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The one who was perfect died for sinners to bring them to God. 16 having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in christ. But we did not finish that quotation and we do so now: "If you were to catch your wife in an act of infidelity, you can kill her with impunity without a trial; but, if she were to catch you, she would not venture to touch you with her finger and, indeed, she has no right." Through Christ we have access to grace ( Romans 5:2). Women did not share in the worship of the Greeks and the Romans. It might easily be interpreted as if it meant a right for any one to speak. That ethic is what may be called a reciprocal ethic. It speaks of the descent into Hades and the very word descent suggests a three-storey universe in which heaven is localized above the sky and Hades beneath the earth. On the contrary, He knew quite well before coming that He was not here for a long life, but to die on the cross. In this I, for one, do not believe. Now I do not believe there ever can be settled peace in a man's soul till he has confidence in God Himself, according to the truth of His raising up Christ from the dead. He is no longer waiting for the sprinkling of that precious blood, he is already sprinkled with it before God. Thus, as is known, the rejection of the Messiah was incomparably more fruitful of disastrous consequences to the Jew than even had been of old their breach of the divine law. It is used in the Old Testament of bringing to God those who are to be priests. The trial of our faith will not be revealed then, but "at the appearing of Jesus." But at all cost God's will must be done; "by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." It thus gives point to the saying that He was "quickened in spirit," which would otherwise be left very meaningless. (iv) Fourth, Peter sets compassion. Perhaps it is needless to say how the heart is tried. Jesus preached to the souls in prison. I mean, it's getting dangerous living. In this passage Peter has three great things to say about baptism. Now this ought to be a great comfort even to the feeblest of God's children, not an alarm. The time past might well suffice for the wretched gratification of self. Because of their "former" disobedience, they are presently "in prison.". We share together equally in the things of the Lord. The gospel sets forth present accomplishment redemption now a finished work as far as the soul is concerned. But if the word prison be preferred, it would not be unsuitable; for, as while they lived, the Law, according to Paul, (Galatians 3:23,) was a sort of prison in which they were kept; so after death they must have felt the same desire for Christ; for the spirit of liberty had not as yet been fully given. A tyrian cloak of the best purple cost well over 100 British pounds. As it stands this doctrine is stated in categories which are outworn. 3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; ", This leads to another important point; that if we do suffer, it ought never to be for sin, and for the affecting reason that Christ has once for all suffered for sins. It is used in the New Testament, with reference to the future world, only in the following places: 1 Peter 3:19, Preached unto the spirits in prison; and Revelation 20:7, Satan shall be loosed put of his prison.. You may find that which meets guilt in death, but never is salvation short of or separable from the power of resurrection. God has raised Him from the dead and given Him glory. And she feels secure so she has to challenge everything that you do, everything that you say.So these are basic simple rules. AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR INTIMIDATION, AND DO NOT BE TROUBLED, ( NASB: Lockman) Greek: all' ei kai paschoite ( 2PPAO) dia dikaiosunen, makarioi. However this may have been, it is of all importance for the Christian that he should be established in the place of patient submission; as we see Paul elsewhere taking especial pains to insist that the Christians in Rome should obey, even where they had to do with one of the most abandoned men that had ever governed the empire, persecuting themselves to death a short time after. To him it was a question of not doing what his nature prompted him to do. And when he ascended, he led the captives from their captivity" ( Ephesians 4:8-9 ). You wives who have unbelieving husbands, you're more apt to convert them by your lifestyle than you are by putting tracts in their peanut butter sandwiches. To "the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot." Perhaps their enemies will see that they are persecuting without cause, and so feel ashamed of themselves (16-17).As Peter thinks about those who suffer for doing good, he is reminded of the perfect example, Jesus Christ. Hair was waved and dyed, sometimes black, more often auburn. Least of all can the Jews be said to be sown in the land of Palestine. But even now grace gives the believer (here believing Jews) to enter that place; we are now God's people. The more he shows his love, the easier she finds it to submit to him.Now he may be stupid, he may lose everything, but he's here and he loves me and, you know we're together, we'll make it. Thus there was a most thorough conviction of the folly of the Jewish argument as to Christianity being a mere novelty; but it was "manifest in these last times for you who by him do believe in God." Bible Verse; Newest; Oldest; Most Viewed; Sermon. He is the expiation for our sins ( 1 John 2:2). You're everything to me." He feels exceedingly wounded because, as he will tell you very often, "Why, it is one of the