And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
Ver. 15. That the longsuffering, &c.] Romans 2:4, which sentence Peter picks out of Paul's Epistles, as one of the choicest, and urgeth it here.
Even as our beloved brother, &c.] Ingenium est profiteri per quos profeceris, saith Pliny. St Peter makes honourable mention of St Paul; so Ezekiel of his contemporary Daniel.