The Knowledge of Him

Second Peter is a dying man’s last letter. “I know that my tabernacle will soon be removed,” the apostle writes (2 Peter 1:14), and everything in these three chapters is written under that shadow and in that light. Against false teachers who denied the Master who bought them and scoffed at the promise of his coming, Peter sets one anchor and sounds it from the first verse to the last: the true, saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

The Knowledge of Him walks the whole letter through its Greek, term by term, for readers with little or no Greek as much as for those who have some. The aim is not technical display but clarity: to let Peter’s words land with the weight they carried, and to show how a confessional reading hears law and gospel — from “a faith just as precious as ours” to the closing command to “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior.”

It is free — a manuscript-length study in nine sessions to read on your own or to open with a class, free for congregational use. If it serves you, Ordinary Means is where new material is announced first.

Several of 2 Peter’s key words have full entries in the free Greek Word Explorer — including pistis, charis, eirēnē, parousia, and metanoia.