Volume IV
The Second Epistle General of Peter.
With John Brown’s marginal references, notes and reflections · Vol. IV, p. 494
The design of this epistle is merely to follow up the former with some additional illustrations and encouragements. It must be understood, however, as addressed equally to Jewish and Gentile converts, 'to all who had obtained like precious faith.' And though the references seem generally to imply that the parties were perfectly familiar with the Old Testament Scriptures, yet as the Old Testament had already been translated into Greek, there can be little reason for imagining that the Gentile converts would not be as well acquainted with them as the Jews. This brief epistle contains the following numerous references to the other Scriptures: Ge. 1. 6-9; 7. 1-9, 11, 16, 22, 23; 19. 16, 24, 25; Nu. 22. 5, 7, 21, 23, 28; Jos. 23. 14; 2 Sa. 23. 2; Ps. 102. 26; Is. 5. 19; 65. 17-19; Mat. 17. 1-5; Paul's epistles; and probably Re. xxi. C.