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A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: 2 Peter is unavailable, but you can change that!

Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures has served as a standard reference for more than a century. The subtitle “Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical” aptly describes the three-pronged approach to the biblical text. This translated version of the German text is often considered by many to be superior to the original.

ἵνα διαπαντὸς τηρῇ τὸν ἁγιασμόν, οὖ χωρὶς οὐδεὶς ὄψεται τὸν κύριον, ὁ δὲ ἐπελάθετο.”—M.] VER. 10. Wherefore the rather, etc.—σπουδασατε βεβαίαν.—Lachmann’s reading (see Appar. Crit.) is only in apparent conflict with Paul, who also insists upon a faith evidenced by love and good works. “Peter desires that our calling and election should be also secure with us and not only with God, and that we should make it thus secure by good works.” Luther.—Our calling becomes secure, sure
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