ACC ~ 2 Peter 1 v16

SEEING THE TRUTH. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: The constructions of the heretics are myths and human fantasies, which Paul wants us to avoid, as he writes: “Warn a heretic once or twice, and after that have nothing to do with him.” Peter is here already starting to do battle against the heretics. To the extent that they do not possess the truth, heretics are obliged to concoct a lie by using flowery words. But we are not like that, he says, because we saw the truth with our eyes when we were with him on the mountain. Therefore we have the prophets who have proclaimed the same truth to us, and even better, as we came to behold ourselves, the Word came to us. What the prophets foretold, Christ fulfilled when he appeared. We were witnesses of this, and we heard the Father’s testimony also. CATENA.

THE POWER AND COMING OF OUR LORD. BEDE: In this verse Peter strikes out at pagans and at heretics as well. Pagans were not afraid to divinize anything they happened to like, whereas heretics, although they received the mysteries of the true God, paid no attention to the teaching of Scripture but by wrongly interpreting it did their best to twist it to suit their own falsehoods. ON 2 PETER.

NO CLEVERLY DEVISED MYTHS. OECUMENIUS: Peter says that he has not invented stories like those of the Valentinians but merely handed on the teaching of Christ in simple and humble words, as Paul also told the Corinthians he was doing. COMMENTARY ON 2 PETER.

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