THE

penman of this epistle appears plainly to be the same who wrote the

foregoing; and, whatever difference some learned men apprehend they

discern in the style of this epistle from that of the former, this

cannot be a sufficient argument to assert that it was written by Simon

who succeeded the apostle James in the church at Jerusalem, inasmuch as

he who wrote this epistle calls himself Simon Peter, and an

apostle

(v. 1),

and says that he was one of the three apostles that were present at

Christ’s transfiguration

(v. 18),

and says expressly that he had written a former epistle to them,
ch. iii. 1.

The design of this second epistle is the same with that of the former,

as is evident from the

first verse of the third chapter,

whence observe that, in the things of God, we have need of precept

upon precept, and line upon line, and all little enough to keep

them in remembrance; and yet these are the things which should be most

faithfully recorded and frequently remembered by us.