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Selected Verse: 2 Peter 1:13 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Pe 1:13 |
King James |
Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Yea--Greek, "But"; though "you know" the truth (Pe2 1:12).
this tabernacle--soon to be taken down (Co2 5:1): I therefore need to make the most of my short time for the good of Christ's Church. The zeal of Satan against it, the more intense as his time is short, ought to stimulate Christians on the same ground.
by--Greek, "in" (compare Pe2 3:1). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Yea, I think it meet - I think it becomes me as an apostle. It is my appropriate duty; a duty which is felt the more as the close of life draws near.
As long as I am in this tabernacle - As long as I live; as long as I am in the body. The body is called a tabernacle, or tent, as that in which the soul resides for a little time. See the notes at Co2 5:1.
To stir you up, by putting you in remembrance - To excite or arouse you to a diligent performance of your duties; to keep up in your minds a lively sense of Divine things. Religion becomes more important to a man's mind always as he draws near the close of life, and feels that he is soon to enter the eternal world. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Tabernacle (σκηνώματι)
A figurative expression for the body, used also by Paul, Co2 5:1, Co2 5:4, though he employs the shorter kindred word σκῆνος. Peter also has the same mixture of metaphors which Paul employs in that passage, viz., building and clothing. See next verse. Peter's use of tabernacle is significant in connection with his words at the transfiguration, "Let us make three tabernacle (Mat 17:4). The word, as well as the entire phrase, carries the idea of brief duration - a frail tent, erected for a night. Compare Pe2 1:14.
To stir you up by putting you in remembrance (διεγείρειν ὑμᾶς ἐν ὑπομνήσει)
Lit., to stir you up in reminding. See the same phrase in Pe2 3:1. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| In this tabernacle - Or tent. How short is our abode in the body! How easily does a believer pass out of it! |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| As long as I am in this tabernacle - By tabernacle we are to understand his body; and hence several of the versions have σωματι, body, instead of σκηνωματι, tabernacle. Peter's mode of speaking is very remarkable: as long as I AM in this tabernacle, so then the body was not Peter, but Peter dwelt in that body. Is not this a proof that St. Peter believed his soul to be very distinct from his body? As a man's house is the place where he dwells, so the body is the house where the soul dwells. |
1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
4 Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.