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I pray that God will always grant to me a tender heart, a heart of compassion. This is both true and important in its place. bodies; and especially that carnal and unconverted men are ever But there is need also of present strength from God to those who look to Him. The whole attitude of ancient civilization was that no woman could dare take any decision for herself. All that is needful is to identify them as the same persons who once had this prospect. you are the daughters of Sarah, as long as you do well, and are not afraid with any amazement ( 1 Peter 3:6 ). ! Thus he shows that even if you look at those that are dead, there was no difference. And the answer, before witnesses was: "Yes." 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. It is not exactly "the answer of a good conscience." 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. Noah preached in the power of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit whom Peter has earlier called "the Spirit of Christ" ( 1 Pet. It doesn't hurt, but it pays big dividends. Cato the Censor insisted on simplicity; Lucius Valerius answered: "Why should men grudge women their ornaments and their dress? God has a right to use whom He pleases, according to His own sovereign will and wisdom; but the truth is, that if you have received a gift, you are not only at liberty but rather bound to use it in Christ's name. "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" The suffering of Christ was for us; and the mystery is that he who deserved no suffering bore that suffering for us who deserved to suffer. "For there is neither male nor female, bond or free: Christ is all and in all" ( Colossians 3:11 ). I have lost the cream of my congregation." others, to the eight souls that were shut up in the ark, as in a We have first seen one of them, "a holy priesthood;" there is another lower down, in verse 9, where he says, "Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood." That is, our hope arises from being born anew and this new birth comes in some sense thru Jesus' resurrection. This doctrine of the descent into Hades, as we must now call it, is based on two phrases in our present passage. Amplified: If you are censured and suffer abuse [because you bear] the name of Christ, blessed [are youhappy, fortunate, to be envied, with life-joy, and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of your outward condition], because the Spirit of glory, the Spirit of God, is resting upon you. 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. He had gone and preached unto the spirits, By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison. ( Song of Solomon 1:1-3; Ephesians 5:22-33) 1 3668 [e] 1 Homois. Even so, "Baptism," Peter says, "saves us." For Christ also died once and for all for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. "The phrase in the days of Noah may well be based on the Gospel tradition and on Jesus analogy between Noahs time and the time immediately preceding the end of the age (cf. This ought to be the spring of all our confidence, even in God Himself, with His own power preserving us. It may well be that when he compares himself with his fellow-men, he has nothing to fear from the comparison. As we know, from that day to this there has never been a real recovery, but only the return of a remnant for special purposes for a season. 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. It is exactly what filled Jesus perfectly. While this is in full and evident contrast with Judaism, it needs little proof that it is precisely what gives scope for the proper display of Christianity, which could not be seen in its true light if at all till Jesus left the world. When the suffering is for Christ, he is demonstrating his loyalty to Christ and is sharing his sufferings. But this is not all; we need Christ interceding for us, as well as the privilege of being in Christ; we need to have Him active in His love before our God, and not merely a condition in which we stand. To be reviled was a pain to which as domestics they would be particularly exposed, as well as to suffer in all sorts of ways. And the high priest asked them, Acts 5:27 The captain and officers just went to collect the apostles but without any violence. 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. He led the captives from their captivity. Christ, in the spirit (1 Peter 3:18), proclaimed the gospel in the days of Noah (1 Peter 3:20) through Noah. But if a wife became a Christian while her husband did not, she was taking a step which was unprecedented and which produced the acutest problems. He said the spirits of these unbelievers are in prison now (i.e., Sheol) awaiting resurrection and judgment by God (cf. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven" ( Matthew 5:11-12 ). The Greek for for sins is either huper ( G5228) or peri ( G4012) hamartion ( G266) . 