And we are all one, heirs together of the grace of God. Such was the ordering of matters under God's hand for both. This is precisely what those who contend against the truth of election always feel most: they will allow a sort of body in a general way to be elect, and then that the individuals who compose that body must be brought in, as it were, conditionally, according to their good conduct. She must be reverent. The unbelievers who heard Christs preaching did not obey in the days of Noah (1 Peter 3:20) and are now suffering judgment (they are spirits in prison, v. 19). "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." Nor do I believe that this day is far off. Others feel He announced condemnation to the unbelievers. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away; but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. 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. 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. The technical word for that question and answer clause is eperotema ( G1906) in Greek, stipulatio in Latin. He went - To wit, in the days of Noah. On reflection it will be evident that there is no instance so suitable as this for the argument in hand so few saved and so many perishing. It is a quotation from Hosea 2:1-23. There we have the gift, and this given according to the man's ability before he was converted. 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). All through the New Testament rings this plea for Christian unity. The Jews were all familiar with a ransom price that used to be paid in silver. 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." The Zealots were the fanatical patriots, who were pledged to liberate their native land by every possible means. We have already noted the woman's total lack of rights then and quoted Cato's statement of the rights of the husband.

(4.) He had quoted the law in 1 Peter 1:1-25, the prophets in1 Peter 2:1-25; 1 Peter 2:1-25, and now the psalms in 1 Peter 3:1-22. To him be the glory and the might for the ages of the ages. They are scattered over the earth, and can find no rest for their souls, any more than their feet. 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. It is the Holy Ghost no doubt producing it. (iii) He must remember that the woman has equal spiritual rights.

When he refers to Him as a "lamb without blemish and without spot," he evidently points to their types, yea, to Christ before the types, because we had that from the very beginning in the first recorded sacrifice, long before there was a Jew and still more before the law. We must always distinguish the ability of the man from the spiritual gift which the Lord gives; and, besides both, there is also the right use of the gift. The Old Testament event or person is like the seal; the New Testament event or person is like the impression; the two answer to each other. And the answer, before witnesses was: "Yes." And then he asks, "And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? And in the act of being baptized the man answered: "Yes.". Not my wife, I'm not thinking about her. I do not think it requires much argument to show whether under the gospel the Jews or the world are in such a condition as the prophet describes, or whether there, is anything in progress that is intended or calculated to bring about such a result. 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. They speak what is somewhat more probable, who say, that the redemption obtained by Christ availed the dead, who in the time of Noah were long unbelieving, but repented a short time before they were drowned by the deluge. Christian humility comes from two things. We should use similar language now. For Christ also died once and for all for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. If they despised it, they none the less suffered the consequences. Be sure to take our. Take Psalms 22:1-31 or Isaiah 53:1-12, where we have the sufferings which belonged to Christ, and the glories after these. 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. 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. For it was thus in days of old the holy women, who placed their hopes in God, adorned themselves in submission to their husbands. 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. There is another possibility, namely, that the whole antediluvian world to whom the preaching was directed were said by Peter in this passage to have been "in prison" at the time of the preaching of Noah. For three days and nights, as we all know, he neither ate nor drank. "Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul." God had done this for Noah even though he and his family were a small minority in their day. She must be pure. And you can get a horrible cycle going here as it works against the marriage to destroy it. 1:7). This will not be the case when the Jews shall be brought back to the land. 19 After being made alive,[ a] he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits 20 to those who were disobedient long ago when

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. 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? It is very evident when a man is justified, he is under the efficacy of the blood of Christ. 3:19) refering to? 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 ). There are few passages where the value of a lovely Christian life is so vividly stressed. If it speaks of the duties of slaves, it speaks also of the obligations of masters. So how we live is extremely important, just as important as what we say. WebAs Noahs family was saved through water, so Christians are saved through the waters of baptism (1 Pt 3:1922). Here in Christianity emerged the revolutionary principle that women had equal spiritual rights and with that the relationship between the sexes was changed. They consider that, because God is unchangeable, He has not a will of His own. Isaiah writes: "For Sheol cannot thank thee, death cannot praise thee; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for thy faithfulness" ( Isaiah 38:18). He was put to death in the flesh, but he was raised to life in the Spirit, in which also he went and preached to the spirits who are in prison, the spirits who were once upon a time disobedient in the time when the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being built, in which some few--that is, eight souls--were brought in safety through the water. He that knew no sin suffered instead of those that knew no righteousness. By which Spirit, his own Divine energy and authority. What were the disciples then? We 'live' in a body-our earthly tabernacle, we manifest our life through our soul, our 'pneuma' is the life of God(Gen. 2:7): "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.". 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. This is, indeed, a more tolerable sense than the former; but it will be difficult to show, that men, in the present state of life, are called "spirits", which seems to be a word that relates to the souls of men, in a separate state from their bodies; and especially that carnal and unconverted men are ever so called; and besides, the apostle is speaking of such who were disobedient in the times of Noah; and therefore not of the Gentiles, in the times of the apostles: add to which, that the transition from the times of the apostles, according to this sense, to the days of Noah, is very unaccountable; this sense does not agree with the connection of the words: others are of opinion, that this is meant of the souls of the Old Testament saints, who were , "in a watch", as they think the phrase may be rendered, instead of "in prison": and said to be in such a situation, because they were intent upon the hope of promised salvation, and were looking out for the Messiah, and anxiously desiring his coming, and which he, by some gracious manifestation, made known unto them: but though the word may sometimes signify a watch, yet more commonly a prison, and which sense best suits here; nor is that anxiety and uneasiness, which represents them as in a prison, so applicable to souls in a state of happiness; nor such a gracious manifestation so properly called preaching; and besides, not believers, but unbelievers, disobedient ones, are here spoken of; and though it is only said they were sometimes so, yet to what purpose should this former character be once mentioned of souls now in glory? 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. But there is also the suffering in which we may be involved because of our Christianity. 1 Peter 3:22 If Jesus is God, wouldn't the angels be subject unto him already? He went, not by a local motion, but by special operation, as God is frequently said to move, Genesis 11:5; Hosea 5:15; Micah 1:3. And it becomes a beautiful symbol.But if it has not happened in my heart, it cannot happen by the ritual. In the patristic interpretation, those spirits in Hades were those of the Old Testament times who had died. Here we have basically the same picture. ( Psalms 6:5). In Greek this had a specialized meaning. He who loves life (present and eternal), and desires to continue to do so, not involving himself in troubles which will make this life a burden, and cause him to forfeit eternal life. Did not keep their first [dwelling], but abandoned their own home ( ), Are kept in eternal chains under darkness ( ), Delivered to chains of gloomy darkness in Tartarus ( ). 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. Submit yourself to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to king as supreme; governors, unto them sent toward the punishment of evildoers, so is the will of God, that in well doing you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men ( 1 Peter 2:13-15 ): So the idea of submitting to one another in love. The meaning is, that the same Spirit which was efficacious in restoring him to life, after he was put to death, was that by which he preached to the spirits in prison. 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.

