The Pulpit Commentary — 2 Peter — Section 97

SECOND EPISTLE GENERAL OF PETER. TnEH'B P AG It CHAPTER L The Christian Virtues in their Com- THEHZ P.lOE pleteness 36 The Address 11 Putting in Mind .. , 40 Exhortation to Earnest Effort 13 Reasons for Diligence in his Apostolic CHAPTER II. Work... 15 Pater's Primacy , . , 18 Warning ago.inst False Teachers 50 The Bounty of God 19 Description of the False Teachers 53 Partakers of a Divine Nature 20 Denying the M1LSter 55 Witness to Christ .. . 21 "A Preacher of Righteonsness" 56 The Lamp and the Dawn .. , 22 Deliverance and Condemnation 5i God's Voice in the Bible ... 23 'fhe Sinner's Hire 58 Increase of Spiritual Life dependent on Slaves promise Liberty! 59 the Knowledge of God . . . 24 "The Way of Righteqnsness" 59 The Sanctifying Power of the Promises 25 False Teachers 60 Personal Diligence needed for Sancti- fication 26 CHAPTER III. The Saint's Earnest Endeavour to en- The Certo.inty of the Lord's Coming 71 force Spiritual Truth 28 Exhortations 74 Certninty concerning Christ the Secret " The Promise of his Coming" 78 of Spiritual Earnestness . .. 29 The Eternal's Independence of Time 78 Certainty about Christ the Result of The Abode of Righteonsness 79 giving Heed to the Divine Word ... 31 Diligence SO Divino Blessing by Human Channels 32 Divine Long-suffering 80 The Beginning of Soul-Salvation S3 Growth... Sl True Christian Character ... 33 The Divine Col'"')mndment 83 The Goal of Christian Charactei: 34 Destiny and Duty S3 An Old Man's Aim 34 A Tender Concluding AppMI 84 Threefold Testimony to the Truth of Fact of Second Coming, especially Christianity 34 in its Accompaniments .. . 84 Addl'ess and Su.lutation 45 Duty in View of Second Coming 88