# Chapter Introduction

Completed by Joseph Hill.

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# W I T H   P R A C T I C A L   O B S E R V A T I O N S,
The penman of this epistle appears plainly to be the same who wrote the foregoing; and, whatever difference some learned men apprehend they discern in the style of this epistle from that of the former, this cannot be a sufficient argument to assert that it was written by Simon who succeeded the apostle James in the church at Jerusalem, inasmuch as he who wrote this epistle calls himself *Simon Peter, and an apostle* ([[2 Peter 1#1]]), and says that he was *one of the three apostles that were present at Christ's transfiguration* ([[2 Peter 1#18]]), and says expressly *that he had written a former epistle to them,* [[2 Peter 3#1]]. The design of this second epistle is the same with that of the former, as is evident from the [[2 Peter 3#1]], whence observe that, in the things of God, we have need of *precept upon precept, and line upon line,* and all little enough to keep them in remembrance; and yet these are the things which should be most faithfully recorded and frequently remembered by us.