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. "For he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin." Pliny saw Lollia Paulina, wife of Caligula, wearing a dress so covered with pearls and emeralds that it had cost 450,000 British pounds. . branch of it, his prophetic office, before he appeared in human Who are the spirits who received a proclamation (1 Peter 3:19)? represents them as in a prison, so applicable to souls in a state This is not the. Grace and peace be yours in abundance. Because of it, all who trust in Christ are brought to His Father. personal ministry of Noah, and by the building of the ark, to Why he should do this; or how there should be such a separation made in hades that it could be done; or what was the nature of the message which he delivered to that portion, are questions which it is impossible for any man who bolds to the opinion that Christ went down to hell after his death to preach, to answer. Clearly, between the seal and its impression there is the closest possible correspondence. NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. But even now grace gives the believer (here believing Jews) to enter that place; we are now God's people. (2.) The case for Christianity must be presented with winsomeness and with love, and with that wise tolerance which realizes that it is not given to any man to possess the whole truth. The Christian is humble because he is constantly aware of his utter dependence on God and that of himself he can do nothing. 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. And God knew that guys have this stupid male macho image of themselves and that they've got to feel that they're strong and powerful and in control; that they're running the show. For the time that is past is sufficient to have done what the Gentiles will to do, to have lived a life of licentiousness, lust, drunkenness, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatry. Gave Him to shed His blood? But the sanctification of the Spirit laid down here is in order to the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus; and therefore unless you would destroy the grace of God, and reverse a multitude of scriptures as to justification by faith, this sanctification cannot be one's practice of day by day. It was Rendel Harris', suggestion that between kai ( G2532) and tois ( G3588) the. Many great scholars have accepted that view; but we do not think it is the view which comes naturally from Peter's words. The rest of the chapter consists of exhortations to the younger ones, and finally to all, with a prayer that "the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered a while, himself shall make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. (i) Baptism is not merely a physical cleansing; it is a spiritual cleansing of the whole heart and soul and life. "Do good to those who despitefully use you" ( Matthew 5:44 ). For it is better, if the will of God be so, that you suffer for well doing, than for evil doing ( 1 Peter 3:17 ). judgment, which is an eternal one; nor is there any salvation, or May 11, 1986. They could see how gross, dark, and dissolute these Pagan governors were; and in such circumstances one needs the distinct sense of God's will to abide in the duty of obedience. Who told you this? So there are people and events and customs in the Old Testament which are types, and which find their antitypes in the New Testament. "A saint," as someone has said, "is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God. It was ever right that love should go out towards others, whether in general kindness towards all mankind, or in special affections towards the family of God. "Baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh . Next he shows some of the privileges as well as wants of the Christian. God would bring Peters readers safely through their trials just as He had brought Noah safely through his trials into a whole new world. It thus gives point to the saying that He was "quickened in spirit," which would otherwise be left very meaningless. (a) It has a Jewish background. By which Spirit, his own Divine energy and authority. 1 Peter 3:19 New International Version 19 After being made alive,[ a] he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits Read full chapter Footnotes 1 Peter 3:19 Or but made alive in the spirit, 19 in which also 1 Peter 3:19 in all English translations 1 Peter 2 1 Peter 4 New International Version (NIV) It means that the work of Christ is infinite in its range. 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. For [it is] better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. 3:7 Likewise, you husbands, live understandingly with your wives, remembering that women are the weaker sex and assigning honour to them as fellow-heirs of the grace of life, so that there may be no barrier to your prayers. Hell is the place of the punishment of the wicked; Hades was the place where all the dead went. Antistius Vetus divorced his wife because he saw her secretly speaking to a freed woman in public. It is almost impossible for us to realize what life must have been for the wife who was brave enough to become a Christian. A cultivated Greek believed that it was the mark of an intelligent man that he was able to give and to receive a logos ( G3056) concerning his actions and belief. In two very ancient MSS. He did so to strengthen their resolve to rededicate themselves to follow Gods will wholeheartedly and confidently. We have seen that the attempt at the elimination of this passage fails. So anybody who's looking for the superior sex or anything else, you will never find it in Christianity. 