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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Moreover I will endeavor that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. When we are gone from the earth, we want the truth that we have spoken to live on after us, we want even from our graves to continue to speak for Christ. Therefore it was that Peter kept on repeating the same truth over and over again. He hit...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables,.... Such as Jewish fables, cautioned against Titus 1:14 which their traditionary and oral law, their Talmud, and other writings, mention; as concerning the temporal kingdom of the Messiah, the sumptuous feast, and carnal pleasures and entertainments, of that state, with many other things; some of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables,- He had no retractions to make as he came towards the close of his ministry. He did not have to say that, after all, he had been greatly mistaken; there had been an advance in theology since Jesus Christ had died, and he was sorry to say that he had preached a good deal when he was young which he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. There is need in these perilous times to come back to such an elementary truth as this. The truths taught us in God’s Word are not fables, myths, or merely parables, but they are...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For he received from God the Father honour and glory,.... Not as an inferior from a superior, for he was equal in glory with the Father, and was, and is, the brightness of his Father's glory; nor essentially, having the same glory as his Father, and to which nothing can be added; but declaratively, God the Father testifying of his glory, declaring...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he received from God the Father honour and glory when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. Peter was not deceived about that matter; at the time, he and his fellow-apostles had been...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount. They were not deceived,-neither Peter, nor James, nor John. There was “such a voice” from God...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy,.... Though this word of prophecy is generally understood of the writings and prophecies of the Old Testament concerning Christ, yet different ways are taken to fix the comparison: some think the sense is, that they are more sure than the cunningly devised fables, 2 Peter 1:16 but as these have no...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation. Even the prophets themselves did not always know the full meaning of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; Can anything be more sure than that which an eye-witness sees? Well Peter says that this prophetic Book, in which Holy Scripture is stored up is better to us than if we had even seen Christ himself. If any one thing be more sure than another, it is this blessed book-revelation of the Christ of God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. It is not to be kept by any man to himself. God spoke to Jacob at Bethel, and we read concerning it, in Hos_12:4,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; Surely, nothing could be more sure than the evidence presented to the apostles in the holy mount. Yet Peter thus writes to express his utmost confidence in the Word of God. Surer than the light he saw, which dazzled him; surer than the voice he heard, which he never failed to remember, and to which he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Knowing this first,.... Especially, and in the first place, this is to be known, observed, and considered; that no prophecy of the Scripture, that is contained in Scripture, be it what it will, is of any private interpretation: not that this is levelled against the right of private judgment of Scripture; or to be understood as if a private...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. How we do rejoice in this fact! We shall never give it up. It is a disbelief of inspiration, which lies at the bottom of all the modern...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the prophecy,.... The whole Scripture, all the prophetic writings; so the Jews call the Scriptures הנבואה, "the prophecy" (g), by way of eminence, and from the subject matter of the sacred word: came not in old time by the will of man; was not brought into the world at first, or in any period of time, as and when man would, according to his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. So that they sometimes spoke what they did not themselves understand; the prophecy carried its own key within itself, and the key could not be found until the prophecy was fulfilled. I believe that the prophesies in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. This is the foundation of our faith,-that this Book is divinely inspired. Suffer nobody to make you doubt concerning this matter; for you must give up Christianity itself if you give up the inspiration of this Book. You have...