That is, our hope arises from being born anew and this new birth comes in some sense thru Jesus' resurrection. But on one thing we can agree--through what happened there we may enter into a new relationship with God. Hair was waved and dyed, sometimes black, more often auburn. But here the apostle speaks of none of these things, but only of the Spirit separating the saints to obey as Jesus obeyed, and to be sprinkled with His blood. Interestingly enough, Paul shares pretty much equally; has quite a bit to say to the wives but then he has also quite a bit to say to the husbands, as far as the marriage relationships, interpersonal relationships within marriage. In the New Testament the corresponding noun prosagoge ( G4318) is three times used. That is to say, any argument in which the Christian is involved must be carried on in a tone which God can hear with joy. 20:7 ) when the Apostle Peter wrote this epistle; so that What can be more magnificent than this setting of the Christian on his own proper basis? I mean, his eyes got big and he just --he was just telling me, you know, how much he'd enjoyed the message and how it spoke to him, and all, and she comes up with all of this and his eyes get big and all. But when he rose again, he rose with a spiritual body, in which he was rid of the necessary weaknesses of humanity and liberated from the necessary limitations of time and space. them all; and whose spirits, or separate souls, were then in the It was to them that Enoch did, in fact, preach; and there are those who think that what this passage means is not that Christ preached mercy and another chance; but that, in token of his complete triumph, he preached terrible doom to those angels who had sinned. It thus gives point to the saying that He was "quickened in spirit," which would otherwise be left very meaningless. Here are David's comments on verse 19, lightly adapted for readability: A number of alternative interpretations have been given. For Christ communicated a new nature which loves to obey God's will, which accordingly is given us from conversion, before (and it may be long before) a person enjoys peace. Then, even if some refuse to obey the Good News, your godly lives will speak to them without any words. He tells them that strifes and divisions are fleshly things, marks that they are living on purely human standards, without the mind of Christ ( 1 Corinthians 3:3). in which also to the spirits in prison having gone he did preach, The "spirits in prison" are mentioned in the broader context of suffering righteously. and patriarchs, under the former dispensation: others think the of
What Peter literally says is that baptism is an antitype of Noah and his people in the ark. There is the attitude of elimination. bodies; and especially that carnal and unconverted men are ever Next he proceeds to bring in what had to do with others. 1 PETER 3:19 evn w|- kai, Several scholars have advocated the conjectural emendation that introduces the subject "Enoch" (enwkaienw,). Suffering is the way in which power in practice is found against the flesh; so that "he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God." Proved unbelief will be certainly to the praise of none, but where feeble faltering faith has been put in evidence by the trial, while surely forgiven in the grace of God, nevertheless the failure cannot but be judged as such. From there, it next notes, "And when they had brought them." The wording makes it evident that the apostles freely went with the guards and that they were not bound or conducted . At the time of this epistle, it was in due order. It is only when a man falls in love with goodness that the wrong things lose their fascination and their power. How is it that He has been pleased thus to call us? I love you. We can read of the thousands of casualties on the roads with no reaction within our hearts, forgetting that each means a broken body or a broken heart for someone. The unbelieving might taunt the Christians with their scanty numbers, while the great mass still remained Jews, and with the absurdity of such a conclusion to the coming of Messiah. Salvation is here viewed as not yet come. But then, again, as long as Christ was here, it could not be exactly hope. 3:13-15a Who will hurt you, if you are ardent lovers of goodness? Christ died once and for all for sins, the just.for the unjust. If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious; to whom coming as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God and precious, ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." "Heirs together. In the Revelation the song of praise comes from every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth and under the earth ( Revelation 5:13). If people are devoted to Christ and are always ready to give others an explanation for their devotion, they will not fear their persecutors (14-15). Why should this be a cause for vexation? Finally a warning is given as to the importance of suffering according to God's will, committing meanwhile their souls in well-doing to Him as a faithful Creator. Peter offers hope to persecuted Christians and guides. If he, though perfectly just, why should not we, who are all criminals? Revelation 20:11-15). Ministry, then, is clearly in itself a distinct thing from speaking; it is another kind of service to which he is called of God. Again in the 14th verse: "As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: but as he which hath called you is holy, be ye also holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy." ", 1 Peter 2:1-25. 