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Your Body, A Temporary Tent
Commentators universally highlight Peter's use of the word "tabernacle" to describe his body. This metaphor, like a temporary tent, emphasizes that our physical life is short and transient. It's a humble, movable dwelling for our eternal soul, reminding us to focus on what lasts forever.
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2 Peter
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Peter 1:13
18th Century
Theologian
Yea, I think it meet. I think it is fitting for me as an apostle. It is my appropriate duty, a duty which is felt more strongly as the clo…
AT Robertson
On 2 Peter 1:13
I think it right (δικαιον ηγουμα). Peter considers this to be his solemn duty, "right" (δικαιον). Cf. Php 3:1;[Reference Ephesians…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Peter 1:13
19th Century
Bishop
Yea, I think it meet.—Better, But I think it right. So the Rheims version; Tyndale and Cranmer have “notwithstanding.” Th…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 2 Peter 1:13
19th Century
Preacher
Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
When people are as they sho…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 2 Peter 1:13
That Peter knows that he will not always live in “the tent of this body” underlines what he has been saying. The word “tent” (GK 5013; cf. 5008) wa…
John Calvin
On 2 Peter 1:13
16th Century
Theologian
Yes, I think it fitting, or right. He expresses more clearly how useful and necessary admonition is, because it is necessary to a…
John Gill
On 2 Peter 1:13
17th Century
Pastor
Yea, I think it meet
Or "just". This is the apostle's other reason for his conduct, taken from the duty of his place and offic…
Matthew Henry
On 2 Peter 1:12–15
17th Century
Minister
We must be established in the belief of the truth, so that we are not shaken by every wind of doctrine; and especially in the truth necessary for u…