ACC ~ 2 Peter 1 v6

SUPPLEMENT KNOWLEDGE WITH SELF-CONTROL. GREGORY THE GREAT: Those who fast must be very careful to make sure that in running away from the desires of the stomach they do not give birth to vices which are much worse, almost as if their virtue were producing them. For it is easy to mortify the flesh but at the same time to become very impatient in spirit, and this impatience upsets the minds of many who abstain from the desires of the world. COMMENTARY ON 2 PETER.

SELF-CONTROL WITH STEADFASTNESS. BEDE: As people learn to do good, so they will soon stop doing evil. If anyone does not do so his knowledge of heavenly things disappears as if in a vacuum. Self-control requires steadfastness, because whoever has learned to stay away from the pleasures of this world needs the willpower to go on doing so. The person who reaches that point of self-discipline may truly be called godly. ON 2 PETER.

TEMPERANCE AND PATIENCE. THEOPHYLACT: Next in the list comes abstinence, or temperance. This is necessary in order to ensure that those who get this far are not carried away by the magnitude of the gift they have received and become haughty as a result. Patience follows next, because it takes time to acquire temperance, and without patience a person is liable to give up and fall into something even worse than what he has been delivered from. Patience increases our trust in God, which is why godliness comes next. COMMENTARY ON 2 PETER.

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