George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
2 Peter 1:9
Groping, [2] like one that is blind. The Greek may signify one who hath his eyes shut, or that is like a blind mole. (Witham)
[BIBLIOGRAPHY]
Manu tentans, Greek: muopazon.
Groping, [2] like one that is blind. The Greek may signify one who hath his eyes shut, or that is like a blind mole. (Witham)
[BIBLIOGRAPHY]
Manu tentans, Greek: muopazon.
Verse 9. _BUT HE THAT LACKETH THESE THINGS_] He, whether Jew or Gentile, who professes to have FAITH in God, and has not added to that FAITH _fortitude, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness,_ _...
BUT HE THAT LACKETH THESE THINGS IS BLIND - He has no clear views of the nature and the requirements of religion. AND CANNOT SEE AFAR OFF - The word used here, which does not occur elsewhere in the Ne...
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 author writes to those who possess a faith not less honourable (precious) than that of the apostles themselves, since they, too, possess all things pertaining to life and godliness. But effort on...
For, if these things exist and increase within you, they will make you not ineffective and not unfruitful in your progress towards the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever does not possess...
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...
THAT LACKETH, &C. = to whom these things are not (App-105) present. AND CANNOT, &C. = being short-sighted. Greek. _muopazo._ Only here. AND HATH, &C. = having received forgetfulness (Greek. _lethe_....
_But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see far off_ More accurately, FOR HE TO WHOM THESE THINGS ARE NOT PRESENT IS BLIND, NEAR-SIGHTED. The causal conjunction is important in the sequ...
On the other hand their absence makes a man spiritually blind, or at least short-sighted. ΜΥΩΠΆΖΩΝ (the more natural form of the word would have been μυωπιάζων, cf. μυωπία) means screwing up the eyes...
ΠΆΡΕΣΤΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΆΡΕΙΜΙ (G3918) быть рядом, присутствовать, ΤΥΦΛΌΣ (G5185) слепой, ΜΥΩΠΆΖΩΝPRAES. _act. part. от_ ΜΥΩΠΆΖΩ (G3467) быть близоруким. Это слово обозначает непроизвольное...
DISCOURSE: 2419 THE CHRISTIAN’S GRACES 2 Peter 1:5. Beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and t...
AND CANNOT SEE AFAR OFF,— The word Μυωπαζων signifies literally _winking,_ or closing the eyes against the light. The apostle having represented the professed Christian, who is destitute of the graces...
2 PETER 1:8-9 FOR IF THESE THINGS ARE YOURS AND ABOUND, THEY MAKE YOU TO BE NOT IDLE OR UNFRUITFUL UNTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. FOR HE THAT LACKETH THESE THINGS IS BLIND, SEEING ONLY W...
But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. BUT, [ Gar (G1063)] - 'For.' Confirming the need of these graces (2 Pete...
VERSE 9. BUT HE THAT LACKETH THESE THINGS IS BLIND. The one that does not possess the qualities named is blind, morally blind. As natural blindness prevents the seeing of objects, so one morally blin...
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...
BLIND, AND CANNOT SEE FAR OFF] As in 1 Peter 1:11, the first statement is less exact than the second. He who cares not to progress loses his spiritual vision; the cleansing he received in baptism, and...
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...
Any Christian who does not have these qualities is like a blind person. He is not physically blind. His mind cannot ‘see’ (that is, understand) what God requires. Such a person has forgotten that God...
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...
BUT HE THAT LACKETH. — Rather, _for he that lacketh._ Geneva and Rheims have “for.” The “for” introduces the second reason for the exhortation to furnish forth all these graces — viz., the evil of not...
(3-11) Exhortation to progress in spiritual graces in order to win eternal life at Christ’s coming. God has given us all we need for salvation; let us profit by it, and show ourselves worthy of it....
CHAPTER 20 WHO SHALL ASCEND INTO THE HILL OF THE LORD? 2 Peter 1:5 THE Apostle has just set forth in all their fullness the riches of Divine grace: the precious faith, followed by the bestowal of al...
μυωπάζων : “short-sighted”. Only once elsewhere in Greek literature in Ps. Dionys. _Eccl. Hier._ ii. 3. This is one of the words to which exception has been taken in 2 Peter. It is both rare, and it s...
