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<div2 id="iiPet.i" n="i" next="iiPet.ii" prev="iiPet" progress="87.46%" title="Introduction">
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<div class="Center" id="iiPet.i-p0.1"><h2 id="iiPet.i-p0.2">Second Peter</h2>
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<p id="iiPet.i-p1">Completed by <span class="smallcaps" id="iiPet.i-p1.1">Joseph Hill</span>.</p>
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</div>
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<hr/>
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<pb id="iiPet.i-Page_1036" n="1036"/>
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<div class="Center" id="iiPet.i-p1.3">
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<p id="iiPet.i-p2"><b>AN</b></p>
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<h3 id="iiPet.i-p2.1">EXPOSITION,</h3>
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<h4 id="iiPet.i-p2.2">W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E
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R V A T I O N S,</h4>
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<h5 id="iiPet.i-p2.3">OF THE SECOND EPISTLE GENERAL OF</h5>
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<h2 id="iiPet.i-p2.4">P E T E R.</h2>
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<hr style="width:2in"/>
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</div>
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<p class="indent" id="iiPet.i-p3"><span class="smallcaps" id="iiPet.i-p3.1">The</span> penman
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of this epistle appears plainly to be the same who wrote the
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foregoing; and, whatever difference some learned men apprehend they
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discern in the style of this epistle from that of the former, this
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cannot be a sufficient argument to assert that it was written by
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Simon who succeeded the apostle James in the church at Jerusalem,
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inasmuch as he who wrote this epistle calls himself <i>Simon Peter,
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and an apostle</i> (<scripRef id="iiPet.i-p3.2" osisRef="Bible:2Pet.1.1" parsed="|2Pet|1|1|0|0" passage="2Pe 1:1"><i>v.</i>
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1</scripRef>), and says that he was <i>one of the three apostles
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that were present at Christ's transfiguration</i> (<scripRef id="iiPet.i-p3.3" osisRef="Bible:2Pet.1.18" parsed="|2Pet|1|18|0|0" passage="2Pe 1:18"><i>v.</i> 18</scripRef>), and says expressly
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<i>that he had written a former epistle to them,</i> <scripRef id="iiPet.i-p3.4" osisRef="Bible:2Pet.3.1" parsed="|2Pet|3|1|0|0" passage="2Pe 3:1"><i>ch.</i> iii. 1</scripRef>. The design of this
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second epistle is the same with that of the former, as is evident
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from the <scripRef id="iiPet.i-p3.5" osisRef="Bible:2Pet.3.1" parsed="|2Pet|3|1|0|0" passage="2Pe 3:1">first verse of the third
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chapter</scripRef>, whence observe that, in the things of God, we
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have need of <i>precept upon precept, and line upon line,</i> and
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all little enough to keep them in remembrance; and yet these are
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the things which should be most faithfully recorded and frequently
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remembered by us.</p>
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</div2>
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