2 Peter 1:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; As long as I am in this tabernacle - By tabernacle we are to understand his body; and hence several of the versions have σωματι, body, instead of σκηνωματι, tabernacle. Peter's mode of speaking is very remarkable: as long as I AM in this tabernacle, so then the body was not Peter, but Peter dwelt in that body. Is not this a proof that St. Peter believed his soul to be very distinct from his body? As a man's house is the place where he dwells, so the body is the house where the soul dwells.

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;