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. God puts us to the proof; and, undoubtedly, if there be unbelief working, we must eat the bitter fruit of our own ways. 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. Undoubtedly there was always a secret election of saints after the fall and long before the call of Abraham and his seed; but now the choice of saints was to be made a manifest thing, a testimony before men, though of course not till glory come absolutely perfect. "All power," He said, "is given to me in heaven and in earth." 1 Peter 3 - Submission and Suffering A. Submission in the home. He was about to be a sacrifice for sin, giving Himself up spite of suffering, not only from man, but from God. The saints, then, are "kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation." Take, for instance, the duty of obedience; the value of a gracious, peaceful walk here below; the degree of confidence in God. No doubt if a person were at once to be brought into the comfort of full peace with God through the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus, this would suit the heart's sense of its own need. In the general sense of the word, salvation awaits the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. 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. Not so; for as He came out in the love of God, who none the less must by this very Christ judge every soul that lives in sin and unbelief, He would not go back to heaven until He bad by His own sacrifice completely put sin away. So then, according to Jewish legend, Enoch did go to Hades and preach doom to the fallen angels. sense, to the days of Noah, is very unaccountable; this sense Then Peter expressly mentioned the Spirit, that he might take away the notion of what may be called a real presence. too often saints going astray, comparatively seldom persevering as the rule, if we speak of their consistent fidelity and devotedness. The question was: "Do you accept the terms of this contract, and bind yourself to observe them?" Under Roman law a woman had no rights. Still others hold that He announced good news to the saved among them. I have quoted all these authorities from the most authentic and correct copies of the Vulgate, to show that from them there is no ground to believe that the text speaks of Christ's going to hell to preach the Gospel to the damned, or of his going to some feigned place where the souls of the patriarchs were detained, to whom he preached, and whom he delivered from that place and took with him to paradise, which the Romish Church holds as an article of faith. 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. I have before me one of the first, if not the very first edition of the Latin Bible; and in it the verse stands thus: In quo et hiis, qui in carcere erant, SPIRITUALITER veniens praedicavit; "by which he came spiritually, and preached to them that were in prison.". By Silvanus, the faithful brother, as I suppose, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand. I admit that what is in the Bible requires faith; and this is as it should be. 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." Such is the suited and striking preface with which our apostle commences, contrasting the portion of the believer in Christ with that of the Jew, as it stands in their own sacred books, which we as well as they acknowledge to have divine authority. This is just the difference between the Christian and the Jew. Members of His body? (iii) Third, Peter sets brotherly love. 449-50; Raymer, pp. In 1 Peter 3:18-22 he cited Jesus resurrection and ascension into glory, the "missing links" in the previous record of Jesus experiences. Wherever the saints have shown faith or unbelief, whether hindered by the world, the flesh, or the devil, whatever the particular snare that has drawn them aside, all will be made plain then. It is not here blessing them in heavenly places in Christ. But certainly when the Israelites were binding themselves to obey the law, it was as far as possible from a confession of atonement. He went and preached By the ministry of Noah, one hundred and twenty years. When a man for instance turns to God, when he has faith in Jesus, when he repents towards God, even though it may be faith but little developed or exercised, and although the repentance may be comparatively superficial (yet I am supposing now real faith and repentance through the action of the Holy Ghost), these are the tokens of the Spirit's sanctification. Getting along; you know our prayer life can be hindered by friction within the home. 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. There are three great conceptions in this passage. Second, it is improbable that the "sons of God" were angels. When a man is roused to hate his sins through God's testimony reaching him, and convicting him before God, and not in his own eyes, when a man is ashamed of all that he has been in presence of God's grace, ever so little known and understood, still where a real work goes on in the soul, sanctification of the Spirit is true there. But the men and women of Noah's generation, notwithstanding "God's patience" in delaying judgment, spurned that proclamation. In point of fact Christ is the life of the believer; and we can well understand, therefore, that the life of Christ, whether viewed in all its perfection in Him, or whether it is seen modified in ourselves, is nevertheless just the same life, in our case hindered alas! (i) He lays it down that the work of Christ was unique and never need be repeated. