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Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Peter 1:12

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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1:12-15 Peter was writing at the end of his life, and 2 Peter is similar to works that belong to a popular Jewish genre called the testament, in which an old and respected leader gives final instructions to his children or others on his deathbed (cp. Deut 31–33; Josh 24). This genre is especially well known from a Jewish work called The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.
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