Ought ye to be (s7dpyew). See on ch. i. 8.
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Conversation (avactpodais). See on 1 Pet. i. 15. Rev., living.
Godliness (edceBeiais). See on ch. i. 38. Both words are plural; holy liwings and godlinesses.
12. Looking for (apocSoxavras)._ The same verb as in Luke i. 21, of waiting for Zacharias. Cornelius wadted (Acts x. 24); the cripple expecting to receive something (Acts iii. 5).
Hasting unto (o7edSovtas). Wrong. Rev., earnestly de- siring, for which there is authority. I am inclined to adopt, with Alford, Huther, Salmond, and Trench, the transitive mean- ing, hastening on ;-i.e., “causing the day of the Lord to come more quickly by helping to fulfil those conditions without which it cannot come; that day being no day inexorably fixed, but one the arrival of which it is free to the church to hasten on by faith and by prayer” (Trench, on “The Authorized Version of the New Testament”). See Matt. xxiv. 14: the gospel shall be preached in the whole world, “and then shall the end come.” Compare the words of Peter, Acts i, 19: “ Repent and be converted,” ete., “that so there may come seasons of refreshing ” (so Rey., rightly) ; and the prayer, “ Thy kingdom come.” Sal- mond quotes a rabbinical saying, “If thou keepest this precept thou hastenest the day of Messiah.” This meaning is given in margin of Rev.
Wherein (&¢ 4). Wrong. Rev., correctly, by reason of which.
Melt (tera). Literal. Stronger than the word in vv. 10, 11. Not only the resolving, but the wasting away of nature. Only here in New Testament.
13. We look for. The same verb as in ver. 12. It occurs three times in 12-14.
New (xawovs). See on Matt. xxvi. 29.
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14. Without spot and blameless. See on ch. ii. 13.
16. Hard to be understood (évovonta). Only here in New Testament.
They that are unlearned and unstable (of apadeis cai aoTnpictot). Both words are peculiar to Peter. On the latter, see on ch. ii. 14.
Wrest (ctpeBrodowv). Only here in New Testament. Mean- ing, originally, to hovst with a windlass or screw; to twist or dislocate the limbs on a rack. It isa singularly graphic word applied to the perversion of scripture.
The other scriptures (tas Nowrras ypadas). Showing that Paul’s epistles were ranked as scripture. See on Mark xii. 10.
17. Being led away (cuvatraySévtes). Better, Revy., carried away. It is the word used by Paul of Barnabas, when he dis- sembled with Peter at Antioch. ‘* Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation ” (Gal. ii. 18).
Of the wicked (a9écuwv). See on ch. ii. 7.
Fall from (éxéonte). Lit., “fall out of.’ Compare Gal. v. 4.
Steadfastness (otypuyyod). Only here in New Testament. See on ch. i. 12.