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. Again we have an exhortation to the elders (1 Peter 5:1-14). And preached - The word used here ( ekeruxen) is of a general character, meaning to make a proclamation of any kind, as a crier does, or to deliver a message, and does not necessarily imply that it was the gospel which was preached, nor does it determine anything in regard to the nature of the message. 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. 3:8-12 Finally, you must all be of one mind; you must have sympathy with each other and you must live in brotherly love; you must be compassionate and humble; you must not return evil for evil, nor insult for insult; on the contrary, you must return blessing; for it was to give and to inherit blessing that you were called. This accordingly gave occasion for God to exercise a new kind of choice. Never do we see salvation in its real force so affirmed apart from resurrection. Bear in mind that the one is just as truly Christian as the other. This at once gives us a true and vivid picture of what Christianity is, of signal importance for the Jews to weigh, because they always looked forward for a visible Messiah, the royal Son of David the object, no doubt, of all reverence, homage, and loyalty for all Israel. It may seem strange that Peter's advice to wives is six times as long as that to husbands. To proclaim, herald, preach. In my old MS. Bible, which contains the first translation into English ever made, the clause is the following: In whiche thing and to hem that weren closid togyder in prison, hi commynge in Spirit, prechide. It was thus that Sara obeyed Abraham calling him, "Lord." If you yield to nature, you gratify it; but if you suffer in refusing its wishes, then "he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin." transition from the times of the apostles, according to this John dragging her. pneumasin, plural) as referring to the unsaved (human spirits) of Noahs day. The mark of the Christian is that he forgives others as God has forgiven him ( Ephesians 4:32). (c) The context indicates that Christ was preaching through Noah, who was in a persecuted minority, and God saved Noah, which is similar to the situation in Peters time: Christ is now preaching the gospel through Peter and his readers (1 Peter 3:15) to a persecuted minority, and God will save them. This is the point that Justin Martyr fastened on long ago: "The Lord, the Holy God of Israel, remembered his dead, those sleeping in the earth, and came down to them to tell them the good news of salvation." It has two vivid backgrounds. 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. At first sight, perhaps, these words may be startling to some, that is, to such as think that the sense of "salvation" is weakened thereby. Whereas the previous example of Jesus stressed the way He suffered while doing good, this one emphasizes the theme of Jesus vindication, which is major in 1 Peter following the quotation of Psalms 34 in 1 Peter 3:10-12. Is this, you know, do you like this outfit? of the Old Testament are in nowise disturbed by Christianity. The, the definite article. Christian forgets his proper dignity. II. He is no longer waiting for the sprinkling of that precious blood, he is already sprinkled with it before God. 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. 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). 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." Now this ought to be a great comfort even to the feeblest of God's children, not an alarm. There we have not union with the Head, but "the heavenly calling;" and substantially the latter line of truth is that which we have in 1 Peter. 6. The Greek more precisely reads, "Now Herod had been very angry with the . sometimes signify a watch, yet more commonly a prison, and which but it would What is he talking about? In divine things it is precisely what shows the power and special character of a Christian's faith. He is righteous; He is jealous of His house; but if this be serious for His own, where shall the sinner appear? It is, therefore, worthwhile for us to take pains to make them understand that they are honoured for nothing else but only for appearing modest and self-respecting." The plain and easy sense of the words is, that Christ, by his Spirit, by which he was quickened, went in the ministry of Noah, the preacher of righteousness, and preached both by words and deeds, by the personal ministry of Noah, and by the building of the ark, to that generation who was then in being; and who being disobedient, and continuing so, a flood was brought upon them which destroyed them all; and whose spirits, or separate souls, were then in the prison of hell, so the Syriac version renders it, , "in hell", see Revelation 20:7 when the Apostle Peter wrote this epistle; so that Christ neither went into this prison, nor preached in it, nor to spirits that were then in it when he preached, but to persons alive in the days of Noah, and who being disobedient, when they died, their separate souls were put