2 Peter 3:1

1. The fatal error of expecting Christ’s immediate coming, from the immediateness of the terms in which it is predicted, 2 Peter 3:1-13.

1. This Literally, This epistle, already beloved a second, unto you I write. The first chapter is a general, yet direct, introductory address; the second chapter steps aside to portray the corruptionists to come; this resumes and finishes the direct epistle.

Now Literally, already; it is already a being-completed second epistle.

Pure minds In contrast with those corrupt minds whose portraiture occupies the last chapter. Those are the ungodly men of 2 Peter 3:7, bound to perdition; while you, warned of that day of judgment, will (2 Peter 3:17) beware.

Remembrance The apostle delivers not so much a new prophecy as he recalls, explains, and applies a whole body of old prophecies.