1 peter 3:19 greek

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It is the submission not of fear but of perfect love. But if you suffer for well doing, then that is a better thing. There's where you have to get the right perspective. The conditions of our own age tend to blunt the edge of the mind to sensitiveness in pity. This, in fact, is a truth which is ingrained into the New Testament. (b) If we look at Moffatt's translation, we find something quite different. It was an imprecation of death on themselves from God if they violated His commandments. I can't believe that; you're saved by believing in Jesus Christ. 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. That we receive the peace we need as Christians is mainly connected, not with His coming out from God, but with His going back to God; as it is said here, "Who by him do believe in God that" what? 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. Even if you do have to suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. Now I had an interesting experience several years ago. To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy and paste this URL into your RSS reader. 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. (ii) He must be chivalrous. The first impulse of a converted man is to do the will of God. 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. 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He feels exceedingly wounded because, as he will tell you very often, "Why, it is one of the best of my people. And there were traffic coming on my left where I couldn't get around him, so I just laid on my horn. Beautiful Christian trait: courtesy. , , , 3:1 Greek NT: Nestle 1904, 3:1 Greek NT: Westcott and Hort 1881, 3:1 Greek NT: Westcott and Hort / [NA27 and UBS4 variants], 3:1 Greek NT: RP Byzantine Majority Text 2005, 3:1 Greek NT: Greek Orthodox Church, 3:1 Greek NT: Tischendorf 8th Edition, 3:1 Greek NT: Scrivener's Textus Receptus 1894, 3:1 Greek NT: Stephanus Textus Receptus 1550. 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. 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. We share together equally in the things of the Lord. It would be well if all were clearly to understand what they are doing when they take upon themselves membership of the Church. (i) It must be reasonable. Why would I want to hit myself with a Face Flask? Do men wonder at one's abstaining? And then he takes up what is distinctly spiritual power, which should be used not in charity only but with conscience before God, and for His glory through our Lord Jesus. Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience. No such words are used, nor is this what he means. Some think the whole passage applies to the preaching of the Gospel to the Gentiles; but the interpretation given above appears to me, after the fullest consideration, to be the most consistent and rational, as I have already remarked. It is a mistake to construe it of one that knows not what took place in the lower parts of the earth. sub-view 2: proclaiming to them that he had triumphed over them and their condemnation was final. It is beyond cavil that the many perished then, and still fewer were saved than the Christian Jews at that time. Indeed such difficulties serve to show where people are. It is very far from identifying the state and testimony of the prophets with ours now under grace and a present Spirit. WebI Peter 3:19 therefore does not refer to the devils fall but to another rebellion of angels that occurred in the days of Noah and before the Flood. And this is exceedingly interesting, because if the prophet be compared, it will be seen to illustrate what has been remarked before the difference between the present accomplishment made good in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, and the future fulfilment of the prophecies. This gives room for all the practical working of Christianity. 851-52; Selwyn, p. 199; John S. Feinberg, "1 Peter 3:18-20, Ancient Mythology, and the Intermediate State," Westminster Theological Journal 48:2 (Fall 1986):303-36; and Wayne Grudem, "Christ Preaching through Noah: 1 Peter 3:19-20 in the Light of Dominant Themes in Jewish Literature," Trinity Journal 7NS:2 (Fall 1986):3-31.] They are waiting there for the day of judgment. Now, I need not tell you, things are in a certain measure of confusion. Hippolytus (175-235) also wrote of Christ's descent into Hades: For this reason the warders of Hades trembled when they saw Him, and the gates of brass and the bolts of iron were broken. We are thrown on mercy, as we ought to be; we look up in dependence on One who is incontestably above us, and withal infinitely near to us. And really, that's what the kid did; Bless you, peace, brother, shalom. Peace be with you all in Christ Jesus.". 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. 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. 