best of my people. I can understand them, but do not in the least agree with them. Monday, 7 March 2022 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. Studying the book of 2 Peter 3; shows a significant summary of the history, time and relevant details according to the bible's acts based onBenson Joseph - Bible Commentary and reading parallely the bible's version New King James Version. Here too the apostle does not merely speak, nor is it ever the habit of scripture to speak, in an abstract way of election. The notion has but to be mentioned to be rejected with horror; but it may be pointed out also that in 1Peter 4:6, which refers back to this passage, it is distinctly called a "gospel;" and it would be too grim to call that a gospel which (in Calvin's words) "made it more clear and patent to them that they were shut out from all salvation!" We might put it that the Old Testament event symbolically represents and foreshadows the New Testament event. 1 Peter 3:18-22 contain some very difficult exegetical problems. Whence is the power or the growth in holiness? The priestly sacrifices in the Temple have to be repeated daily but Christ made the perfect sacrifice once and for all when he offered himself up ( Hebrews 7:27). Pearls were loved most of all. The saints, then, are "kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation." Sanctification of the Spirit is altogether distinct from that gift. They "were not a people, but now are the people of God;" they" had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy." Slippers were encrusted with them; Nero even had a room whose walls were covered with them. So it is the lifestyle, the way we live becomes the witness of what we declare.One of the weaknesses of the church is the lack of the positive lifestyle of the believer, professing one thing and living another. So as Paul wrote to the Corinthian church, I don't need that anyone should write letters of commendation for me because you are my living epistles known and read of all men.Our lifestyle testifies to what we believe. What Christ was to them then was all: not in the least did any suspect (for indeed it was not yet true) that any were in Him. He went through a profound work in his conscience after that. Revelation 20:11-15). Over and over again Paul exhorts men to this unity and prays for it. Thus he loves to bring out again confirmatorily the new relationship in which they stood to God. Every time they let her out, she comes around here and rails on me. And here I'm supposed to be a minister telling people how to have peace, and I'm all upset because of this stupid move of his. There is nothing at all in the verse that warrants a web of doctrine strange to the rest of the Bible. Now the new nature in the believer never has any other thought or feeling; only in our case there is also the old nature which may, and which alas! It is Jesus Christ, through what he did, who gives men access to God. So God is often represented as coming, as descending, etc., when he brings a message to mankind. patriarchs from thence, and carried them with him to heaven; but The passage is Isaiah 3:18-24. Antistius Vetus divorced his wife because he saw her secretly speaking to a freed woman in public. Roman matrons were prohibited from drinking wine, and Egnatius beat his wife to death when he found her doing so. But in the destruction by the flood eight people--Noah and his wife, his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth, and their wives--were brought to safety in the ark. They should also try to avoid all forms of wrongdoing. But it is a reality, and from that time this sanctification of the Spirit becomes a fact. Christ was once and for all offered to bear the sin of many ( Hebrews 9:28). And so it's a word that has lost its meaning through the years when this translation was made. For a wife to change her religion while her husband did not was unthinkable. (i) Peter begins by insisting on a passionate love of goodness. Such as communion is condemning to the person who doesn't believe. It was, and still is, no uncommon sight in the East to see the man riding on a donkey while the woman trudged by his side. A marriage must be based on reciprocal obligation. "Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind." All this was thoroughly in season; and after it, as we are told, the blindness was taken away, and he was filled with the Holy Ghost. Isaiah 49:9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. So they were saved by the water or by the ark in the water. One must exercise and give oneself up to the cultivation of that gift which God has given. Acts 17:1 (NKJV) 1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. And the idea is to encourage the young men not to look for a pretty face but to look for a good cook.But the true beauty, beauty that doesn't fade, the beauty that grows with years is that inner beauty. (2) The Descent Into Hell ( 1 Peter 3:18 b-20;4:6 Continued). Nehemiah 9:30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands. You know you get out and rail at someone, this guy's going to pull a gun at you. He is going to judge them in the next world. 