LWB 2 Peter 1:13 Indeed, I consider it my duty [responsibility], as long as I am in this tent [alive in this body], to keep on stirring up your mind by way of remembrance [teaching doctrine by repetition], KW 2 Peter 1:13 Indeed, I consider it due you as long as I am in this tent to keep on arousing you by means of a reminder, KJV 2 Peter 1:13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; TRANSLATION HIGHLIGHTS Peter considers it his duty and responsibility (even privilege) to keep on stirring up their minds by way of remembrance (Iterative Present tense). This is a idiomatic way of saying he is going to repeat some of these important doctrines over-and-over…show more content… Too often we rest on the laurels of past achievements and fail to be alert. We are lulled asleep, as if we are living in peace while the spiritual warfare against Satan and his cohorts is raging all around us. (S. Kistemaker) Sometimes we can do that work all the better when the shadow of approaching death is falling upon us. Our testimony seems more real, deeper, and more convincing, when it comes from men who are on the point of departure, whose immediate future is in the world beyond the grave. (B. Caffin) The body is a covering to the soul; it keeps it from being exposed to the glare of the world. The connection of the body with the soul is not so close but that it can be quickly removed as a shepherd’s tent. (R.…show more content… Peter knew that repetition played an important part in firmly fixing these truths in their minds. (D. Hiebert) The obligation remains as long as life lasts, and it consists of thoroughly arousing the minds of the saints. Minds or memories are the seat from which action proceeds and the most that any believer can do is to arouse his mind. (H. Hoyt) He would arouse their minds to action by reminding them of the truth they had learned from the Word of God. The preacher and teacher should be an intense student of the Word, bringing to his hearers fresh, new truth with the dew of heaven upon it. But there is a place for the repetition of the old truths which the saints know well. Much of it has not yet been put into practice, and the fact that it is repeated gives the Holy Spirit an opportunity to make it experiential in the life of the believer. (K.
