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11. nXou<r/w$) abundantly ; so that at any time, without stumbling , you may be able to enter, not as having escaped from a shipwreck, or from fire, but as it were in triumph; and that things past, things present, and things to come may profit you. Here Peter does not now say, scarcely , as in his first Epistle, iv. 8. This ex- pression answers to abound , in ver. 8.
12. Ail , wherefore) He speaks from an anticipation of his own
immediate departure and entrance into the kingdom ; ver. 15, 11. — IJisWijGb) v'xag as/' vno/MjuviiGxeii') The force of this reading will scarcely be understood by those who are not adequately experienced in the usages of the Greek language, or at any rate by those who have not a nice perception of the beauties of the verb /asXXw. The more recent Greeks themselves have written oujc d/^sX^w, I will not be negligent, from //,sXX?j<rw MsXXs/v, in German, sollen, to owe. Thus Gregory of Neocaesareia, dperag eye iv sn /AXXw, 1 do not yet possess virtues. — Panegyric on Origen, pp. 86, 203, ed. Stutgard. And it is commonly said, he ought to come ; that is, he is not yet come. And thus Peter says, I will regard you as always (needing) to be admonished : I will never think how much I have admonished you ; I will think this only, that you ought to be admonished by me. The present, //-sXXw, conveys the notion of a future action ; wherefore /xsXX?j(rw is an accumulated future ; I shall be about to admonish. Hesy chius, /xsXX^c&j, G-rovddGco, I will earnestly endeavour. And this very synonym, GvovdaGoj, follows shortly after in ver. 15, where the earnestness (Grro\)br\) of the apostle is also to be observed ex- tending itself by letters even beyond (after) his decease ; and thence the appropriate use of the word /4>^//,?j (memory), with reference to his death. Ammonius, ph y/Wa / vexpow /uvela de £ uvrog .
fjjvriw is said with reference to the dead , and /m/a, with reference to the living. See Eccles. i. 11, etc., Septuagint. — as/', always) He gives the reason w'hy he writes a second epistle so shortly after the first. Peter regards it as a fixed principle, that there is more and more need of admonition on account of the increasing corruption of wicked men : cli. ii. 2. — eidorag , knoiving) the truth. — cGr7)piy/j,evovg, established) Closely connected with this is the word dieyeipeivy to stir up , ver. 13. He wishes them to be both firm and as much on the alert as possible. — vapovGri) present) Truth is present, as in the New Testament : 1 Pet. v. 1 2, note.
1 Ms Xhri<ja is read by ABO Vulg. Memph. Theb. But Rec. Text, without any of the oldest authorities, has ovk elite hiiooi. — E.