Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
The whole force of this verse turns on one preposition. These promises were given by God's glory and power precisely so that we might become partakers of the divine nature and escape the world's corruption. The correspondence runs clean throughout: life answers to glory, godliness to virtue, and that final likeness to God is what Peter is after.
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The apostle Peter, being moved by the Holy Ghost to write once more to those who from among the Jews were turned to faith in Christ, begins this second epistle with an introduction, wherein the same persons are described and the same blessings are desired that are in the preface to his former letter; but there are some additions or alterations which ought to be...
Commenting on 2 Peter 1:1-4
Christ Himself disposes these promises and gives them to the saints, for all promises of the new covenant flow through Him. They are exceeding great because they are from the great God under no obligation to promise anything, and precious because they are spiritual, eternal, absolute, and unchangeable, worth far more than gold and silver.
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