_Further emphasis on the connexion between faith and morality, and its reward_. “If you have these virtues, and are not sparing in your use of them, you will not be ineffective and unfruitful in the d...
THE RULE OF CHRISTIAN GROWTH 2 Peter 1:1/p> The keynote of this paragraph is _these things_, 2 Peter 1:8. _Precious faith_, 2 Peter 1:1, answers to _precious promises_,...
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...
AVOIDING SPIRITUAL MYOPIA BY DEVELOPING ETERNAL VISION The graces of verses 5-7, must be in the Christian and multiply if he would not become idle (See K.J.V. margin) and without fruit in the knowledg...
But he that lacketh these things is blind, and (i) cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. (i) He that has not an effectual knowledge of God in him, is blind con...
"Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, (3) According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, throu...
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...
9._But he that lacketh these things. _He now expresses more clearly that they who profess a naked faith are wholly without any true knowledge. He then says that they go astray like the blind in darkne...
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...
BUT HE THAT LACKETH THESE THINGS,.... Or in, and with whom, they are not; that is, these virtues, as the Arabic version reads, as faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly k...
But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Ver. 9. _But he that lacketh these_] Those that add not to their stock of...
_But he that lacketh these things_ And does not add them to his faith; _is blind_ With respect to spiritual things. The eyes of his understanding are again closed; he hath lost _the evidence of things...
BUT HE THAT LACKETH THESE THINGS IS BLIND AND CANNOT SEE AFAR OFF, AND HATH FORGOTTEN THAT HE WAS PURGED FROM HIS OLD SINS....
The fruitful diligence of the Christians:...
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 1:9 ‘For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.'_ ‘HE WHO LACKS THESE QUALITIES IS..' -A professed Christian can fai...
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 s...
BUT HE THAT LACKETH THESE THINGS; he that doth not live in the exercise of the forementioned graces. IS BLIND; spiritually blind, as being destitute of saving knowledge. AND CANNOT SEE AFAR OFF: the G...
2 Peter 1:9 For G1063 who G3739 lacks G3361 G3918 (G5748) things G5023 is G2076 (G5748) shortsighted...
A PLEA THAT THEY MAKE THEIR CALLING AND ELECTION SURE (2 PETER 1:9). Peter now points out that those whose lives fail to be continually fruitbearing in the way that he has described reveal that they...
‘For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near (shortsighted or blinking), having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.' In contrast those who neglect these things are short-si...
The writer starts at once, and in a somewhat abrupt and nervous fashion, with the great theme of advance in the spiritual life. He regards this as essential. He takes it for granted that it can be mad...
2 Peter 1:9. FOR HE WHO LACKETH THESE THINGS. This is one of two instances in which the A. V. strangely mistranslates the Greek causal particle ‘for' as ‘but.' The other is 1 Peter 4:15. In Romans 5:7...
HE THAT LACKETH THESE THINGS (ω μη παρεστιν ταυτα). "To whom (dative case of possession) these things are not (μη because a general or indefinite relative clause)."SEEING ONLY WHAT IS NEAR (μυωπαζ...
SINS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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...
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...
BUT WHOEVER. "The one who does not seize for himself and make an integral part of his life these qualities and attitudes I have mentioned, is purposely making himself blind to the truth of Christ, and...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 1:3 God’s Grace in Christ Is the Source of Godly Living. In this first main section, Peter emphasizes that God’s grace results in godliness....
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 1:9 The one who LACKS THESE QUALITIES (vv. 2 Peter 1:5) IS spiritually BLIND and has...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 2 Peter 1:5. BESIDE THIS.—“Yea, and for this very cause,” “on this very account.” DILIGENCE.—Or earnestness; putting heart into effort. ADD.—Better as R.V., “in your fa...
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...
1 John 1:7; 1 John 2:9; 1 Peter 3:21; 2 Corinthians 4:3; 2 Corint
But [γ α ρ]. Wrong. Render as Rev., for. He that lacketh these things [ω μ η π α ρ ε σ τ ι ν τ α υ τ α]. Lit., to whom these things are not present. Note that a different word is used here from that...
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...
But he that wanteth these — That does not add them to his faith. Is blind — The eyes of his understanding are again closed. He cannot see God, or his pardoning love. He has lost the evidence of things...