Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Grace . . . peace-- (1 Peter 1:2).
through--Greek, "in": the sphere IN which alone grace and peace can be multiplied.
knowledge--Greek, "full knowledge."
of God, and of Jesus our Lord--The Father is here meant by "God," but the Son in 2 Peter 1:1 : marking how entirely one the Father and Son are (John 14:7-11). The Vulgate omits "of God and"; but oldest manuscripts support the words. Still the prominent object of Peter's exhortation is "the knowledge of Jesus our Lord" (a phrase only in Romans 4:24), and, only secondarily, of the Father through Him (2 Peter 1:8; 2 Peter 2:20; 2 Peter 3:18).
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