3. We do honour to the world and shame to this our place by seeking its favours. This is both true and important in its place. In our case it is all through Jesus. Second, it is improbable that the "sons of God" were angels. Just you know, if he had gotten out railing, I'm sure I would have jumped out of the car and ran up and grabbed him and told him what a stupid move that was, you know. "If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar" ( 1 John 4:20). Sep 19, 2015. Others, as the Papists, imagine the sense to be, that Christ, at his death, went in his human soul, into a place they call "Limbus Patrum", which they suppose is meant by the prison here, and delivered the souls of the Old Testament saints and patriarchs from thence, and carried them with him to heaven; but this sense is also false, because, as before observed, not the human soul of Christ, but his divine nature, is designed by the Spirit; nor is there any such place as here feigned, in which the souls of Old Testament saints were, before the death of Christ; for they were in peace and rest, in the kingdom of heaven, in Abraham's bosom, inheriting the promises, and not in a prison; besides, the text says not one word of the delivering of these spirits out of prison, only of Christ's preaching to them: add to all this, and which Beza, with others, observes, the apostle speaks of such as had been disobedient, and unbelievers; a character which will not agree with righteous men, and prophets, and patriarchs, under the former dispensation: others think the words are to be understood of Christ's going to preach, by his apostles, to the Gentiles, as in Ephesians 2:17 who were in a most miserable condition, strangers to the covenants of promise, and destitute of the hope of salvation, and sat in darkness, and the shadow of death, and, as it were, at the gates of hell; were in the bonds of iniquity, and dead in sin, and had been for long time past foolish and disobedient, serving divers lusts and pleasures, to which they were in bondage. 1 Peter 3:19 (GNTA) and in his spiritual existence he went and preached to the imprisoned spirits. It is not merely the work effected, but salvation revealed; and hence it necessarily awaits the revelation of Jesus Christ. The death of Christ upon the Cross, however we explain it, avails to restore the lost relationship between God and man. It is not a question of that; but of a soul quickened by the Spirit through the truth received in ever so simple and limited a manner. Some woman really railed on me this morning, now it isn't the first time. It belongs to the condition in which man is that, being fallen, and yet having a conscience of the good that alas! righteousness, and preached both by words and deeds, by the The word , spirits, is supposed to render this view of the subject improbable, because this must mean disembodied spirits; but this certainly does not follow, for the spirits of just men made perfect, Hebrews 12:23, certainly means righteous men, and men still in the Church militant; and the Father of spirits, Hebrews 12:9, means men still in the body; and the God of the spirits of all flesh, Numbers 16:22; Numbers 27:16, means men not in a disembodied state. It is the constant and notorious source of the difficulties that one has continually to contend with, because feelings are roused by this all sorts of jealousies and wounded feelings are created by a position so false. His traditions wrap him up in fog. It never places all the responsibility on one side. Purgatory, or the limbus patrum, say the Romanists - a place in which departed souls are supposed to be confined, and in which their final destiny may still be effected by the purifying fires which they endure, by the prayers of the living, or by a message in some way conveyed to their gloomy abodes - in which such sins may be expiated as do not deserve eternal damnation. Such is Christianity. And so we find it in fact and in Scripture. Hence there is no reason to fear that it will not flow to us. Finally, [be ye] all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. The one cannot exist without the other; it is only when we forgive others their sins against us that we are forgiven our sins against God ( Matthew 6:12; Matthew 6:14-15). It is tragic to realize how far men are from realizing this unity in their personal lives and how far the Church is from realizing it within herself. It is the foundation for it; and every one who rests on the blood of Christ is surely a Christian; but I repeat that, both for position before God and intelligent perception and power of soul, we need and have much more. It is a capital offense to convert a Moslem. Christianity alone settles all questions. Thus the passage is sufficiently plain. 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. There is the appearance of it in the last chapter of this very epistle, but this is due solely to the meddling hand of man. Confound the one with the other and you upset the gospel: distinguish sanctification in principle from the beginning for all from sanctification in practice in the various measures of believers, and you learn the truth of what Peter here teaches, which is forgotten for the most part in Christendom. of the Vulgate before me, the clause is thus: In quo et his qui in carcere erant SPIRITU venient praedicavit; "in which, coming by the Spirit, he preached to those who were in prison." "Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; neither as being lords over God's heritage." It is evident that the Lord might come and make Himself visible only to those in whom He is distinctly interested, and who are themselves personally associated with Him; and such, I have no doubt, is the truth of scripture. It is well known that such expressions are often redundant in Greek writers, as in others. Such was Hades, into which the spirits of all men went after death. That government may differ in character and depth; there may be at a fitting moment a far closer dealing with souls (as undoubtedly this is the case since redemption). The whole attitude of ancient civilization was that no woman could dare take any decision for herself. So then, according to Jewish legend, Enoch did go to Hades and preach doom to the fallen angels. The more she challenges your decisions, the colder you become and, you know, and so you can just tear a marriage apart.And so these are important rules. 