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posed to partakers , so corruption through lust is opposed to the Divine nature. Moreover glory and corruption , virtue and lust ,
are contraries. And thus the title, the Divine nature , includes glory and virtue ; and the same is called the Divine power , inasmuch as it is the origin of all that is good ; and the Divine nature , inas- much as it admits us to itself. But there is a gradation ; and these two things differ as a part and the whole, namely, to receive the gifts of the Divine power (dum/Asws), and to be a partaker of the Divine nature, that is, to become holy ; comp. Rom. i. 20. — acropuyoms, escaping ) hastily and swiftly. <t>guyw, I flee ; anopevyu, I flee from , escape. This flight is here put, not so much for our duty, as for a Divine benefit, accompanying communion with God ; comp. ch. ii. 18, 20. — rJjs h iv krttfapiy (p&opag, the corruption
which is in the world through lust) ch. ii. 20, 18, 19. The senti- ment is : In the world is corruption through lust.
5. K a/, even) also. — a vro rooro, this very thing1) The answer of the godly towards the Divine gifts is accurately expressed. A uro toZto is used as it were adverbially, for xur avro rovro, u according to this very thing.” — ff-rovdyv, diligence ) Diligence comprises many things ; 2 Cor. vii. 11, note ; and in Peter the things which follow : whence give diligence , ver. 10, refers to this ; and so, to endeavour , ver. 15, iii. 14. — ‘Trupenrsv'e'yxavreg, introducing) rrapd, by the way , indicates modesty. God acts : we are diligent. — emyopr\yr\cari} supply , exhibit , minister additionally) The corresponding word is, shall be supplied or minister ed, ver. 11. Our diligence follows the gifts of God ; an entrance into the kingdom follows our diligence. — sv rfi cr/m/, in the faith) This is called knowledge , ver. 3, by which grace and truth are recognised ; and God supplies this to us, just as He does life . Faith is the gift of God ; Eph. ii. 8 : therefore we are not commanded to minister additionally faith, but in faith those fruits wdiich are mentioned, to the number of seven, faith leading the band,2 and love bringing up the rear. — u/xwi/, your) Taken with faith; 1 Pet. i. 7, 9, 21. — rqv dperriv, virtue) by which you may imitate the virtue of God, ver. 3, and actively perform all things which the spiritual life undertakes. Every present step
1 But the reading ccvrol Se rovra (but to this very thing, etc.), both in the margin of both Editions, and in the Germ. Version, is preferred to the other.— E. B.
A vroi be is the reading of A and Vulg., “vos autem so Lachm. Avro rovro be in B (judging from the silence of collators) and later Syr. : so Tisch. — E.
2 The Chorus ; referring to the Choragus in a Greek choir ; em yfipnye'iv. — E
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