2 Peter - Verse-by-Verse Biblical Exegesis

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“Aion” is used in a doxological sense to describe the unceasing glory which shall ascend to God for all eternity. (R. Morey) The Christian life is a developing life, for it consists in getting to know at ever greater depth an inexhaustible Lord and Savior ... This emphasis on knowledge provides a goal for Christian development, and at the same time a warning against the false knowledge “so called” which the heretics professed. (M. Green) Contemporary popular Christianity, both the semi-modernists and the new-evangelicals, has seriously ignored Peter’s exhortation. They have fallen off their foundation and are carried away with various wicked errors. Anti-intellectualism is the root of their other disobediences. Serious study is decried as cold, dead orthodoxy. Spirituality is identified with fuzzy thinking and the empty platitudes that pass for piety. Will this perverse generation heed the apostle and studiously grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord? (G. Clark) The only possession we can carry on our trip to heaven is spiritual – Bible doctrine already stored in our souls. (R.B. Thieme, Jr.) “Resolved: To study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly, and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive, myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.” This was Jonathan Edwards’s personal application of 2 Peter 3:18. He gave himself assidulously to study the very words of God, and would not allow them to lie by him neglected. This was the wellspring of his profoundly Biblical rethinking of great theological questions. (J. Piper) To grow in grace is not subjective, based merely on experience and emotional happenings. It is objectively related to Peter’s key word knowledge. This is not just any knowledge; it is knowledge about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The verb “grow” is a present imperative, which could be rendered “be continually growing.” Without the initial knowledge there is no opportunity for growth. But if there is only that initial knowledge, the struggling new believer forgets “that he has been cleansed from his past sins.” (K. Gangel) Continuing growth is the unfailing panacea for all spiritual ills. (D. Hiebert) Experiential sanctification is related to Christian growth. Christians are immature in wisdom, knowledge, experience, and grace. In all these things they are appointed to grow, and their growth should be manifest. (J. Walvoord) True knowledge is not some esoteric information concerning a form or formula, a rite or a ritual; nor is it some secret order or password, as the Gnostics claimed. It is to know Jesus Christ as He is revealed to man in the Word of God. This is the secret of life and of Christian living. (J. McGee) Only in the power of the Holy Spirit can the believer grow, serve, and glorify God ... The preeminent responsibility of the Christian is to God: Study His Word, learn promises, techniques, and doctrines, grow spiritually, worship, witness, pray ... The Christian is kept alive on earth to fulfill his destiny, which is to become a mature believer, a spiritual winner, a “mature person to the measure of the maturity which belongs to the fullness of Christ.” The believer lives the Christian way of life by following God’s mandates, not by striving to fulfill his own legalistic idea of what ought to please God. (R.B. Thieme, Jr.) 2 Peter 3:18 But (contrast; rather, instead) keep on growing (auvxa,nw, PAImp.2P, Iterative, Command; increasing, forward momentum) by means of the grace (Instr. Means; logistical
grace) and (connective) the knowledge (Instr. Means) of our (Gen. Rel.) Lord (Descr. Gen.) and (connective) Savior (Descr. Gen.), Jesus Christ (Obj. Gen., apposition). To Him (Dat. Adv.) be (ellipsis) the glory (Pred. Nom.), both (connective) now (temporal; during the Church Age dispensation) and (continuative) to the day (Acc. Time) of eternity (Gen. Extent of Time; beginning after the Perfect Age). Acknowledge it (asseverative). BGT 2 Peter 3:18 auvxa,nete de. evn ca,riti kai. gnw,sei tou/ kuri,ou h`mw/n kai. swth/roj VIhsou/ Cristou/Å auvtw/| h` do,xa kai. nu/n kai. eivj h`me,ran aivw/nojÅ Îavmh,nÅÐ VUL 2 Peter 3:18 crescite vero in gratia et in cognitione Domini nostri et salvatoris Iesu Christi ipsi gloria et nunc et in die aeternitatis amen Resources James and Peter, William Baker, 2004, AMG Publishers The Second Epistle of Peter and the Epistle of Jude, Tyndale NT Commentaries, Michael Green, 1979, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing New Heavens, New Earth: A Commentary on First and Second Peter, Gordon H. Clark, 1972, The Trinity Foundation Epistles of Peter, Simon J. Kistemaker, New Testament Commentary, 2007, Baker Academic 2 Peter, B.C. Caffin, J.R. Thomson, C. New, U.R. Thomas, R. Finlayson, The Pulpit Commentary, 1962, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Class notes on 2 Peter, Dr. Dennis Wretlind, Western Theological Seminary Commentary on 2 Peter, Matthew Henry, 2001, Hendrickson Publishers 2 Peter: Word Pictures in the NT, A.T. Robertson, 1931, Baker Book House 2 Peter, John Calvin, 2003, Baker Books 2 Peter: Word Studies in the NT, Marvin R. Vincent, 1980, Charles Scribner’s Sons
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2 Peter Benjamin W. Brodie April 20
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2 Peter 1:15 Indeed, I will also ma
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2 Peter 2:11 Whereas angels [in hea
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2 Peter 3:6 Through which the world
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among them a deliberate ignorance o
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e our defense - knowledge. Where is
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necessary to see the Lord with our
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LWB 2 Peter 1:2 Grace to you and pr
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stress on knowledge. The more we re
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can really know Him ... Greater kno
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“world system” because Satan ha
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Because we are in union with Christ
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trembling endeavors by the side of
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TRANSLATION HIGHLIGHTS Peter contin
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which whosoever lives is counted de
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doctrine in daily life, the more th
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He who is not adding to his knowled
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very moment that Christ is received
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LWB 2 Peter 1:11 For in this manner
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VUL 2 Peter 1:12 propter quod incip
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eality” that Peter could choose b
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continual application (poie,w, PMIn
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KJV 2 Peter 1:17 For he received fr
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(K. Gangel) He means the entire Wor
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as they were borne on by the Holy S
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keeping them from sin and error. (S
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[of true doctrine] destructive here
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possibilities of our becoming "lose
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The sovereign grace of God which ac
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A clear meaning of agorazo stands o
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maligned (blasfhme,w, FPI3S, Predic
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infiltration of evil into the belie
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of their large numbers? (K. Gangel)
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This form of judgment was by “red
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that they are Christians ... Even a
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chose to live in Jordan’s fertile
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In my opinion, Peter returns to the
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occasionally occurs whether we unde
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Three times in as many verses Peter
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as “stains” on the church and
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people through false prophecy for m
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