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<p class="tab-1">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 <i>Simon Peter, and an apostle</i> (<a class="bibleref" title="2Pet.1.1" href="/passage/?search=2Pet.1.1">2 Pet. 1:1</a>), and says that he was <i>one of the three apostles that were present at Christ’s transfiguration</i> (<a class="bibleref" title="2Pet.1.18" href="/passage/?search=2Pet.1.18">2 Pet. 1:18</a>), and says expressly <i>that he had written a former epistle to them</i>, <a class="bibleref" title="2Pet.3.1" href="/passage/?search=2Pet.3.1">2 Pet. 3:1</a>. The design of this second epistle is the same with that of the former, as is evident from the <a class="bibleref" title="2Pet.3.1" href="/passage/?search=2Pet.3.1">2 Pet. 3:1</a>; whence observe that, in the things of God, we have need of <i>precept upon precept, and line upon line</i>, 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.</p>
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