Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
endeavour—"use my diligence": the same Greek word as in II Peter 1:10 : this is the field in which my diligence has scope. Peter thus fulfils Christ's charge, "Feed My sheep" (John 21:16-17).
decease—"departure." The very word ("exodus") used in the Transfiguration, Moses and Elias conversing about Christ's decease (found nowhere else in the New Testament, but Hebrews 11:22, "the departing of Israel" out of Egypt, to which the saints' deliverance from the present bondage of corruption answers). "Tabernacle" is another term found here as well as there (Luke 9:31, Luke 9:33): an undesigned coincidence confirming Peter's authorship of this Epistle.
that ye may be able—by the help of this written Epistle; and perhaps also of Mark's Gospel, which Peter superintended.
always—Greek, "on each occasion": as often as occasion may require.
to have . . . in remembrance—Greek, "to exercise remembrance of." Not merely "to remember," as sometimes we do, things we care not about; but "have them in (earnest) remembrance," as momentous and precious truths.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 2 Peter 1:15:
Luke 9:31
Hebrews 13:7
2 Peter 1:12
2 Peter 1:14
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