into prison, and there they were when the apostle wrote: from whence we learn, that Christ was, that he existed in his divine nature before he was incarnate, he was before Abraham, he was in the days of Noah; and that Christ also, under the Old Testament, acted the part of a Mediator, in his divine nature, and by his Spirit discharged that branch of it, his prophetic office, before he appeared in human nature; and that the Gospel was preached in those early times, as unto Abraham, so before him. Now Peter is saying, Honor her knowing that she's weaker. Thus he loves to bring out again confirmatorily the new relationship in which they stood to God. (2) The second interpretation--which is that of (practically) all the Fathers, and of Calvin, Luther (finally), Bellarmine, Bengel, and of most modern scholars--refers the passage to what our Lord did while His body was dead. The simple fact is that love of God and love of man go hand in hand; the one cannot exist without the other. The consequence is that when minds get disturbed, it may be, about their position, then all sorts of difficulties come in. . That is, the Spirit went on striving in testimony to men all that time. 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. This particular section goes back to verse thirteen of chapter two. In our case it is all through Jesus. There is a sense in which pity is in danger of becoming a lost virtue. (4) This interpretation accords with the design of the apostle in inculcating the duty of patience and forbearance in trials; in encouraging those whom he addressed to be patient in their persecutions. They had now an offer of mercy; those that accepted of it should be saved, but those who rejected Christ and the gospel should be as certainly destroyed as ever the disobedient in the times of Noah were. 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). But if you're cold and aloof; this jerk making a stupid mistake and he's probably going to take off when he has lost everything. See the analysis of the chapter. He does not advise the wife to leave her husband. One sees alas! Those who hold this view often go on to argue that, since these sinners were desperately disobedient, so much so that God sent the flood and destroyed them ( Genesis 6:12-13), we may believe that no man is outside the mercy of God. Through him we have access to God the Father ( Ephesians 2:18). 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. In writing to the Christians of Corinth, he uses the same picture of the Christians as members of one body in spite of all their differing qualities and gifts ( 1 Corinthians 12:12-31). And so we find it in fact and in Scripture. And interestingly enough, Sarah had and asserted her place, too. Now, I need not tell you, things are in a certain measure of confusion. But then, again, as long as Christ was here, it could not be exactly hope. So don't lose hope. (3.) A remnant, it is true, had been brought up from Babylon for the purpose of being tested by a new trial by the presentation of the Messiah to them; but alas! It belongs to the condition in which man is that, being fallen, and yet having a conscience of the good that alas! It is, therefore, better first of all to read it as a whole and then to study it in its various sections. Thus hope also could spring forth as it were to meet Him; as, indeed, it is the work of the Holy Ghost to exercise the faith and hope He has given. Cato the Censor, the typical ancient Roman, wrote: "If you were to catch your wife in an act of infidelity, you can kill her with impunity without a trial." The point is this--as the Jews saw it, only the priests had the right of close access to God. Having a good conscience; that, whereas they may speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good behavior in Christ ( 1 Peter 3:16 ). as some, to preach to the devils and damned spirits, that they One pound weight of the best Tyrian purple wool, strained twice through, cost 1,000 denarii, 43.50 British pounds. Those who hold this view often go on to say that, because of Christ, there is now no time spent in the shadows of Hades and the way to paradise is open as soon as this world closes on us. Now that word has changed in the usage, too. American Standard Version. What makes you different? Whose adorning [or beauty] let it not be the outward the fancy hairstyles, the wearing of gold, or the putting on of fancy clothes ( 1 Peter 3:2-3 ); I could get in big trouble at this point. If persons take the actual application as the fulfilment of the prophecies, it in fact not only nullifies the future of scripture, but destroys the beauty and point of the present; for what the apostle intimates is, that they had obtained mercy now, though none were yet sown in the earth. As time went on, there emerged the idea of stages and divisions in this shadowland. "And Enoch walked with God; and he was not; for God took him" ( Genesis 5:24). It is worth while to collect together the great New Testament passages about unity, in order to see how great a place it occupies in New Testament thought. It is into this very snare that unbelief has brought men in Christendom. So when He said, "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church" ( Ephesians 5:25 ), He knew that a woman's greatest need was that of knowing that she is loved supremely by her husband. Well, the thing is I know the woman; I know her problems. He went and preached unto the spirits in prison. And always as far as the wife, it is subjection to the husband. I am not speaking of a particular doctrine. God has raised Him from the dead and given Him glory. Both Paul and Peter are quite sure that the Christian wife must remain with the heathen husband so long as he does not send her away. There is an awakening of conscience by the Spirit through the word (for I am not speaking now of anything natural, of moral desires or emotions of the heart). Hence this anxiety of expectation was to them a kind of prison. 