18 for christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might (b) It is argued that Jesus preached to the fallen angels, and preached, not salvation, but final and awful doom. He teaches the duty of wives and husbands to each other; He declares also the benefits of Christ toward the old world. In every business contract there was a definite question and answer which made the contract binding. Likewise ye wives be in subjection to your own husbands that if any obey not the word they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives 1 Peter 3:1 Hebrew Bible 1 Peter 3:1 Aramaic NT: Peshitta gain access to 50+ premium resources to enhance your study of Scripture. So "bless those that curse you," Jesus said. But then they are "his congregation;" they think so, and the godly man really believes it. He really experienced death, and rose again. But you need never be afraid of trusting God or His word. In this passage we can see how Peter was soaked in the Old Testament; there are two Old Testament foundations for it. It is not a spineless submission that is meant but, as someone has finely put it, a "voluntary selflessness." He must be considerate and sensitive to the feelings of his wife. This is to speak "as oracles of God." She must be submissive. by all sorts of circumstances, and above all by the evil of our old nature that surrounds it, in Him, as we know, absolutely perfect and without mixture. The epistle to the Hebrews of all the Pauline epistles is that which most approaches the testimony of Peter, and coalescing in it to a large extent. On this is founded the spiritual priesthood, and in consequence we who are His draw near and offer up spiritual sacrifices. The Christian does not belong to the world, and consequently is not bound by accidents of time. You want to have a good life, you want to see good days, these are --these are the rules: Just "keep your tongue, refrain it from evil, speaking evil, and your lips from speaking deceitfully. former is impracticable and impossible; for after death follows What makes you different? 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. This was done in the mighty work of the Saviour on the cross; and not the fact only but its results were made good when Christ, after having breathed His own risen life into them, went up to heaven and sent down the Holy Ghost that they might taste the joy and have the power of it. Take Psalms 22:1-31 or Isaiah 53:1-12, where we have the sufferings which belonged to Christ, and the glories after these. They see Him doing so through Noah. He was about to be a sacrifice for sin, giving Himself up spite of suffering, not only from man, but from God. It does not seem to be of such prime importance that much need be said. This word introduces us to a special way of looking at the Old Testament. 1 Peter 3:9 Hebrew Bible. Then comes the general exhortation: "Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, pitiful, lowly-minded: not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing." Are thy wonders known in the darkness, or thy saving help in the land of forgetfulness?" The Jew, as such, was bound to obey the law. It was Christianity which introduced chivalry into the relationship between men and women. a great many perished. They were tempted by the beauty of mortal women; they came to earth, seduced them and begat children; and because of their action, it is inferred, the wickedness of man was great and his thoughts were always evil. It is not here blessing them in heavenly places in Christ. There is given to the soul of him who thus rests on God's power keeping him a wholly different tone from that of the man who thinks of his own perseverance as a saint. manifestation, made known unto them: but though the word may "Whom," says he, "having not seen, ye love." When the suffering is part of the human situation, it still cannot despoil him of the most precious things in life. "Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the appearing of Jesus Christ." So when He died, He descended into hell. "Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope perfectly," etc. 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 ( 1 Peter 3:10-12 ). What Peter is saying is: "Love goodness with that passionate intensity with which the most fanatical patriot loves his country." It would be well if all were clearly to understand what they are doing when they take upon themselves membership of the Church. "Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy." It is only when a man falls in love with goodness that the wrong things lose their fascination and their power. God himself.". So man fell into sin; as the result, lost fellowship with God. In 1 Peter 2:21-25 Peter mentioned Jesus behavior during His passion (1 Peter 2:21-23), His death on the cross (1 Peter 2:24 a), and His present ministry as the Shepherd and Guardian of our souls (1 Peter 2:24-25). (3) The language employed does not demand this interpretation. Isaiah had called Sara the mother of God's faithful people ( Isaiah 51:2); and if Christian wives are adorned with the same graces of modesty, humility and chastity, they too will be her daughters and will be within the family of the faithful people of God. Peter has just laid down the duty of wives; now he lays down the duty of husbands. This is the reading also in the Complutensian Polyglot. He did not mean the mere outward act of baptism. And the apostle guards against the wrong conclusion, that, because in certain things we stand contrasted with the Old Testament saints, there are no grounds in common. Let this be enough. We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ once and for all ( Hebrews 10:10). It supposes that the believer is brought out of all that is natural even as to the body that he is already changed into the likeness of Christ. Thus he says to the Jews addressed that they were not a people (that is, in the days of their unbelief), but are now. Some of the most beautiful people in the world, that beautiful inner beauty; you love to be around them because there's just such a beauty that comes forth from their lives. