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John Wesley's notes
on the Epistle: 2 Peter 1:17-21
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For he received divine
honour and inexpressible glory - Shining from heaven above the
brightness of the sun. When there came such a voice from the
excellent glory - That is, from God the Father. Matt 17:5.
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And we - Peter, James,
and John. St. John was still alive. Being with him in the holy mount
- Made so by that glorious manifestation, as mount Horeb was of old,
Exod 3:4,5.
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And we - St. Peter here
speaks in the name of all Christians. Have the word of prophecy -
The words of Moses, Isaiah, and all the prophets, are one and the
same word, every way consistent with itself. St. Peter does not cite
any particular passage, but speaks of their entire testimony. More
confirmed - By that display of his glorious majesty. To which word
ye do well that ye take heed, as to a lamp which shone in a dark
place - Wherein there was neither light nor window. Such anciently
was the whole world, except that little spot where this lamp shone.
Till the day should dawn - Till the full light of the gospel should
break through the darkness. As is the difference between the light
of a lamp and that of the day, such is that between the light of the
Old Testament and of the New. And the morning star - Jesus Christ,
Rev 22:16. Arise in your hearts - Be revealed in you.
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Ye do well, as knowing
this, that no scripture prophecy is of private interpretation - It
is not any man's own word. It is God, not the prophet himself, who
thereby interprets things till then unknown.
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For prophecy came not of
old by the will of man - Of any mere man whatever. But the holy men
of God - Devoted to him, and set apart by him for that purpose,
spake and wrote. Being moved - Literally, carried. They were purely
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