Teks -- 2 Peter 1:15 (NET)

1:15 Indeed, I will also make every effort that, after my departure, you have a testimony of these things.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: 2Pe 1:15 - Peter may also have had an intimation by vision of his approaching death (cf. the legend Domine quo vadis ) as Paul often did (Act 16:9; Act 18:9; Act 21:11; Act 23:11; Act 27:23). @@At every time

Peter may also have had an intimation by vision of his approaching death (cf. the legend Domine quo vadis ) as Paul often did (Act 16:9; Act 18:9; Act 21:11; Act 23:11; Act 27:23). @@At every time ( hekastote ).

As need arises, old adverb, here alone in N.T.

Robertson: 2Pe 1:15 - After my decease

After my decease ( meta tēn emēn exodon ).

For exodos meaning death see Luk 9:31, and for departure from Egypt (way out, ex , hodos ) see Heb 11:22, the only other N.T. examples. Here again Peter was present on the Transfiguration mount when the talk was about the "exodus"of Jesus from earth.

Robertson: 2Pe 1:15 - That ye may be able

That ye may be able ( echein humas ).

Literally, "that ye may have it,"the same idiom with echō and the infinitive in Mar 14:8; Mat 18:25. It is the object-infinitive after spoudasō (I will give diligence, for which see 2Pe 1:10).

Robertson: 2Pe 1:15 - To call these things to remembrance

To call these things to remembrance ( tēn toutōn mnēmēn poieisthai ).

Present middle infinitive of poieō (as in 2Pe 1:10). Mnēmē is an old word (from mnaomai ), here alone in N.T. This idiom, like the Latin mentionem facere , is common in the old writers (papyri also both for "mention"and "remembrance"), here only in N.T., but in Rom 1:20 we have mneian poioumai (I make mention). Either sense suits here. It is possible, as Irenaeus (iii. I. I) thought, that Peter had in mind Mark’ s Gospel, which would help them after Peter was gone. Mark’ s Gospel was probably already written at Peter’ s suggestion, but Peter may have that fact in mind here.

Vincent: 2Pe 1:15 - Ye may be able

Ye may be able ( ἔχειν ὑμᾶς )

Lit., that you may have it. A similar use of have, in the sense of to be able, occurs Mar 14:8. The same meaning is also foreshadowed in Mat 18:25, had not to pay; and Joh 8:6, have to accuse.

Vincent: 2Pe 1:15 - Decease

Decease ( ἔξοδον )

Exodus is a literal transcript of the word, and is the term used by Luke in his account of the transfiguration. " They spake of his decease. " It occurs only once elsewhere, Heb 11:22, in the literal sense, the departing or exodus of the children of Israel. " It is at least remarkable," says Dean Alford, " that, with the recollection of the scene on the mount of transfiguration floating in his mind, the apostle should use so close together the words which were there also associated, tabernacle and decease. The coincidence should not be forgotten in treating of the question of the genuineness of the epistle."

Vincent: 2Pe 1:15 - Call to remembrance

Call to remembrance ( μνήμην ποιεῖσθαι )

The phrase occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. In classical Greek, to make mention of. An analogous expression is found, Rom 1:9, μνείαν ποιοῦμαι , I make mention. See, also, Eph 1:16; 1Th 1:2; Phm 1:4. Some render it thus here, as expressing Peter's desire to make it possible for his readers to report these things to others. Rev., to call these things to remembrance.

Wesley: 2Pe 1:15 - That ye may be able

By having this epistle among you.

JFB: 2Pe 1:15 - endeavour

"use my diligence": the same Greek word as in 2Pe 1:10 : this is the field in which my diligence has scope. Peter thus fulfils Christ's charge, "Feed My sheep" (Joh 21:16-17).

JFB: 2Pe 1:15 - decease

"departure." The very word ("exodus") used in the Transfiguration, Moses and Elias conversing about Christ's decease (found nowhere else in the New Testament, but Heb 11:22, "the departing of Israel" out of Egypt, to which the saints' deliverance from the present bondage of corruption answers). "Tabernacle" is another term found here as well as there (Luk 9:31, Luk 9:33): an undesigned coincidence confirming Peter's authorship of this Epistle.

