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2 PETER CHAPTER 1
2Pe_1:1-4 The apostle, saluting the Christians, admonisheth
them of the gifts and promises of the gospel, and
their tendency to promote a godly life.
2Pe_1:5-9 He exhorteth them to add to their faith such virtues
as would make it fruitful,
2Pe_1:10,11 and thereby to make their calling and election sure,
2Pe_1:12-15 He is careful to remind them hereof, knowing his
dissolution to be near,
2Pe_1:16-21 and urgeth the evidence of what he had seen and
heard in the holy mount in confirmation of Christ's
second coming, together with the word of prophecy,
which he recommendeth to their regard.
A servant and an apostle; i.e. such a servant as is likewise an apostle. The former agrees to all gospel ministers generally, the latter is a title of a greater eminency; and so he intimates, that he wrote to them not merely as an ordinary minister, but in the authority of an apostle, an officer of the highest degree in the church.
Like precious faith; not in respect of the degree or strength of it, but in respect of the object, Christ, and the benefits that come by it, justification, sanctification, adoption, &c., in which respect the faith of the weakest believer is as precious as that of the strongest.
With us; either with us apostles, or with us Jewish Christians, born or inhabiting in Judea.
Through the righteousness of God; the Greek preposition which we render through, may likewise be rendered with, as 2Pe_1:5 Act_7:38, in the church, that is, with the church; and so the sense is either:
1. Through the righteousness, i.e. truth and faithfulness, of Christ in his promises, whereof the faith of the saints was an effect: or:
2. Through the righteousness of Christ, as the meritorious cause of their faith: or:
3. With the righteousness of Christ imputed to them, and made theirs upon their believing. They had obtained like precious faith as the apostles themselves and others had, together with the righteousness of Christ, an interest in which always accompanies faith, Rom_4:22.
And our Saviour Jesus Christ: there being but one article in the Greek, these words are to be understood conjunctly, the particle
and being but an explicative, and the sense is: Through the righteousness of our God, even our Saviour Jesus Christ, who is God: see the like, 2Pe_1:11 3:18 Joh_20:28 Tit_2:14.