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. But the lower obedience is absorbed by the higher one when they come into collision; and this is the only seeming exception. This had nothing at all to do with atonement a supposition which only arises from people closing their eyes to other truths in the Bible, to their own great loss even in the truth they hold. But besides this, the gospel, instead of putting a man under blood as a threat or imprecation of death in case of failure, the awful sign of his doom before his eyes if he disobeyed, puts him under the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus, which assures him of plenary forgiveness. Give her that security; give her that strength. Although this passage is one of the most difficult in the New Testament, it begins with something which anyone can understand. Now all this is here judged and set aside as quite wrong The elders are exhorted and warned. But "God did not leave his soul in hell, neither did he allow the Holy One to see corruption," but this same Jesus has God raised from the dead ( Acts 2:27 ). In regard to this doctrine there have always been differing attitudes amongst thinkers. Therefore God has His own wise, holy, and gracious mode of dealing with it. They too, those who had been before them, had been put to the proof in this way. And in the act of being baptized the man answered: "Yes.". And this kid said, I didn't know what was going on, I was --I was ready to do something. 3:3-6 Let not your adornment be an outward thing of braided hair and ornaments of gold and wearing of robes, but let it be an adornment of the inward personality of the heart, wrought by the unfading loveliness of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. The" sanctification of the Spirit" here spoken of is absolute. On the other hand, if he gives to Jesus Christ the unique place in his life, the most precious thing for him is his relationship to God and nothing can take that from him. (1) THE MARKS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE ( 1 Peter 3:8-12 ). NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Paul will tell you so, even after he shows that the Christian is dead to the law; and then a term is used to show that he does not at all mean that the righteousness of the law is not fulfilled in us, but that it is. There is not one of them who has not really sanctification of the Spirit They may be troubled as to the question of practical holiness, but the fundamental and essential sanctification of the Spirit is that which is already true of all the children of God. being put to death in the flesh, but he was made alive by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits that were in prison; Which sometimes were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by the water ( 1 Peter 3:18-20 ). And was not this before he knew all the comfort and blessing of the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus? But then He may do more and display Himself to the world. prison of hell, so the Syriac version renders it, (lwyvb) , "in hell", see ( Revelation The partaking of the bread and the cup, if you --if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, you're actually partaking your own damnation. Peter here introduced more information about Jesus activity in His spirit (i.e., His post-resurrection sphere of life), in addition to what he said about His resurrection from the dead (1 Peter 3:18), to encourage his readers. died, their separate souls were put into prison, and there they Who are referred to by spirits? What is meant by in prison? Was the message brought to them while in the prison, or at some previous period? 1.3M views 6 years ago Watch our overview video on 1 Peter, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. As Bigg puts it: "The sighs of the injured wife come between the husband's prayers and God's hearing." This is founded on the very principle of Christianity itself; that is, doing good, suffering for it, and taking it patiently. One group of interpreters believes Jesus went to the realm of the dead and preached to Noahs contemporaries between His crucifixion and His resurrection. They observe, and then, he said, they have to see a miracle and answer to prayer. But the men and women of Noah's generation, notwithstanding "God's patience" in delaying judgment, spurned that proclamation. For, in the nature of things, he may lose these things at any moment. And he, speaking, said; that is, he said. Here we have basically the same picture. From phulasso; a guarding or, the act, the person; figuratively, the place, the condition, or, the time, literally or figuratively. God puts us to the proof; and, undoubtedly, if there be unbelief working, we must eat the bitter fruit of our own ways. 1 Peter 3:15 The New King James Version (NKJV) 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; 1 Peter 3:15 New Century Version (NCV) 15 But respect Christ as the holy Lord in your hearts. Then this explanation cannot be right. One could say that Jesus proclaimed a message to Noahs unbelieving contemporaries in His spirit (i.e., His spiritual state of life before the Incarnation) through Noah. We have seen that the attempt at the elimination of this passage fails. But to take very simple and obvious examples, the Passover Lamb and the scapegoat, who bore the sins of the people, are types of Jesus; and the work of the High Priest in making sacrifice for the sins of the people is a type of his saving work. But as the obscurity of this passage has produced, as usual, various explanations, I shall first disprove what has been brought forward by some, and secondly, we shall seek its genuine and true meaning. