves also)] - 'And for this very reason,' namely, 'seeing that His divine power hath given all things that pertain to life and godliness' (2 Peter 1:3). GIVING, [ pareisenengkantes (G3923)] - introducing, sid...

5_And besides this. _As it is a work arduous and of immense labor, to put off the corruption which is in us, he bids us to strive and make every effort for this purpose. He intimates that no place is to be given in this case to sloth, and that we ought to obey God calling us, not slowly or carelessly, but that there is need of alacrity; as though he had said, “Put forth every effort, and make your exertions manifest to all.” — For this is what the participle he uses imports. _Add to your faith virtue, _or, _Supply to your faith virtue_. He shews for what purpose the faithful were to strive, that is, that they might have faith adorned with good morals, wisdom, patience, and love. Then he intimates that faith ought not to be naked or empty, but that these are its inseparable companions. To supply to faith, is to add to faith. There is not here, however, properly a gradation as to the sense...

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 5. _AND BESIDE THIS_] Notwithstanding what God hath done for you, in order that ye may not receive the grace of God in vain; _GIVING ALL DILIGENCE_] _Furnishing_ all _earnestness_ and _activity_: the original is very emphatic. _ADD TO YOUR FAITH_] επιχορηγησατε. _Lead up hand in hand_; alluding, as most think, to the _chorus_ in the Grecian dance, who danced with joined hands. 2 Corinthians 9:10. _Your faith _- That faith in Jesus by which ye have been led to embrace the whole Gospel, and by which ye have the evidence of things unseen. _VIRTUE_] αρετην. _Courage_ or _fortitude_, to enable you to profess the faith before men, in these times of persecution. _KNOWLEDGE_] True wisdom, by which

AND BESIDE THIS - Καὶ αὐτὸ τοῦτο Kai auto touto. Something here is necessary to be understood in order to complete the sense. The reference is to 2 Peter 1:3; and the connection is, since 2 Peter 1:3 God has given us these exalted privileges and hopes, “in respect to this,” (κατὰ kata or διὰ dia being understood,) or as a “consequence” fairly flowing from this, we ought to give all diligence that we may make good use of these advantages, and secure as high attainments as we possibly can. We should add one virtue to another, that we may reach the highest possible elevation in holiness....

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

AND BESIDES THIS, GIVING ALL DILIGENCE,.... "Or upon this", as the Syriac and Arabic versions read, bestow all your labour, diligence, and care; namely, on what follows, and that from the consideration of what goes before; for nothing can more strongly animate, and engage to the diligent exercise of grace and discharge of duty, than a consideration of the high favours, and free grace gifts of God, and the exceeding great and precious promises of his Gospel: ADD TO YOUR FAITH VIRTUE; or "with your faith", so the Arabic version renders it, and the like, in the following clauses. They had faith, even like precious faith with the apostles, not of themselves, but by the gift of God, and which is the first and principal grace; it leads the van, or rather the "chorus", as the word rendered "add" signifies; and though it is in itself imperfect, has many things lacking in it, yet it cannot be ad...

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 1:5 auvto. tou/to de, {B} By moving de, from following tou/to (î72 B C* P _al_) to precede tou/to (a C2 Y 33 81 1739 _al_), the adverbial expression auvto. tou/to is divided in two. This reading, obviously faulty, is probably the origin of the reading in A (auvtoi. de,)....

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