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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 eye-witnesses of His majesty.
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 eye-witnesses of His majesty.
Verse 16. _CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES_] σεσοφισμενοιςμυθοις. I think, with Macknight and others, from the apostle's using εποπται, _eye witnesses_, or rather _beholders_, in the end of the verse, it is...
FOR WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES - That is, fictions or stories invented by artful men, and resting on no solid foundation. The doctrines which they held about the coming of the Savio...
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...
FOLLOWED. Greek. _exakoloutheo._ Only here and 2 Peter 2:2; 2 Peter 2:15. CUNNINGLY, &C. Greek. _sophi_. _o_. See 2 Timothy 3:15. FABLES. See...
_For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you_ More accurately, FOR IT WAS NOT AS FOLLOWING CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES THAT WE MADE KNOWN the connexion being one not 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...
ΣΕΣΟΦΙΣΜΈΝΟΙΣ _perf. pass. part. (adj.) от_ ΣΟΦΊΖΩ (G4679) делать мудрым, быть мудрым, вести себя мудро, разумно рассуждать, задумывать мудро (Mayor; Kelly; BAGD). Здесь в значении хитро задуманный, р...
DISCOURSE: 2422 THE TRUTH AND CERTAINTY OF THE GOSPEL 2 Peter 1:16. _We have not followed cunningly-devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ_. AMONGST...
CUNNINGLY-DEVISED FABLES,— _Sophistical fables._ Benson. _For there was nothing fabulous, or artfully invented, in the information that we gave you, of the powerful advent of our Lord Jesus Christ; bu...
2. The certain and trustworthy sources of saving knowledge, 2 Peter 1:16-21 2 Peter 1:16 For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord...
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. FOR - reason why he is so earnest...
VERSE 16. FOR WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES. The gospel of Christ is no fable. About it there is no myth. There is no mistake or room for doubt. WHEN WE MADE KNOWN. That is, when we...
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...
1:16 eyewitnesses (f-25) 'Admitted into immediate vision of the glory,' a word used for full initiation into the mysteries....
COMING] i.e. Second Coming, in that glory of which a glimpse was given at the Transfiguration....
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 and the other *apostles had told people that Jesus would return. The *Greek word for ‘return’ means ‘the splendid arrival of a king’. It describes the way that Jesus will return. He will have gr...
FOR WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED. — More literally, _For we did not follow,_ or, _It was not by following out, &c., that. “_For” introduces the reason for “I will endeavour” above. The word for “follow,” or “...
(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)...
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...
σεσοφισμ. μύθ. _Cf._ σεσοφισμένη μήτηρ.: “suppositious mother”. Greg. Nyss. i. 171 D. This is evidently the character attributed to the facts of the Christian Gospel by the False Teachers. They specia...
_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...
“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...
(10) 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. (10) Another amplification tak...
_We have not by following artificial fables. Literally, learned fables, [6] invented to promote our doctrine. We, I with others, were eye-witnesses of his glory on Mount Thabor. [Matthew xvii. 2.] (Wi...
"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...
16._For we have not followed cunningly devised fables. _It gives us much courage, when we know that we labor in a matter that is certain. Lest, then, the faithful should think that in these labors the...
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...
FOR WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES,.... Such as Jewish fables, cautioned against Titus 1:14 which their traditionary and oral law, their Talmud, and other writings, mention; as concerni...
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. Ver. 16. _Cunningly devised fables_...
2 Pet. 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._ " We, _i.e. _ the apostles, have not followed cunningly d...
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...
COMING OF OUR LORD; his second coming in that divine majesty of which the apostle and his two companions had a glimpse on the mount of transfiguration....
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 1:16 ‘For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.'_ ‘FOR WE' -“We”-Peter sw...
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...
CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES; human figments artificially contrived, either to please and gratify men's fancies, or to deceive and pervert their judgment: q.d. The things we have preached unto you (the su...
2 Peter 1:16 For G1063 did G1811 not G3756 follow G1811 (G5660) devised G4679 (G5772) fables G3454 known...
‘For we did not follow cunningly devised fables (myths), when we made known to you the power and coming (parousia) of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.' He wants them to...
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...
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...
2 Peter 1:16. FOR WE DID NOT FOLLOW CUNNINGLY DEVISED MYTHS, WHEN WE MADE KNOWN TO YOU THE POWER AND COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. The change from the ‘I' which the writer has used through 2 Peter...
WE DID NOT FOLLOW (ουκ εξακολουθησαντες). First aorist active participle of εξακολουθεω, late compound verb, to follow out (Polybius, Plutarch, LXX, papyri, inscriptions as of death following for a...
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...
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...
WE HAVE NOT. See 1 Timothy 1:4; 1 Timothy 4:7; Titus 1:14. Peter points to the real, historical Christ Jesus. MIGHTY COMING. This must be the First Coming, since: (1) the context speaks of history; (2...
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...
2 PETER—NOTE ON 2 PETER 1:16 CLEVERLY DEVISED MYTHS. “Myth” here means “a story without basis in fact.” The gospel of Christ was no myth. The apostles WERE EYEWITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY at the transfigu...
_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...
1 Corinthians 1:17; 1 Corinthians 1:23; 1 Corinthians 1:7; 1 Corinthians 2:1;...
We have not followed [ο υ ε ξ α κ ο λ ο υ θ η σ α ν τ ε ς]. A strong compound, used only here and ch. 2 2, 15. The ejx gives the force of following out; in pursuance of; closely. Cunningly devised [σ...
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...
These things are worthy to be always had in remembrance For they are not cunningly devised fables — Like those common among the heathens. While we made known to you the power and coming — That is, the...
Our apostle comes now to exhort them to constancy in the faith of the gospel, assuring them that himself and his fellow-apostles had not followed artificially devised fables, when they made known to t...