For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
For - reason why he is so earnest that the remembrance of these things be continued after his death. Followed - out in detail х exakoloutheesantes (G1811)].
Cunningly devised. -`devised by (man's) wisdom' х sesofismenois (G4679): 'sophisticated'], as Cunningly devised. - `devised by (man's) wisdom' х sesofismenois (G4679): 'sophisticated'], as distinguished from what the Holy Spirit teaches (cf. 1 Corinthians 2:13). Compare also 2 Peter 2:3, "feigned words." Fables - as pagan mythologies, and subsequent Gnostic 'fables and genealogies,' of which the germs already existed in Judaism, combined with Oriental philosophy in Asia Minor. The Spirit's precautionary protest against the rationalistic mythical theory of the Gospel.
When we made known unto you. Not that Peter himself had personally taught the churches in Pontus, Galatia, etc.; but he was one of the apostles whose testimony was borne to the Church in general, to whom this letter is addressed, (2 Peter 1:1, including, but not restricted to, as 1 Peter, the churches in Pontus, etc.) Power - the opposite of "fables:" cf. the contrast of "word" and "power," 1 Corinthians 4:20. A specimen of His power was given at the transfiguration; also of His "coming" again, and its attendant glory. х Parousian (G3952)] "Coming" is always used of His second advent. A refutation of the scoffers (2 Peter 3:4): I, James, and John, saw with our own eyes a sample of His coming glory.
Were, х geneethentes (G1096)] - 'were made.' Eye-witnesses. As initiated spectators of mysteries х epoptai (G2030)], we were admitted into His innermost secrets, namely, at the transfiguration.
His, х tees (G3588) ekeinou (G1565)] - THAT great ONE'S majesty.