{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2151","native_reference":{"book_number":680,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":3,"verse_to":3},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Bede</b>: Just as His divine power has given us all things, etc. This statement depends on the previous sentences. The meaning is: Grace and peace be multiplied to you as you come to know our Lord Jesus Christ perfectly. And know this too through Him, that all things of His divine power have been given to us through His grace, which are sufficient for attaining life and preserving piety. Hence, He says: Because everything I have heard from My Father I have made known to you (John XV). And elsewhere: And the glory which You have given Me, I have given them (John XVII). But if it is read as some manuscripts have: Which has been given for life and piety, then the meaning will be: So that you may understand how our Lord has given all things of His divine power to us according to the measure of our capacity, which power has been given for us to attain life and piety. For this form of expression is very common in the Scriptures; and it is called by grammarians ellipsis, that is, the omission of a necessary word, such as in the Psalm: For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert mountains. It implies, for the way of escape is evident, for God is judge everywhere (Psalm LXXIV).<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: Through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and virtue. And this too depends on the previous passage, because through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, we have recognized all the mysteries of His divinity by which we are saved. He called us by His own glory and virtue, for He did not send an angel to our salvation, nor an archangel, nor did He find in us any merit for which we were to be saved, but rather seeing us as weak and inglorious, He redeemed us by His own power and glory. Hence He says: You did not choose Me, but I chose you (John XV).<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Hilary of Arles</b>: Here Peter is talking about the Scriptures, the miracles which Christ did in the flesh, the work of baptism and the doctrine which was preached, all of which bring us into the enjoyment of eternal life.<br/><i>— INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 2 PETER</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: As all things are given to you by His divine power, which pertains to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by His glory and virtue, by which precious and great promises have been granted to you, so that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.<br/>Indeed, a long series has been presented, and this is the understanding: Just as countless good things have been received through the appearance of Christ, by which we may become partakers of the divine nature and be led back to life and godliness: so we must conduct ourselves, so that we may support virtue through faith, and by this means progress towards the promotion of godliness, until we reach the perfection of diligence, which is love. Moreover, we have become partakers of the divine nature through the coming of the Lord and God, who took the first fruits of our nature upon Himself and sanctified it by assuming it. If the first fruits are holy, the mass is also holy. Furthermore, the mass of the first fruits is nothing other than those from which the first fruits come. However, Peter speaks of the corruption that comes from worldly lust, as if it were concerning the corruptible and those things that are corruptible.<br/><i>— Commentary on 2 Peter</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"3b54f7f4c899f9e47c19bcb4e7522361b4b9cb047e5008b203ef6aa73d23c435","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2151,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"3fd3f8017db192aa3450576ec27e81d88e4f6db782de896b291cc22de6dae417","translator":null,"work":null}