Robertson Word Pictures - 2 Peter 1:2 - 1:2

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Robertson Word Pictures - 2 Peter 1:2 - 1:2


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Be multiplied (plēthuntheiē). First aorist passive optative of plēthunō in a wish for the future (volitive use) as in 1Pe 1:2; Jud 1:2.

In the knowledge (en epignōsei). Full (additional, epi) knowledge as in 2Pe 1:8 (only gnōsis in 2Pe 1:5, 2Pe 1:6; 2Pe 3:18), but epignōsin again in 2Pe 1:3, 2Pe 1:8; 2Pe 2:20. As in Colossians, so here full knowledge is urged against the claims of the Gnostic heretics to special gnōsis.

Of God and of Jesus our Lord (tou theou kai Iēsou tou kuriou hēmōn). At first sight the idiom here seems to require one person as in 2Pe 1:1, though there is a second article (tou) before kuriou, and Iēsou is a proper name. But the text here is very uncertain. Bengel, Spitta, Zahn, Nestle accept the short reading of P and some Vulgate MSS. and some minuscles with only tou kuriou hēmōn (our Lord) from which the three other readings may have come. Elsewhere in 2 Peter gnōsis and epignōsis are used of Christ alone. The text of 2 Peter is not in a good state of preservation.