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord ( 1 Peter 3:5-6 ): Now I don't expect that you women are going to go this far as to call your husbands "lord", unless it's tongue-in-cheek. From Philippi to Thessalonica Now note the shift back to the third person, which seems to signify that Luke stayed behind in Philippi to minister to the Church there. And just how it all vanished. The like figure whereunto [even] baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him. There is another sense of salvation, and our apostle, as we shall shortly find, does not in anywise ignore it; but then he qualifies the term. It just noted that he had gone down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there. how often and readily the. Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures ( 1 Corinthians 15:3). So you, husbands don't try to pounce on this scripture and use it as a club to beat your wives in submission. And this hippie kid, you know the beard and the whole thing, got out of his van and he looked back at me and just came with a peace sign, you know.You know suddenly I felt real terrible about laying on my horn and the attitude that I had. God has chosen individuals. Many great scholars have accepted that view; but we do not think it is the view which comes naturally from Peter's words. And she feels that security and she needs to feel that security. (ii) Peter calls baptism the pledge of a good conscience to God ( 1 Peter 3:21). The answer is this: "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ." They're basic to a good marriage, because the more the wife submits to her husband, the easier he finds it to show his love. in which he went and made a proclamation to those imprisoned spirits. salvation, and were looking out for the Messiah, and anxiously Cato the Censor insisted on simplicity; Lucius Valerius answered: "Why should men grudge women their ornaments and their dress? Never should I for one blame their tenacity in adhering to the truth and duty of advancing in practical holiness, or what they call sanctification. It was the sign of a good woman that she must see as little, hear as little and ask as little as possible. Thirdly, it seems very strange, that Peter, speaking of the apostles, should immediately, as though forgetting himself, go back to the time of Noah. We do not hear now of the gift of the Spirit. With this verse a new paragraphextending to 1 Peter 3:22 inclusivebegins, closely connected by (i.e. of Then the flood came and took them all away; but their spirits are now kept in prison waiting for that judgment which has no end. ! And you have become her children, if you do good, and if you do not become a prey to fluttering fears. 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. The merit and perfection of Christ's sacrifice were such that for him to suffer once was enough. The way of the most is neither the best, the wisest, nor the safest way to follow: better to follow the eight in the ark than the eight millions drowned by the flood and damned to hell. It is equally true, however, that from the beginning of his first epistle, Peter draws out the contrast of the Christian place with their old Jewish one. The point that Peter is making is that, even if the Christian is compelled to suffer unjustly for his faith, he is only walking the way that his Lord and Saviour has already walked. This is not the sanctification of the Spirit. If he, though perfectly just, why should not we, who are all criminals? Here in Christianity emerged the revolutionary principle that women had equal spiritual rights and with that the relationship between the sexes was changed. In this case, however, it is difficult to see the purpose of the digression, or what could have brought the subject into St. Peter's mind. The Christian ethic never grants a privilege without a corresponding obligation. Be a softie; be tenderhearted. The specification in the next verse determines this. Peter, as it were, gathers together the great qualities of the Christian life. By which also he went and preached unto the spirits you are the daughters of Sarah, as long as you do well, and are not afraid with any amazement ( 1 Peter 3:6 ). prison. She had no kind of independent existence and no kind of mind of her own, and her husband could divorce her almost at caprice, so long as he returned her dowry. No ability constitutes a gift; but the spiritual gift does not supersede natural ability, which becomes the channel of the gift, as the gift is given and works in accordance with that ability. God would bring Peters readers safely through their trials just as He had brought Noah safely through his trials into a whole new world. Matthew 24:37-39//Luke 17:26-27)." Isaiah 42:7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. These Christian Jews were not sown in the earth. 211.]