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. [Note: Michaels, p. What were the disciples then? Abraham's bosom, inheriting the promises, and not in a prison; Another view is that the people to whom Jesus preached were those alive after Pentecost and in bondage to Satan and sin. In the New Testament the corresponding noun prosagoge ( G4318) is three times used. And, indeed, you find this not merely in Peter but in Paul. On the day of Pentecost, Peter received an outpouring of the Holy Ghost and manifested the gift of tongues as he "began to speak with other tongues" (Acts 2:4) to diaspora Jews "out of every nation" (Acts 2:5). His traditions wrap him up in fog. how often and readily the. 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. We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ once and for all ( Hebrews 10:10). And the woman is always fishing for the affirmation of this. This is because the wife's position was far more difficult than that of the husband. (i) Peter begins by insisting on a passionate love of goodness. On the Cross God dealt with man's sin in a way which is adequate for all sin, for all men, for all time. I mean, it's getting dangerous living. Christian humility comes from two things. "Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind." To my mind, nothing is more wonderful in our blessed Lord here below than this devotedness to His Father, not merely now and again, but as the one motive that animated Him from the beginning to the end of His course here below. This is Christianity. (iii) There is the attitude that what Peter is saying is that Jesus Christ, between his death and resurrection, went to the world of the dead and preached the gospel there. Upgrade to Bible Gateway Plus to get the best value in digital Bible study. She's needing this assurance and she fishes for this assurance because she needs the security of knowing that she's loved. Then this explanation cannot be right. The merit and perfection of Christ's sacrifice were such that for him to suffer once was enough. But. You are the strong one, give her that strength. Marriage is a give-and-take proposition and it is an understanding.Now of course with Peter, interestingly enough, has quite a bit to say to the wife. And when it is working, it becomes a beautiful combination, and your lives can be enriched and your prayers effective. Their story is told in Genesis 6:1-8. There is nothing at all in the verse that warrants a web of doctrine strange to the rest of the Bible. Thirdly, it seems very strange, that Peter, speaking of the apostles, should immediately, as though forgetting himself, go back to the time of Noah. Thus the passage is sufficiently plain. (1) The spirits are understood as being now in prison, in consequence of having rejected His preaching to them while they were still on earth. Interlinear Bible. He really experienced death, and rose again. The meaning of this is that the preaching mentioned in the previous verse was directed to living men and women on the earth at the time the preaching was done, but who at the time of Peter's mentioning this were "in prison," that is, in a deceased state, under the sentence of God like the angels who are cast down and reserved unto the day of judgment and destruction of the wicked. Here too the apostle does not merely speak, nor is it ever the habit of scripture to speak, in an abstract way of election. ] 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 If a man's heart is set on earthly things, possessions, happiness, pleasure, ease and comfort, he is of all men most vulnerable. 1 Peter 4. He pleads with the quarrelling Corinthians that there should be no divisions among them and that they should be perfectly joined together in the same mind ( 1 Corinthians 1:10). It symbolizes that which has already transpired in my heart. besides, the text says not one word of the delivering of these To be like Jesus I must have it.How many times you read in the Gospel, "And Jesus looked upon them and had compassion on them." Finally [addressing now both], be of one mind, having compassion for one another, love as brethren, be pitiful ( 1 Peter 3:8 ). Then the prophecies will be fulfilled. Once again, where infant baptism is the practice, we must take these great conceptions and apply them to the time when we enter upon full membership of the Church. To this the answer is easy. You'll have a good life. The true drift is this "Nor as lording it over your possessions." At the time of this epistle, it was in due order. