2 Peter 3:15

15. Longsuffering God’s endurance of the world’s wickedness and weakness.

Is salvation As of a single sinner God forbears for the sinner’s good, so of the world.

Salvation The gathering of saved millions into glory is the very essence of God’s patience through ages.

As… also In addition to my thus writing.

Paul A memorable mention of a brother apostle.

According… wisdom Whether Paul wrote clearly or obscurely, it was according to the measure of inspiration by God vouchsafed unto him. See notes on Matthew 28:1, (introductory;) Acts 27:22.

Written unto you Who is meant by this you? Plainly, not all Christians, but the particular body to whom Peter is writing. For this epistle written by Paul unto you is antithetical to all his epistles in next verse. Of all his epistles there was a single one written unto you. Now, Peter’s first epistle was written (1 Peter 1:1) to the Hebrew dispersion, and this second is written to the same readers, as appears by 2 Peter 3:1, of this epistle.

Song of Solomon 1:1, though addressing Christians, means the Hebrew Christians. This you, therefore, must mean the Hebrew part of the Christian Church. Paul’s one epistle unto you, therefore, must have been the Epistle to the Hebrews. And, as we have shown in our Introduction to Hebrews, Peter’s word, in 2 Peter 3:16, δυσνοητα , hard-to-be-understood, so corresponds to Hebrews 5:11, δυσερμηνευτος , hard-to-be-interpreted, as to leave little doubt of the real reference. In Hebrews such a passage as Hebrews 10:37 might easily be wrested without Peter’s rule of prophetic-time interpretation. In all his epistles we find such passages as 1 Corinthians 15:51, and 1 Thessalonians 4:15, which last is explained by Paul himself. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5.