Moreover, I will endeavour
He signifies, that he should not only use all diligence to stir
them up to, and put them in remembrance of the necessary duties
of their calling while he was alive, but should make it his study
to concert some measures, and take some steps,
that you may be able after my decease:
or Exodus, meaning his going out of this world by death, in
allusion to the Israelites going out of Egypt, and marching for
Canaan's land; this world being, like Egypt, a place of
wickedness, misery, and bondage; as heaven, like Canaan, a place
and state of rest and happiness.
To have these things always in remembrance;
by which they might be always put in mind of them, or by
recurring to which they might have their memories refreshed; and
what he means is, to leave these exhortations and admonitions in
writing, which they might read, and be of use to them when he was
dead and gone; and indeed by this, and his former epistle, though
being dead, he yet speaketh.
