Wherefore Considering the evil consequent on the want or neglect of these graces, and the benefit which will arise from the exercise of them; since everlasting destruction would be the consequence of your lukewarmness and sloth, and everlasting glory will be the fruit of your earnestness and diligence, I will not be negligent, &c. Therefore he wrote another letter so soon after the former; to put you in remembrance of those things, though, as I am aware, you already know them in a great measure, and are established in the present truth The truth which I am now declaring; yea, I think it meet Δικαιον, just or reasonable, as long as I am in this tabernacle Or tent. See on 2 Corinthians 5:1. How short is our abode in the body! how easily does a believer pass out of it! To stir you up To seek an increase of all Christian graces, and to practise all the Christian virtues; by putting you in remembrance That they are necessary to your entrance into Christ's kingdom; knowing As if he had said, I am the more earnest in this, because I know that I must shortly put off, &c. That my death is soon to happen; even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me By an express prophecy; meaning the revelation which Christ made to him, John 21:18-19. And it is not improbable that Christ had showed him by a late revelation that the time was now drawing nigh.
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2 Peter 1:12-14
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.