This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
Ver. 1. This second epistle] So must ministers with one sermon peg in another, and never cease beating and repeating the same point, saith St Augustine (de Doct. Christian.), till they perceive by the gesture and countenance of the hearers, that they understand it and are affected with it.
I stir up] Gr. διεγειρω, I rouse you, who perhaps are nodding with the wise virgins,Matthew 25:5 .
Your pure minds] Gr. Pure as the sun. Chrysostom saith of some in his time that they were ipso caelo puriores, more pure than the visible heavens; and that they were more like angels than mortals. Hom. lv. in Matt.