Charles Spurgeon Commentary 2 Peter 1:16

"For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty." — 2 Peter 1:16 (ASV)

For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

There is need in these perilous times to come back to such an elementary truth as this. The truths taught us in God's Word are not fables, myths, or merely parables, but they are matters of actual fact.

The apostles were eyewitnesses of the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ—eyewitnesses of his majesty. We receive these truths without the slightest question, and base our faith upon them.

We should be troubled indeed if we had any doubts whatsoever about these great foundation facts of our holy religion.

For we have not followed cunningly devised fables,-

He had no retractions to make as he came towards the close of his ministry. He did not have to say that, after all, he had been greatly mistaken; there had been an advance in theology since Jesus Christ had died, and he was sorry to say that he had preached a good deal when he was young which he would like to unsay now that he was old.

Oh, no! Peter held fast to what he had previously preached because he knew that it was the very truth of God, and the other apostles had done the same, so that Peter could write, We have not followed cunningly devised fables,-