12 Wherefore I will nor be negligent z to put you always in remembrance of theſe things, though you
know them -,and be eſtabliſhed in the preſent truth y. u 7.e, I will be diligent and careful. x He prevents ah Objetti-
great moment, and you being beſet with temptations, encompaſſed about with infirmities, and while you are on the Earth, being in a Land of Forgetfulneſs, it 1s necefſary to put you in mind of what
| you know, that ye may remember to do it. See the like Rom. 15. -
14,15. and 1 John2.21. y The truthof the Goſpel now revealed to you; that which was the great Subje& of the Apoſtle's Preaching and Writings that Jeſus was the Chriſt; that Redemption was wrought by him ; that he was riſen from the dead ; That whoſoever believed on him, ſhould receive Remiſſion of Sins, gyc. the Promiſe made to the Fathers being now fulfilled, 4#s 13. 32, 33. and what was future under the Old-Teſtament, being preſent under the New.
.13 Yea, I think it meet as long as I am in this
membrance.
z In the Body; 9.d. having not long to live, I would live to the beſt purpoſe, and ſo as I may do the moſt Good. He calls his Body a Tabernacle, both in reſpe& of its ſhort continuance, its mean ſtructure, and his labarious life in it. 4 To awaken and rouze you- up, as ye have need, the Fleſh being ſlothful ; and leſt ye ſhould by ſecurity and ſlightneſs loſe the Benefit of what ye have - : where Knowledge is not wanting, yet Admonitions may be uſeful.
14 * Knowing that ſhortly
b A Metaphor taken from Garments ; the Soul while in the Body,
off their Clothes, and going to Bed, Iſa. 57. 2. c See 2 Cor. 5s I. d 7obn 21, Chriſt tells Peter of the kind of his Death, that it ſhould be violent, but ſpeaks nothing there of the circumſtance of the time; and therefore either this Apoſtle had a twoſold Revelation of his Death, the former as to the manner of it, and this latter con- cerning the time : Or, if this here wereno other Revelation but that, Fohn 21. it may be ſaid, that v. 18,22, Chriſt intimates that Pe- ter's Death ſhould bz before Fohn's, who ſhould live till he came, viz. in, Judgment againſt Jeruſalem to deſtroy it, which Peter now (obſerving the Affairs of the Fews, and conſidering his Maſters words, Matth. 24.) perceived to 'be nigh at hand ; and thence in- fers, that his own Death was not far off.
15 Moreover, I will endeavour that ye may beable
after my deceaſe, to have theſe things e always f in
remembrance g. e The.
on, g. d. tho' ye know theſe things already, yet being things of +
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tabernacle 2, to * ſtir you up «, by putting you in re- * Ch.z.1.
I muſt put off b zhzs my * Sec rabernacle c, even as + our Lord Jeſus Chriſt hath P42
ſhewed me d. 2 Tim.4.6.
ohn 21
is clothed with Fleſh, and Death to the Godly is but the puttitig jg 15,
hn 3.
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Praice of good Works, and their continuance in both. f This may be joyned either to endeavour, and fo relate to the Apoſtle himſelf ; he would always be diligent, and do his part, that they might have theſe things in remembrance : or rather, (according to our Tranſlation) to having in remembrance, Peter being now near his end; and therefore this always, may better refer to them that were to live after him, than to himſelf that was ſo ſoon to die. g Or, fo commemorate them, viz. to the Benefit, and Edification of the Church, and this includes their having them in remembrance, but implies ſomething more.
16 For we have not followed * cunningly deviſed fables hb, when we made known unto you the power 7, and coming #& of our Lord Jeſus Chriltt, but were T eye-witnefles of his m_ /.
h Humane Figments artificially contrived, either to pleaſe and gratifle Mens Fancies, or to deceive and pervert their Judgment ; q. d. The things we have preached unto you (the Sum of which 15 the Power and Coming of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt) are the true Saying$ of God, not the Fi&ions .of Men ; and ſo he may have re- ſpe both to Heatheniſh and Jewiſh Fables. See 1 Tim. I. 4, 6 4+ 7: 2 Tim. 4.4. Tit. 1.14. i This relates to the Divine Nature of Chriſt with its glorious Effe&ts, the Ethcacy of hy Dodrine, the Miracles whereby he confirmed it, and eſpecially his Reſurre&ion from the Dead, Rom. 1. 4. & This reſpe&s his Humane Nature, his coming in the Fleſh, in which he manifeſted the Power betfore- mentioned ; both together contain the Sum of the whole Goſpel, viz. That Chriſt, the promiſed Meſſiah, is come in the Fleſh, and that he was furniſhed with Power ſufficient, and Ability to ſave Sinners to the utmoſt. Or, Chriſt's coming here may be his ſecond coming, to which the word here uſed is for. the moſt part applied in the New-Teſtament, and whereot his Transfiguration in the fol- lowing Verſe was a Repreſentation, and a Fore-runner ; and in the Belief of which the Apoſtle would confirm theſe Saints againſt thoſe that ſcoffed at it, ch. 3. v. 3,4. 1 By Chriſt's Majeſty may be un- derſtood all that Glory which did ſhine out in him during the whole time of his abode upon Earth, 7ohn 1. 14. but eſpecially that more eminent manifeſtation of it in his Transfiguration in the next Verſe.
17 For he received troin God the Father honour, and glory m, when there came ſuch a voice to him from the excellent glory z, * This is o my beloved Son, in whom p I am well pleaſed.
m Either Hmur and Glory, for glorious Honour ; or Glory may relate to that Luſtre which appeared in the Body of Chriſt at his Transfizuration, Mat th. 17. 2. and Hur to the Voice which came to him from his Father, and the honourable Teſtimony thereby gt- ven him. n Either from Heaven, or from the glorious Ged the Father of Chriſt, who, by this Voice, did in a ſpecial . manner manifeſt his glorious Preſence. 9 #. e. This is the Meſſiah ſo often promiſed, and therefore all that was ſpoken of the Meſſiah in the Law and the Prophets, centers in him. p This 1mplies not only that Chriſt is peculiarly the Beloved of the Father, but that all they that are adopted to God by Faith in Chriſt, are beloved, and graci- ouſly accepted in and through him, Matth, 3.17. Fohn 17. 26. Ephel. 1.6.
13 And this voice which came from Heaven we 7 heard 7, when we were with him in the holy / mount.
q 1, and James, and John. The Apoſtle avoucheth himſelf to