Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Peter 1:15

"Yea, I will give diligence that at every time ye may be able after my decease to call these things to remembrance." — 2 Peter 1:15 (ASV)

Moreover I will endeavour.—The verse requires rearranging. “Always” (or better, at all times) belongs to “may be able,” not to “have in remembrance;” and perhaps “moreover” is not quite right. Better: But I will endeavour that you may at all times also (as well as now) have it in your power after my decease to remember these things.

To what does this declaration point? The simplest answer is, to his writing this letter, which they might keep and read whenever they liked. (Compare to 2 Peter 1:13).

Other suggestions are—to his having copies of this letter distributed; or, writing other letters; or, instructing Saint Mark to write his Gospel; or, commissioning “faithful men” to teach these things. There seems to be nothing either for or against these conjectures. It is a coincidence worth noting that, with the Transfiguration in his mind (2 Peter 1:16–18), he uses, in close succession, two words connected in Saint Luke’s account of the Transfiguration (Luke 9:31; Luke 9:33)—“decease” and “tabernacle.”