. As a matter of fact, "he went and preached" is just a Biblical way of saying he preached. WELLINGTON, July 9 - The ESV Study Bible, Another view is that Christs resurrection and ascension were the proclamation of victory over the most extreme powers of evil the earth has ever known, which these imprisoned spirits represent. In this chapter (1 Peter 4:1-19) we come to the divine government in dealing with nature opposing itself to the will of God. the gates of hell; were in the bonds of iniquity, and dead in the just [died] for the unjust ( 1 Peter 3:18 ), "God made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin" ( 2 Corinthians 5:21 ). *In fact but one uncial (Cod. Such is not., the topic of Peter; it had been given to another instrument more fitted for revealing the heavenly position of the believer. This is the more important, because of itself it completely dissipates a thought as common as it is grievous to the Lord, that Christ is the one in whom the love is, and that His task for the most part is to turn away the totally opposite feeling that is in God Himself. One thing is clear, sympathy and selfishness cannot coexist. 3:1-2 Likewise, you wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that, if there are any who refuse to believe the word, they may be won for Christ without a word because they have seen your pure and reverent behaviour. Next he proceeds to bring in what had to do with others. It is beyond cavil that the many perished then, and still fewer were saved than the Christian Jews at that time. You can't do it with words; they have to see the Gospel demonstrated in your life. He was opposed, reviled, disbelieved, and, we may suppose, persecuted. At the same time, the day is not yet come for the fulfilment of the prophecies as a whole. I pray that God will always grant to me a tender heart, a heart of compassion. This is exactly what modern presbyters think they may and ought to do every day of their lives. II. The exhortation is not limited to slaves. And He preached to those souls that were in prison. I suppose there was a danger of these Christian Jews being somewhat turbulent. The appearing of Jesus is exclusively when the Lord will make Himself visible, and be seen by every eye. Immediately the idea of being brought to safety through the water turns Peter's thoughts to Christian baptism, which is also a bringing to safety through the water. But Jesus Christ brings us to God; he opens the way for all men to his nearer presence. Have no fear of them; do not be troubled; but in your hearts give Christ a unique place. In this case, then, it seems to me that the order is divinely perfect, and manifestly so. Noah faced the same type of opposition in his day that Peters original readers did in theirs and we do in ours. There may be no sense of liberty yet, nor even joy in the Lord; there can be no solid peace whatever. And if you read it in Amplified, I think these guys were male chauvinists because they really jump onto this and amplify it almost to an extreme. The word of God, prayer, the use that we make of the opportunities that His goodness affords us, both public and private, all the means that teach and exercise us in the will of God no doubt contribute to this practical holiness. A man may have more than one attitude to goodness. For this is why the gospel was preached even to the dead, so that, although they have already been judged in the flesh like men, they might live in the Spirit like God. It is granted that, even in connection with spiritual gift in the way of speaking, there is such a thing as the natural ability of the person taken into account; but this is not the gift, though it be the suited vehicle for it. I am not speaking of a particular doctrine. 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). ungodly", ( 2 Peter 2:5 ) and You know, they could hold you down until you drown and it still won't save you. Because the more cold and aloof you are, the less secure she feels. I love you. The modern parallel is entering upon full membership of the Church. What they were here directed to was to "feed the flock of God." May 11, 1986. In 1 Peter 3:19 it states that Christ 'went and preached to the spirits in prison'. Speaking of God he says, "Who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven." 1 Peter 4. And here it is well to observe, as an important fact to be recognised, that salvation in Peter's epistle looks onward to the future, where it is not otherwise qualified. in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, Young's Literal Translation. (ii) He lays it down that that sacrifice was for sin. "[31] Herodotus often used such expressions as "he spoke, saying," or "he speaking, said," and we have the same kind of an expression in "he went and preached." 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 . "How can we obey men that worship stocks and stones, whose very religion makes them immoral and degraded?" In Ephesians chapter four, Paul tells us that "He who has ascended is the same one who first of all descended into the lower parts of the earth. C. E. B. Cranfield writes so finely of this that we cannot do other than quote his whole comment in full, lengthy though it is: "The New Testament never treats this agreeing in Christ as an unnecessary though highly desirable spiritual luxury, but as something essential to the true being of the Church. Who are referred to by spirits? [Note: Michaels, p. Gods saving of Noah and his family by means of the ark illustrates the salvation of believers. That is an extremely interesting and ingenious suggestion but without doubt it must be rejected. Here are David's