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THE HOLY BIBLE (Darby Translation) Darby's Notes on 2 Peter
Chapter Selection:

1:2i, 1:3i knowledge

Epignosis, 'full knowledge,' 'personal recognition,' as Col. 1:9.

1:3k glory

Many read 'by (his) own glory.'

1:4l given

Or 'have been given.'

1:4m partakers

Koinonos: Heb. 2:14.

1:5a therewith

'Bringing in besides,' or 'along with,' 'by the side of the other.'

1:5b also

Lit 'supply,' 'furnish besides.' It is the aorist.

1:6c temperance

Or 'self control,' as Gal. 5:23. 'Endurance' is hupomone: see Jas. 5:7.

1:8d knowledge

See Note i, ver. 3.

1:12e careful

Or 'use diligence,' 'take care it shall be so.'

1:16f eyewitnesses

'Admitted into immediate vision of the glory,' a word used for full initiation into the mysteries.

1:17g received

Lit. 'for having received.'

1:17h, 1:18h uttered

Or 'brought,' as 1Pet. 1:13, or 'borne to him.' It is the passive aorist participle of the Greek word phero, from which the word translated 'impetuous' in Acts 2:2 is derived.

1:20i interpretation

That is, 'it is not explained by its own meaning,' as a human statement. It must be understood by and according to the Spirit that uttered it. The 'prophecy' is, I take it, the sense of the prophecy, the thing meant by it. Now this is not gathered by a human interpretation of an isolated passage which has its own meaning and its own solution, as if a man uttered it; for it is a part of God's mind, uttered as holy men were moved by the Holy Spirit to utter it. In the 'prophecy of scripture' the apostle has in mind the thing prophesied, without losing the idea of the passage. Hence I have ventured to say 'the scope of no prophecy.' One might almost say 'no prophecy explains itself.'

1:21k ever

Or 'heretofore.'

1:21l uttered

As 'uttered' in vers. 17 and 18. See Note h.

1:21m of

Lit. 'spake as borne by;' from the same Greek root as 'uttered,' vers. 17, 18, and again in this verse.

2:1a who

Hostis, as Matt. 7:24.

2:1b deny

Lit. 'and denying.' It refers to false teachers, not heresies.

2:1c master

'Despot,' as Acts 4:24; 1Tim. 6:1, 2; Tit. 2:9; 1Pet. 2:18; Rev. 6:10.

2:3d well-turned

Or 'false,' plastos.

2:5e eighth

That is, 'one of eight.'

2:5f preacher

Lit. 'herald,' as 1Tim. 2:7; 2Tim. 1:11.

2:7g conversation

i.e. 'manner of life.'

2:8h dwelling

Or 'settling down:' it has a strengthening preposition.

2:10i dignities

Lit. 'glories.'

2:12k destroyed

Or 'to be captured and perish.'

2:13l ephemeral

Or 'by day,' in contrast with 'they that be drunk are drunk in the night,' 1Thess. 5:7-8.

2:14m covetousness

Or 'carnal desire and seeking to seduce,' 'practised in seduction' is the sense.

2:19a by

Or 'to him.'

2:20b knowledge, 2:21b known

Epignosis, see Note i, ch. 1:3.

2:22c vomit

See Prov. 26:11.

3:4d thus

Or 'as they were.' For this rendering as the practical sense, see 'as he was,' John 4:6. The force is the present state: as that they have continued.

3:7e present

Lit. 'the now heavens,' in contrast to the 'then world,' ver. 6.

3:9f willing

'Purposing,' as Jas. 1:18.

3:11g conversation, godliness

Conversation (manner of life) and godliness are both plural in Greek.

3:12h the

The absence of the article is poetic here, 'because of which inflamed heavens shall be dissolved, and burning elements shall melt.'

3:17a knowing

Ginosko, as ver. 3; ch. 1:20. It is oida in ch. 1:12, 14; 2:9: see 1Cor. 8:1.