Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Peter 1:15
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15. endeavour —"use my diligence": the same Greek word as in :- : this is the field in which my diligence has scope. Peter thus fulfils Christ's charge, "Feed My sheep" ( John 21:16 ; John 21:17 ). decease —"departure." The very word ("exodus") used in the Transfiguration, Moses and Elias conversing about Christ's decease ( found nowhere else in the New Testament, but John 21:17- : , "the departing of Israel" out of Egypt, to which the saints' deliverance from the present bondage of corruption answers). "Tabernacle" is another term found here as well as there ( Luke 9:31 ; Luke 9:33 ): an undesigned coincidence confirming Peter's authorship of this Epistle. that ye may be able —by the help of this written Epistle; and perhaps also of Mark's Gospel, which Peter superintended. always — Greek, "on each occasion": as often as occasion may require. to have . . . in remembrance — Greek, "to exercise remembrance of." Not merely "to remember," as sometimes we do, things we care not about; but "have them in (earnest) remembrance," as momentous and precious truths. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-16" class="com-number"
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