comments on verse 19, lightly adapted for readability: A number of alternative interpretations have been given. This passage, therefore, cannot be adduced to support the Roman Catholic doctrine of purgatory, because: (1)The essential ideas which enter into the doctrine of purgatory are not to be found in the word used here; (2)There is no evidence in the fair interpretation of the passage that any message is borne to them while in prison; (3)There is not the slightest hint that they can be released by any prayers or offerings of those who dwell on the earth. It comes, second, from the fact that the Christian has a new standard of comparison. This would completely do away with the idea of the descent into Hades. "What profit is there in my death if I go down to the pit? Sacrament is derived from the Latin sacramentum, which means a soldier's oath of loyalty on entering the army. called preaching; and besides, not believers, but unbelievers, he went and preached to them: and as for the ends proposed, the Well, the thing is I know the woman; I know her problems. The name of Enoch does not appear in any Greek manuscript. The word we have translated an ardent lover is zelotes ( G2207) ; which is often translated Zealot. Various are the senses given of this passage: some say, that Christ, upon his death, went in his human soul to hell; either, as some, to preach to the devils and damned spirits, that they might be saved, if they would; and, as others, to let them know that he was come, and to fill them with dread and terror; but though hell may be meant by the prison, yet the text does not say that he went unto it, or preached in it; only that the spirits were in it, to whom he sometimes went, and preached; nor is his human soul, but his divine nature meant, by the Spirit, by which he went and preached to them: and as for the ends proposed, the former is impracticable and impossible; for after death follows judgment, which is an eternal one; nor is there any salvation, or hope of salvation afterwards; and the latter is absurd, vain, and needless. The more seriously we take the New Testament, the more urgent and painful becomes our sense of the sinfulness of the divisions, and the more earnest our prayers and strivings after the peace and unity of the Church on earth. The simplest test of the reality of the Christianity of a man or a Church is whether or not it makes them love their fellow-men. This is not by any means the only meaning of blood, even where it was sacrificially employed. 15 ! Publius Sempronius Sophus divorced his wife because once she went to the public games. Shall we turn now to First Peter chapter three as Peter addresses himself to the wives? vvvv RP 1 Peter 2:1 He that would love life, And see good days, Let him keep his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking guile: Let him turn away from evil and do right; Let him seek peace, and pursue it, For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears are open to their prayer; But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil. There are three obvious inquiries in ascertaining its signification. Here we find the various relations of life practically met. Where this is duly weighed, it is wonderful what a change is produced in the mind, tone, and temper a change both in those who tend the flock, and in those who are cared for; because then God is looked to, and there is no petty feeling of infringing the rights of man in one form or another. Quintilian, the Roman master of oratory, wrote: "A tasteful and magnificent dress, as the Greek poet tells us, lends added dignity to the wearer: but effeminate and luxurious apparel fails to adorn the body, and only reveals the sordidness of the mind." The preaching was in the days of Noah. as some, to preach to the devils and damned spirits, that they Thus we would expect that evil angels are in view, but does what Peter said about them confirm this identification? The epistles of Peter are addressed to the elect Jews of his day, believing of course on the Lord Jesus, and scattered throughout a considerable portion of Asia Minor. 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. And this is fortified, singular to say, (but confirming what has been already remarked) by the Psalms. so called; and besides, the apostle is speaking of such who were The Christian is humble because he is constantly aware of his utter dependence on God and that of himself he can do nothing. But there are some problems with this theory. prison, and were saved; though these are manifestly distinguished Let him meet criticism with a life which is beyond reproach. In two very ancient MSS. 1 Likewise. 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The word rendered prison, ( phulake,) means properly watch, guard - the act of keeping watch, or the guard itself; then watchpost, or station; then a place where anyone is watched or guarded, as a prison; then a watch in the sense of a division of the night, as the morning watch. And this "prison" must not be understood (with Bp. Noah preached in the power of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit whom Peter has earlier called "the Spirit of Christ" ( 1 Pet. Others explain this passage of the apostles, that Christ by their ministry appeared to the dead, that is, to unbelievers. And who [is] he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? All rights reserved. "For for this cause was the gospel preached to the dead also, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit." Julius Caesar bought for Servilia a pearl which cost him 65,250 British pounds. 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