{"commentaries":[],"citedBy":{"1":[],"2":[],"3":[{"id":"henry.JHN.17.3.2","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 17:3","href":"/jhn/17/#v3-henry","text":"2 Peter i. 3","snippet":"[b.] The knowledge of God and Christ leads to life eternal; this is the way in which Christ gives eternal life, by the knowledge of him that has called us (2 Peter i. 3), and this is the way in which we come to receive it."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.1.12.2","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 1:12","href":"/jhn/1/#v12-westcott","text":"2 Pet. i. 3, 4","snippet":"Comp. 2 Pet. i. 3, 4 ; Gal. iv. 6."}],"4":[{"id":"henry.JHN.1.14.3","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 1:14","href":"/jhn/1/#v14-henry","text":"2 Pet. i. 4","snippet":"They are in a sense homoiousioi—of a like nature (2 Pet. i. 4), and have the image of his perfections; but Christ is homousios—of the same nature, and is the express image of his person, and the Son of God by an eternal generation."},{"id":"ryle.JHN.3.3.3","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 3:3","href":"/jhn/3/#v3-ryle","text":"2 Peter i. 4","snippet":"In Peter it is called \" being called out of darkness into light,\" and being \"made partaker of the divine nature,\" (1 Peter ii. 9; 2 Peter i. 4."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.1.12.2","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 1:12","href":"/jhn/1/#v12-westcott","text":"2 Pet. i. 3, 4","snippet":"Comp. 2 Pet. i. 3, 4 ; Gal. iv. 6."}],"5":[{"id":"bengel.JHN.6.69.1","author":"Johann Albrecht Bengel","author_dates":"1687-1752","tradition":"Lutheran Pietist","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1752,"ref":"John 6:69","href":"/jhn/6/#v69-bengel","text":"2 Pet. i. 5","snippet":"Vers.]) From the words of Jesus, knowledge follows faith: 2 Pet. i. 5, “ Add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge."}],"6":[],"7":[],"8":[],"9":[{"id":"westcott.JHN.2.6.2","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 2:6","href":"/jhn/2/#v6-westcott","text":"2 Pet. i. 9","snippet":"Comp. iii. 45 ; Heb. i. 3 ; 2 Pet. i. 9."}],"10":[],"11":[],"12":[],"13":[{"id":"calvin.JHN.2.19-21.1","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 2:19–21","href":"/jhn/2/#v19-calvin","text":"2 Peter 1:13","snippet":"The body of each of us is called a tabernacle, (2 Corinthians 5:4; 2 Peter 1:13,) because the soul dwells in it; but the body of Christ was the abode of his Divinity."},{"id":"ryle.JHN.2.21.1","author":"J. C. Ryle","author_dates":"1816-1900","tradition":"Anglican (Evangelical)","era":"The 1800s","died":1900,"ref":"John 2:21","href":"/jhn/2/#v21-ryle","text":"2 Pet. i. 13","snippet":"(2 Cor. v. 1; 2 Pet. i. 13.)"}],"14":[],"15":[],"16":[{"id":"henry.JHN.1.14.3","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 1:14","href":"/jhn/1/#v14-henry","text":"2 Pet. i. 16-18","snippet":"Perhaps the evangelist had a particular regard to the glory of his transfiguration, of which he was an eye-witness; see 2 Pet. i. 16-18."},{"id":"henry.JHN.15.27.2","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 15:27","href":"/jhn/15/#v27-henry","text":"2 Pet. i. 16","snippet":"We have great reason to receive the record which the apostles gave of Christ, for they did not speak by hearsay, but what they had the greatest assurance of imaginable, 2 Pet. i. 16; 1 John i. 1, 3."},{"id":"henry.JHN.21.24.4","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 21:24","href":"/jhn/21/#v24-henry","text":"2 Pet. i. 16","snippet":"He speaks of himself in the plural number, We know, not for majesty-sake, but for modesty-sake, as 1 John i. 1, That which we have seen; and 2 Pet. i. 16."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.1.14.4","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 1:14","href":"/jhn/1/#v14-westcott","text":"2 Pet. i. 16","snippet":"Luke ix. 32; 2 Pet. i. 16 ff.; 1 John iv. 14."}],"17":[{"id":"henry.JHN.1.14.3","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 1:14","href":"/jhn/1/#v14-henry","text":"2 Pet. i. 16-18","snippet":"Perhaps the evangelist had a particular regard to the glory of his transfiguration, of which he was an eye-witness; see 2 Pet. i. 16-18."}],"18":[{"id":"henry.JHN.1.14.3","author":"Matthew Henry","author_dates":"1662-1714","tradition":"English Nonconformist (Presbyterian)","era":"Puritans and the 1700s","died":1714,"ref":"John 1:14","href":"/jhn/1/#v14-henry","text":"2 Pet. i. 16-18","snippet":"Perhaps the evangelist had a particular regard to the glory of his transfiguration, of which he was an eye-witness; see 2 Pet. i. 16-18."}],"19":[{"id":"calvin.JHN.16.25.2","author":"John Calvin","author_dates":"1509-1564","tradition":"Reformed","era":"Reformation","died":1564,"ref":"John 16:25","href":"/jhn/16/#v25-calvin","text":"2 Peter 1:19","snippet":"… the doctrine as in their understandings; and, indeed, the same thing happens to us in the present day, for not without good reason does the word of God receive this commendation, that it is our light, (Psalm 119:105; 2 Peter 1:19;) but its brightness is so obscured by our darkness, that, what we hear we reckon to be pure allegories."},{"id":"westcott.JHN.5.35.1","author":"B. F. Westcott","author_dates":"1825-1901","tradition":"Anglican","era":"The 1800s","died":1901,"ref":"John 5:35","href":"/jhn/5/#v35-westcott","text":"2 Pet. i. 19","snippet":"Matt. vi. 22 ; 2 Pet. i. 19 ; but the word is used also of the Lamb, Rev. xxi. 23, where the glory of God, as the source of light, is placed in connexion with the Lamb, through whom (as the lamp of this vast temple) the light is conveyed in the …"}],"20":[],"21":[]}}