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. "Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations." Here, I. How important to be courteous. In face of all this Peter pleads for the graces which adorn the heart, which are precious in the sight of God. in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Epictetus, the philosopher, thinking of the narrow life to which women were condemned in the ancient world, said, "Immediately after they are fourteen, women are called 'ladies' by men. 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. (Although it involves the use of Greek some readers may be, interested to see how Rendel Harris arrived at this famous, emendation. It is no longer relationship with and recognition of a God that rules and governs. If it speaks of the duty of children, it speaks also of the obligations of parents (compare Ephesians 6:1-9; Colossians 3:20-25; Colossians 4:1). to which. Rather is it to be a unity in which powerful tensions are held together by an over-mastering loyalty, and strong antipathies of race and colour, temperament and taste, social position and economic interest, are overcome in common worship and common obedience. But his attitude was such that, you know, I --I just sort of chuckled to myself and said, Well, why not have peace, you know.So don't render "railing for railing". "If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth." Christianity came into a world of luxury and decadence combined. It is when we are at one with each other that we are at one with him. 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." And this by Christ's work is made good for us, because the very one that became responsible for our sins on the cross is in glory now. ", Carefully observe that Peter does not say that Christ went to prison and preached to the spirits there. No debates have been so acrimonious as theological debates; no differences have caused such bitterness as religious differences. It may well be that we ought to think of this as a picture painted in terms of poetry rather than a doctrine stated in terms of theology. Compare also Jesus implication that angels do not procreate in Matthew 22:30. 15 ! . Sir John Seeley said, "No heart is pure that is not passionate; no virtue safe which is not enthusiastic." Seminar. So Ephesians 2:17, And came and preached peace, etc. 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. and continuing so, a flood was brought upon them which destroyed It will be observed here that there are two motives to holiness: the first is that He has called us; the next, that we call Him, and this by the sweet and near title of Father. Jesus came to open the prison to those that are bound, or to open up Hades to those people who were bound there, who died before Jesus died for our sins. ", 1 Peter 2:1-25. There speaks the prophetic voice to our modern condition. Greet ye one another with a kiss of love. Women cannot hold public offices, or priesthoods, or gain triumphs; they have no public occupations. How could one hope for One who was here, however different His estate from what was longed for and expected? 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. They are not yet finished; and they must be punctually fulfilled. though hell may be meant by the prison, yet the text does not say Now because I believe in Jesus Christ, I want to obey Him and thus I am baptized as a sign of what has transpired already within my heart. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins ( 1 Peter 3:18 ). 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They think that there is something wrong with the text as it stands, that some scribe has perhaps copied it wrongly; and they, therefore, suggest that some word should be changed or added. He went and preached Commentators with a theory to uphold make a big thing out of the went," encountering innumerable difficulties when they suppose that he went "while dead and buried"! One was a place of torment, the other was a place of comfort. 1 Peter 3 Wives 1 In the same way, you wives must accept the authority of your husbands. If we saw a company of men in prison who had seen better days - a multitude now drunken, and debased, and poor, and riotous - it would not be improper to say that the prospect of wealth and honor was once held out to this ragged and wretched multitude. As we are told here, "Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing," no wonder he adds, "ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory." It is not a question of merely having license. If it were your heritage, you would have certain rights; but the truth is that he who stands in the position of an elder has no small responsibility. The flesh never counts on God for good. Therefore, "If Christ is said by Paul to go and do, what he did by his apostles, Christ may with equal propriety be said by Peter to go and do what he did by Noah."[33]. But the Christian's standard of comparison is Christ, and, compared with his sinless perfection, he is ever in default. They, like the fallen angels, were then "spirits in prison." Think of the power that brought it into existence. We do not hear now of the gift of the Spirit. 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. Those who died in faith went to the place of comfort and were comforted by father Abraham. 