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The putting off of my tabernacle (hē apothesis tou skēnnōmatos mou). For apothesis see note on 1Pe 3:21 and for skēnōma see note on 2Pe 1:13. For the metaphor see 2Co 5:3.
Cometh swiftly (tachinē estin). Late adjective (Theocritus, lxx, inscription), in N.T. only here and 2Pe 2:1. It is not clear whether tachinos means soon or speedy as in Isa 59:7 and like tachus in Jam 1:19, or sudden, like tachus in Plato (Republ. 553 D). Either sense agrees with the urgent tone of Peter here, whether he felt his death to be near or violent or both.
Signified unto me (edēlōsen moi). First aorist active indicative of dēloō, old verb (from delos), as in 1Pe 1:11. Peter refers to the incident told in Joh 21:18., which he knew by personal experience before John wrote it down.