SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:2
para que tengis memoria de las palabras que antes han sido dichas por los santos profetas, y de nuestro mandamiento, que somos apstoles del Seor y Salvador;
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 2. That ye may be mindful , etc.] This is an explanation of the above mentioned end of his writing this and the other epistle; which was, that those saints might be mindful of two things more especially: of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets ; that is, the prophets of the Old Testament, who were holy men of God, and therefore their words are to be regarded, and retained in memory; the Gospel itself was spoken by them, and so was Christ, and the things relating to his person and offices, and to his incarnation, sufferings, and death, and the glory that should follow; and indeed the apostles said no other than what they did, only more clearly and expressly; and particularly many things, were said by them concerning the second coming of Christ to judge the world, and destroy it, and to prepare new heavens and a new earth for his people, which is what the apostle has chiefly in view; (see Jude 1:14 Isaiah 11:3 65:17 Malachi 4:1 Daniel 7:9,10,13,14); and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour ; that is, Jesus Christ, as ( Jude 1:17) expresses it, and the Ethiopic version adds here; and which likewise, and also the Syriac version, and some ancient copies, read, our Lord and Saviour, and omit the us before the apostles; by whom are meant the twelve apostles of Christ, of which Peter was one, and therefore says, us the apostles; though the Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions, and the Complutensian edition, read your apostles, and so the Alexandrian copy; but the former is the received reading: now the commandment of these intends either the Gospel in general, so called because it was the commandment of our Lord to his apostles to preach it; and therefore the word commandment, in the original, stands between us the apostles, and the Lord and Saviour, as being the commandment of the one to the other; unless it can be thought any regard is had to the new commandment of love, or that of faith, inculcated both by Christ and his apostles; ( John 13:34 1 John 2:7,8 3:23); or rather, particularly the instructions, directions, and predictions of the apostles concerning the second coming of Christ, and what should go before it, as appears from the following words, and the parallel place in ( Jude 1:17,18), the words of the prophets and apostles being here put together, show the agreement there is between them, and what regard is to be had to each of them, and to anything and every thing in which they agree.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-4 - The purified minds of Christians are to be stirred up, that they may be active and lively in the work of holiness. There will be scoffers in the last days, under the gospel, men who make light of sin, and mock a salvation by Jesus Christ. One very principal article of our fait refers to what only has a promise to rest upon, and scoffers wil attack it till our Lord is come. They will not believe that he wil come. Because they see no changes, therefore they fear not God, P 55:19. What he never has done, they fancy he never can do, or neve will do.
Greek Textus Receptus
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