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1 Some versions (notably the NEB and REB) also understand Christ as being addressed as God in verse 9, but this is somewhat less probable.
2 B.B. Warfield, The Lord of Glory (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907), p. 256.
3 Robert Reymond, Jesus, Divine Messiah: the New Testament Witness (Phillipsburg, New Jersey: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1990, p. 299.
4 Michael Green, 2 Peter and Jude, 2nd ed. (Leicester: IVP, 1987), p. 69.
5 Charles Bigg, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1902), p. 251.
6 Murray Harris, Jesus as God: The New Testament Use of Theos in Reference to Jesus (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker 1992), p. 246.
7 Rudolf Schnackenburg, The Johannine Epistles: A Commentary (Tunbridge Wells: Burns and Oates, 1992), p. 263.
8 Richard Lenski, The Interpretation of the Epistles of St. Peter, St. John and St. Jude (Hendrickson, 1998), p. 542.
9 Larry Hurtado, 'Christology' in Dictionary of the Later New Testament and Its Developments (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 1997), p. 176.