Therefore I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you now have.
12. Wherefore I will not be negligent. As we seem to distrust either the memory or the attention of those whom we often remind of the same thing, the Apostle makes this modest excuse, that he ceased not to press on the attention of the faithful what was well known and fixed in their minds, because its importance and greatness required this.
Ministers must be remembrancers: they put God's people in mind of His precepts and doctrines so they will do them. You may know the truth and be established in it, yet you need to be reminded, lest you forget and fail to act. A sluggish pastor makes a sluggish flock.
AI summary
Commenting on 2 Peter 1:12-15
Wherefore I will not be negligent,.... The apostle having made use of proper arguments to excite the saints he writes to regard the exhortation he had given, to the diligent exercise of grace, and discharge of duty, proceeds to give the reasons of his own conduct, why he gave such an exhortation to them, and pressed it, and continued to do so, and determined for...