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There were as many ways of dressing the hair as there were bees in Hybca. (I am happy to be corrected on either point). In other words, if we think of firmness, as well as the sense of belonging to heaven, a bright triumphant consciousness of glory, surely we must enter into and enjoy the precious truth of our union with Christ. One cannot reconcile Heb. And he, speaking, said; that is, he said. Septuagint translations taken from Brenton. Whatever the form, God never gives up His righteous government, though there is His grace also. The example of Christ is proposed as an argument for patience under sufferings, the strength of which will be discerned if we consider the several points contained in the words; observe therefore, 1. Christian forgets his proper dignity. Before trying to escape the island, he warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, nor too close to the sea, but to follow his path of flight.

Whose adorning let it not be that outward [adorning] of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, [even the ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. Web10. Moreover, the strange notion of those who think that unbelievers as to the coming of Christ, were after his death freed from their sin, needs no long refutation; for it is an indubitable doctrine of Scripture, that we obtain not salvation in Christ except by faith; then there is no hope left for those who continue to death unbelieving. No Christian should think or talk about a right of ministry; for although liberty of ministry may be legitimate enough in itself, still I think it is a phrase apt to be misunderstood. It means that no man who ever lived is outside the grace of God. 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. But even on this word there are several various readings; some of the Greek MSS. This was known in Israel, but it could in no wise draw out the affections in the same way as calling Him Father. 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. This is the reading also in the Complutensian Polyglot. Again, when Peter is talking about the banishing of fear, he is thinking of Isaiah 8:13, "But the Lord of hosts, him you shall regard as holy; let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.".

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. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your The Jewish conception of the world after death was of this grey world of shadows and forgetfulness, in which men were separated from life and light and God. Proved unbelief will be certainly to the praise of none, but where feeble faltering faith has been put in evidence by the trial, while surely forgiven in the grace of God, nevertheless the failure cannot but be judged as such. (ii) He must be chivalrous. 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. Next he proceeds to bring in what had to do with others. Nor is there any reason to fear that silence in such a case would inflict a real loss on the church of God. 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. If he, though perfectly just, why should not we, who are all criminals? No argument, therefore, can be derived from this language to prove that Christ went and personally preached to those who were confined in hades or in prison. 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. 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. 7. "The just for the unjust,". For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The identity of the "spirits in prison" is problematic. What had Christ not gone through in the same path? And he, it was dangerous moving, I mean, he shouldn't have pulled out in front of me, but he did and the thing died. Qui facit per alium, facit per se. God really proclaims a message to mankind when he does it by the instrumentality of the prophets, or apostles, or other ministers of religion; and all that is necessarily implied in this language would be met by the supposition that Christ delivered a message to the antediluvian race by the agency of Noah. 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. Well, the thing is I know the woman; I know her problems. - 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. They watch. But there is more than this: it was no longer a question of ordinances visibly separating those subject to them from the rest of the world. In His own presence. Since He came and showed the perfect pattern, it was less than ever the time to sanction disobedience; it was more than ever unbecoming to shirk the path of suffering. You know you get out and rail at someone, this guy's going to pull a gun at you. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Generally speaking, those who follow a path of righteousness are not harmed. ( Psalms 88:10-12). "The opinion which states that Jesus Christ descended into hell, to announce his coming to the ancient patriarchs, and to deliver them from that species of prison, where they had so long waited for him, is incontrovertible; and we (the Catholics) consider it as an article of our faith: but we may doubt whether this be the meaning of St. Peter in this place.". So long as the self is the most important thing in the world, there can be no such thing as sympathy; sympathy depends on the willingness to forget self and to identify oneself with the pains and sorrows of others. Overcome by giddiness while flying, Icarus disobeyed his father and soared into the sky. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

This gospel should bring together all people regardless of ethnicity and at that time of Peters writing it was still a radical idea to think that Gentiles were worthy of hearing or could even hear the good news. This I deny altogether. Of course it was Christ, which, after all, was far more important in one sense than the work He wrought for bringing us to God. 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.

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