Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Peter 3:15

15 And account that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written unto you .

Reckon with your selves, and be confidently perswaded; or take for granted.

Viz. In his not yet coming to Judgment, and bearing with so much Sin in the World, without presently punishing it.

I. e. Tends, or conduceth to Salvation, in that hereby he gives space for Repentance to the Elect unconverted, and alloweth time for the building up, and perfecting those that are converted, v. 9.

Not only Brother in Christ, as a Saint, but in Office as an Apostle.

That eminent and profound Knowledg in the Mysteries of the Gospel in which Paul did excel, 1 Cor. 2.6, 7. Eph. 3.3, 4. Peter makes such honourable mention of Paul, 1. That he might commend to the Jewish Christians the Doctrine Paul had preached, though a Minister of the Uncircumcision. 2ly, To shew that he had nothing the worse Thoughts of him for being so sharply reproved by him, Gal. 2, and 3. that he might arm the Saints against those Hereticks that abused Paul's Writings, and wrested them to their own meaning (probably) to patronize their Errors.

Unto you Jewish Believers, viz. either, 1. in his Epistle to the Romans, ch. 2.4. where is a Passage very like this: Or, 2ly. in his Epistle to the Hebrews, which, though it were not entitled to the Iews of the Dispersion, yet was written to their Nation; and in that Epistle several places there are of the same purpose with this here. See Heb. 9.28. and 10.23, 25, 36, 37. and other Epistle of Paul to the Iews we have none; and in this he shews much of that Wisdom God gave him in the Mystery of the Gospel; and in this likewise are many things hard to be understood.