3:17-18a For, it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be the will of God, than to suffer for doing wrong. And this "prison" must not be understood (with Bp. . (i) Right in the forefront he sets Christian unity. In 1 Peter 3:19 he says that Jesus preached to the spirits in prison; and in 1 Peter 4:6 he says that the gospel was preached to them that are dead. And in giving the rule, God was thinking of the other. It is not merely speaking according to His oracles, which is the usual way in which men interpret the passage, and thence derive their license for speaking as they judge fitting without thinking of God's will. And then he takes up what is distinctly spiritual power, which should be used not in charity only but with conscience before God, and for His glory through our Lord Jesus. (iii) Third, Peter sets brotherly love. I mean, here's a --here's a kid, you know, high in LSD telling me, Peace, brother. Through him we have access to God the Father ( Ephesians 2:18). The Spirit by which the preaching in view here was done was the blessed Holy Spirit, by whom and through whom all the preaching has been done throughout the ages. The true beauty isn't that which you put on outwardly but the true beauty is that which is inward, which shines out.I do not believe that Peter is intending here to issue a prohibition against the ladies looking nice. Hence this anxiety of expectation was to them a kind of prison. On the other method of interpretation, we can suggest a reason why they were particularly specified. Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith," not yet the body saved, but soul-salvation "the salvation of souls." So far was their believing in Christ from taking them out of the people, it is then alone that they became, a people. The Jews had brought His government into contempt by their own rebellion against His name; and Jehovah Himself had found it morally needful to hand over His own nation into the power of their enemies. Monday, 7 March 2022 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. The elders are not to treat the flock as if it belonged to them. For the eyes of the Lord [are] over the righteous, and his ears [are open] unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord [is] against them that do evil. bondage. Even so, "Baptism," Peter says, "saves us." It was clearly the consequence of the Holy Ghost being given to him, but the gift of the Spirit is not the sanctification of the Spirit. The more usual fault of those who copied the scriptures was that they added words. In our case it is all through Jesus. It is not that the Jews were not elect as a nation, but therein precisely it is where they stand in contrast with the Christian. For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. Where is each to be proved? Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. They think they have an understanding of scripture, and that they may therefore speak to profit; but it is a totally different thing if one desire only to speak as God's mouthpiece, though it is granted that one may here as elsewhere mistake and fail. That is, He is a royal priest just as truly as His functions are now exercised on the ground of sacrifice, interceding after the Aaronic pattern within the veil but a veil that is rent. in the text from the disobedient spirits. From phulasso; a guarding or, the act, the person; figuratively, the place, the condition, or, the time, literally or figuratively. Noah preached in the power of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit whom Peter has earlier called "the Spirit of Christ" ( 1 Pet. of the Old Testament are in nowise disturbed by Christianity. all this, and which Beza, with others, observes, the apostle John dragging her. Those addressed from among the Jews were among the chosen ones, "elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father.". Christ neither went into this prison, nor preached in it, nor to The early quotations, Greek and Latin, save of Oecumenius, point to the same reading. "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth; because all flesh is as grass, and all its glory as the flower of grass. so called; and besides, the apostle is speaking of such who were He thinks they are his congregation, and they think so too. And when he ascended, he led the captives from their captivity" ( Ephesians 4:8-9 ). It is the grace of the Risen Lord which cleanses us; it is to the Risen, Living Lord that we pledge ourselves; it is to the Risen, Living Lord that we look for strength to keep the pledge that we have given. unto Abraham, so before him. Its full meaning is met by the interpretation that Christ once preached to the spirits then in prison, to wit, in the days of Noah; that is, that he caused a divine message to be borne to them. (4.) Whose adorning let it not be that outward [adorning] of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, [even the ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. It is one of the tragedies of the modern situation that there are so many Church members who, if they were asked what they believe, could not tell, and who, if they were asked why they believe it, would be equally helpless. 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