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. Christ has died and triumphed over death, and therefore believers are, through him, cleansed from sin, made alive and brought back to God (20-22). The obvious sense is, that Peter supposed there were spirits in prison at the time when he wrote, and that to those same spirits the Son of God had at some time preached, or had made some proclamation respecting the will of God. Peter, as it were, gathers together the great qualities of the Christian life. to save by translating into etc. That only creates, you know, that only builds and let's you read, you know --there's so many nuts on the highway today. This will not be the case when the Jews shall be brought back to the land. Besides that, not only is there holiness in drawing near to God, but royal dignity stamped upon the believer. Others believe it happened during His ascension to heaven. Not rendering evil for evil or railing for railing but contrariwise blessing knowing that ye are thereunto __ called that ye should inherit a blessing. "Evil for evil.". The fault is in denying the other and yet more fundamental sense of sanctification here shown by Peter in its right relation to obedience. And it was by this Spirit that Noah became a preacher of righteousness, and condemned that ungodly world, Hebrews 11:7, who would not believe till wrath-Divine punishment, came upon them to the uttermost. (ii) He lays it down that that sacrifice was for sin. He must be considerate and sensitive to the feelings of his wife. King James Version (KJV) Public Domain. Beautiful Christian trait: courtesy. 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. I suppose there was a danger of these Christian Jews being somewhat turbulent. But if it is not union with Christ, if not our full place in Him before God, there is a clear statement of our hope of heaven. 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 A second group believes Jesus preached to Noahs sinful generation while Noah was living on the earth. But it did not matter whether one gave silver or gold, it was all corruptible; and to what did it come at last? The purposes of God was thwarted by sinful man.So in order that man might have fellowship with God, these purposes of God restored, Jesus suffered once for our sins, "the just for the unjust", that He might be able to bring you to God. We may put it this way. International Standard Version. Christ died once and for all for sins. Tools 1Pe 3:21 The real meaning may make the difficulty appear to be greater for a moment (as, I suppose, the truth often, if not always, does); but when received and understood, what has such strength of appeal to the conscience? There was the best and weightiest reason for this, because the nature thus produced in them is this holy nature that comes by grace from God Himself. Now there need be no hesitation in declaring that the phrase does not mean God's heritage at all, but another idea wholly different. Her answer was: "Because he never hurts me." sin, and had been for long time past foolish and disobedient, 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). (2)THE MARKS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE ( 1 Peter 3:8-12 continued). And he talked of the difficulty of the converting of a Moslem because for a Moslem, it is a capital offense to convert to Christianity. There are few passages where the value of a lovely Christian life is so vividly stressed. It was inevitable that one marriage partner might be won for Christ, while the other remained untouched by the appeal of the gospel; and such a situation inevitably had difficulties. Thus, it would be proper to say that Whitefield came to America, and preached to the souls in perdition; or to go among the graves of the first settlers of New Haven, and say, Davenport came from England to preach to the dead men around us.. 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. 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. It is not a description of all that died in unbelief, but of a generation favoured with a special testimony and smitten by a particular stroke of judgment. Slippers were encrusted with them; Nero even had a room whose walls were covered with them. 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. The principle, however, is sound; and may we heed it in conscience, looking to the Lord's grace in our weakness. Common has been the opinion that Christs descent into hell is here referred to; but the words mean no such thing; for there is no mention made of the soul of Christ, but only that he went by the Spirit: and these are very different things, that Christs soul went, and that Christ preached by the power of the Spirit. It is only a theologian who finds a difficulty. In every sphere of ancient civilization, women had no rights at all. and patriarchs, under the former dispensation: others think the "To salvation" you will not find in your common Bibles, but it is none the less true for all that. In regard to this doctrine there have always been differing attitudes amongst thinkers. 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. The Romanists say that it was while in prison; that Christ, after he was put to death in the body, was still kept alive in his spirit, and went and proclaimed his gospel to those who were in prison.

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