2 Peter 1:18 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Peter 1:16-18

Here we have the reason of giving the foregoing exhortation, and that with so much diligence and seriousness. These things are not idle tales, or a vain thing, but of undoubted truth and vast concern. The gospel is not a cunningly devised fable. These are not the words of one who hath a devil, nor the contrivance of any number of men who by cunning craftiness endeavour to deceive. The way of salvation by Jesus Christ is eminently the counsel of God, the most excellent contrivance of the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 1:16-18

1:16-18 For it was not cleverly invented fables that we followed when we made known to you the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; it was because we were made eye-witnesses of his majesty. This happened to us on that occasion when he received honour and glory from God the Father, when this voice was borne to him by the majestic glory--"This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I am well pleased." It was this voice that we heard, borne from heaven, when we were with him in the sacred... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 1:18

And this voice, which came from heaven, we heard ,.... Peter, who wrote this epistle, and James and John, the favourite disciples of Christ; and who were a sufficient number to bear witness of what they then saw and heard: when we were with him ; and saw his glory, and the glory of Moses and Elias, and were so delighted with his company, and theirs, and with communion with him, that Peter, in the name of the rest, desired to stay there: in the holy mount ; the Ethiopic version reads,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:18

And this voice - we heard - That is, himself, James, and John heard it, and saw this glory; for these only were the εποπται , beholders, on the holy mount. It is worthy of remark that our blessed Lord, who came to give a new law to mankind, appeared on this holy mount with splendor and great glory, as God did when he came on the holy mount, Sinai, to give the old law to Moses. And when the voice came from the excellent glory, This is my Son, the beloved One, in whom I have delighted; hear... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:18

Verse 18 18.In the holy mount. He calls it the holy mount, for the same reason that the ground was called holy where God appeared to Moses. For wherever the Lord comes, as he is the fountain of all holiness, he makes holy all things by the odor of his presence. And by this mode of speaking we are taught, not only to receive God reverently wherever he shews himself, but also to prepare ourselves for holiness, as soon as he comes nigh us, as it was commanded the people when the law was proclaimed... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Peter 1:12-21

Reasons for diligence in his apostolic work. I. THE TIME IS SHOUT . 1 . We need continually to be aroused. We may know all things necessary for salvation; we have known them, it may be, all our lives; we are firmly convinced of their truth; but we need to keep that knowledge vividly before our hearts, to bring it to bear upon the circumstances of our daily lives. Few of us have this recollectedness, this persevering watchfulness; we need constant exhortation. St. Peter's... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Peter 1:16-18

Witness to Christ. The Divine Saviour was the theme of apostolic preaching. They, whom he himself commissioned for the purpose, published the tidings of their Lord's first advent as the object of human faith, and of his second and future advent as the object of human hope. Thus the "power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ" was the great thought that inspired the apostles' minds, and animated them in their labours. And it was most natural and wise that, for their own sake and. for the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Peter 1:16-18

Certainty concerning Christ the secret of spiritual earnestness. The apostle gives the reason for his earnestness in the passage before us, and certainty is the key-note of his utterance; He declares he knows what he enforces, that error has not been palmed on him for truth, that his eyes have seen and his ears have heard what he tells. Then our subject is— Certainty concerning Christ the secret of spiritual earnestness. Doubt and deadness go together, certainty and vigour; and in an... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Peter 1:16-21

Threefold testimony to the truth of Christianity. In laying out the grounds of his own faith, and the grounds, too, on which he would have his readers build their faith, St. Peter indicates the lines of a threefold evidence. I. THE TESTIMONY OF THE APOSTLES . 1 . They were "eye-witnesses"— a rare word, describing spectators who were admitted into the highest grade of initiation into mysteries. How true of Peter and James and John, with regard to the life of our Lord! ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Peter 1:18

And this voice which came from heaven we heard; rather, and this voice borne from heaven we heard. The pronoun is emphatic; we, the apostles who had that high privilege. They heard the voice when it was borne ( ἐνεχθεῖσαν ; he repeats for emphasis the remarkable word of 2 Peter 1:17 ) from heaven, they heard it come from heaven. When we were with him in the holy mount. This description of the Mount of the Transfiguration supposes a knowledge of the history in St. Peter's readers;... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Peter 1:16-18

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 2 Peter 1:16-18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Peter 1:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:18

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Peter 1:18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Peter 1:12-21

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Peter 1:16-18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Peter 1:16-18

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Peter 1:16-21

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Peter 1:18

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