JFB: 2Pe 1:15 - that ye may be able

By the help of this written Epistle; and perhaps also of Mark's Gospel, which Peter superintended.

JFB: 2Pe 1:15 - always

Greek, "on each occasion": as often as occasion may require.

JFB: 2Pe 1:15 - to have . . . in remembrance

Greek, "to exercise remembrance of." Not merely "to remember," as sometimes we do, things we care not about; but "have them in (earnest) remembrance," as momentous and precious truths.

Clarke: 2Pe 1:15 - Moreover, I will endeavor

Moreover, I will endeavor - And is not this endeavor seen in these two epistles? By leaving these among them, even after his decease, they had these things always in remembrance

Clarke: 2Pe 1:15 - After my decease

After my decease - Μετα την εμην εξοδον· After my going out, i.e. of his tabernacle. The real Peter was not open to the eye, nor palpable to the touch; he was concealed in that tabernacle vulgarly supposed to be Peter. There is a thought very similar to this in the last conversation of Socrates with his friends. As this great man was about to drink the poison to which he was condemned by the Athenian judges, his friend Crito said, "But how would you be buried? - Socrates: Just as you please, if you can but catch me, and I do not elude your pursuit. Then, gently smiling, he said: I cannot persuade Crito, ὡς εγω ειμι οὑτος ὁ Σωκρατης ὁ νυνι διαλεγομενος, that I AM that Socrates who now converses with you; but he thinks that I am he, ὁν οψεται ολιγον ὑστερον νεκρον, και ερωτα πως εδι με θαπτειν, whom he shall shortly see dead; and he asks how I would be buried? I have asserted that, after I have drunk the poison, I should no longer remain with you, but shall depart to certain felicities of the blessed."Platonis Phaedo, Oper., vol. i, edit. Bipont., p 260.

TSK: 2Pe 1:15 - I will // these

I will : Deu 31:19-29; Jos 24:24-29; 1Chr. 29:1-20; Psa 71:18; 2Ti 2:2; Heb 11:4

these : 2Pe 1:4-7, 2Pe 1:12

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Pe 1:15 - These things // Always // in remembrance // In remembrance

These things the doctrine before delivered concerning faith in Christ, the practice of good works, and their continuance in both.

Always this may be joined either to

endeavour and so relate to the apostle himself; he would always be diligent, and do his part, that they might have these things in remembrance: or rather, (according to our translation), to having

in remembrance Peter being now near his end; and therefore this always may better refer to them that were to live after him, than to himself that was so soon to die.

In remembrance or, to commemorate them, viz. to the benefit and edification of the church; and this includes their having them in remembrance, but implies something more.

Haydock: 2Pe 1:15 - That you frequently have after my decease

That you frequently have after my decease, [5] &c. Some expounded these words to signify: I will have you frequently in my thoughts, and remember you, praying for you after my death. But this does not seem the true and literal sense, nor do we need such arguments to prove that the saints pray for us. (Witham)

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Dabo operam et frequenter habere vos, post obitum meum, ut horum memoriam faciatis. Greek: umas....ten touton mnemen poieisthai.

Gill: 2Pe 1:15 - Moreover, I will endeavour // that you may be able after my decease // To have these things always in remembrance

Moreover, I will endeavour,.... He signifies, that he should not only use all diligence to stir them up to, and put them in remembrance of the necessary duties of their calling while he was alive, but should make it his study to concert some measures, and take some steps,

that you may be able after my decease: or Exodus, meaning his going out of this world by death, in allusion to the Israelites going out of Egypt, and marching for Canaan's land; this world being, like Egypt, a place of wickedness, misery, and bondage; as heaven, like Canaan, a place and state of rest and happiness.

To have these things always in remembrance; by which they might be always put in mind of them, or by recurring to which they might have their memories refreshed; and what he means is, to leave these exhortations and admonitions in writing, which they might read, and be of use to them when he was dead and gone; and indeed by this, and his former epistle, though being dead, he yet speaketh.