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2Pe_3:1. Not the commencement of a new epistle (Grotius), but of a new section, directed against the deniers of the advent of Christ.
ταύτην ἤδη … ἐπιστολήν ] “This epistle I write to you, as already the second.” Pott: αὕτη ἤδη δευτέρα ἐστὶν ἐπιστολὴ , ἣν γράφω ὑμῖν . Fronmüller incorrectly explains ἤδη by: “now being near my death.” The epistle first written is the so-called First Epistle of Peter.
ἐν αἷς ] applies both to this and the First Epistle of Peter (Winer, p. 128 [E. T. 177]). The prepos. ἐν does not stand here in place of διά (Gerhard), but refers to the contents.
διεγείρω … διάνοιαν ] for the phrase: διεγείρειν ἐν ὑπομνήσει , cf. chap. 2Pe_1:13.
ὑμῶν belongs to διάνοιαν .
εἰλικρινῆ , cf. Php_1:10.