2 Peter 1:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Yea, I think it meet— St. Peter accounted it δικαιον, meet, that is, becoming his character and office, as one of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, and proper for them, as professed Christians in such a situation. With great propriety and beauty, he calls his own body a tabernacle: it was not like a house, a firm fixed building, likely to stand for some ages; but a structure comparatively light and weak, and which was shortly to be taken down: like the travelling tents of the wild Arabs, easily set up and easily removed. St. Peter was then in his tabernacle; but he was going to remove; however, as long as he continued in it, he thought it proper to stir up, or rouse his converts; (διεγειρειν .) Christians should be continually excited to look forward to Christ's second coming, and to press on in all Christian experience and holyduties,bywayofpreparation for that day; since, without being frequently put in remembrance, many are apt to be drowsy, or not duly attentive to such important truths. See ch. 2 Peter 3:1.

2 Peter 1:13

13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;