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). In the Temple the layman might come so far; he could pass through the Court of the Gentiles, the Court of the Women, the Court of the Israelites--but there he must stop. There he says, "Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme; or to governors, as to them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and praise to them that do well.". Such as communion is condemning to the person who doesn't believe. (b) It is argued that Jesus preached to the fallen angels, and preached, not salvation, but final and awful doom. Nor is it only that He comes down from God, but He goes up to God. Finally, lets look at Isaiah who many years before prophesied of this exact occurrence in which Peter and others were bringing about through the preaching of the Gospel to the Gentile world. It may well be that when he compares himself with his fellow-men, he has nothing to fear from the comparison. The passage in 1 Peter 3 definitely seems to be referring back to the familiar story about the watchers, the flood, and Enoch. The identity of the "spirits in prison" is problematic. So guilty man cannot but quake, still by scepticism he may reason himself out of his fears, or he can find a religion that soothes and destroys his conscience. And more people are brought to Christ by the observing of the Christian life as you live it, than are converted through just someone laying the four spiritual laws on them.We were talking with a missionary who is in the Philippines and has a ministry basically to the Moslems. NICZSB. The blessed end or design of our Lord's sufferings was to bring us to God, to reconcile us to God, to give us access to the Father, to render us and our services acceptable, and to bring us to eternal glory, Ephesians 2:13; Ephesians 2:18; Ephesians 3:12; Hebrews 10:21; Hebrews 10:22. quoted above, as closid togyder proves. 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. God set them apart unto Himself by the effectual working of the Holy Ghost,. That this version of the story makes explicit appearances in the related letters of Jude and 2 Peter seems to corroborate that the hypothesis has some merit. These Christian Jews were not sown in the earth. sub-view 3 (fallen Angels - not people): proclaimed triumph over the fallen angels (the Nephilim, i.e. Alas! 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. Somerset Maugham's mother was a very beautiful woman with the world at her feet but his father was unhandsome. Even in the Jewish synagogue they had no share in the service, and in the orthodox synagogue still have none. 135 ff. 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 they were here directed to was to "feed the flock of God." If you say that practical holiness precedes the being brought under the blood of Jesus, I ask, How is one to become holy? And when it is working, it becomes a beautiful combination, and your lives can be enriched and your prayers effective. Honey, do you love me? That is a magnificent picture. WebSee also 1 Peter 3:19 in other biblical comments: A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger. And again, it is interesting to me because it shows us Peter's good working knowledge of the Scriptures. So I do not believe in what is called baptismal regeneration. He was about to be a sacrifice for sin, giving Himself up spite of suffering, not only from man, but from God. 181-83.] you are the daughters of Sarah, as long as you do well, and are not afraid with any amazement ( 1 Peter 3:6 ). 3:13-15a Who will hurt you, if you are ardent lovers of goodness? 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. Though the judicious Calmet holds with his Church this opinion, yet he cannot consider the text of St. Peter as a proof of it. Another MS., written about A. D. 1370, is the same as the printed copy. Again we have an exhortation to the elders (1 Peter 5:1-14). In this I, for one, do not believe. We might put it that the Old Testament event symbolically represents and foreshadows the New Testament event. ( Psalms 6:5). For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. Shall we turn now to First Peter chapter three as Peter addresses himself to the wives? 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. And she's always fishing for "Honey, you're beautiful. Peter treats chiefly of the former, Paul of both, but chiefly of the latter. That very system of reason that makes so much of the will of man, and is not a little proud of it, would deprive God Himself of a will, and under penalty of man's accusation of injustice forbids its exercise according to His own pleasure. But here the apostle speaks of none of these things, but only of the Spirit separating the saints to obey as Jesus obeyed, and to be sprinkled with His blood. Men may be wooed into the Christian faith when they cannot be bullied into it. It was not a question of what He was to gain or what He was to avoid; but as it is written, "Lo, I come, to do thy will, O God." When the suffering is part of the human situation, it still cannot despoil him of the most precious things in life. Thence, we see, they did speak of these very things. (1 Enoch 911), 1 Enoch 12.4, 13.1 And when he ascended, he led the captives from their captivity" ( Ephesians 4:8-9 ). Therefore be would have them know that, as to the novelty with which they reproach Christianity, it was altogether a mistake; for the Lamb without blemish and without spot, though only lately slain, was foreordained before the foundation of the world. Hairbands, pins and combs were made of ivory, and boxwood, and tortoiseshell; and sometimes of gold, studded with gems. But against this view there are plain objections drawn from the language of Peter himself: (1) As we have seen, the fair interpretation of the passage quickened by the Spirit, is not that he was kept alive as to his human soul, but that he, after being dead, was made alive by his own divine energy. It is a great mistake to suppose that the blood there is used as a sign of the putting away of sin. The Psalmist wrote: "In death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who can give thee praise?" In response, God sends the archangel Sariel to inform Noah that he must build an ark, Raphael is sent to imprison Azazel the leader of the watchers, Gabriel is sent to destroy the watchers' giant offspring, and Michael is sent to pronounce judgment over the other watchers. How is it that He has been pleased thus to call us?

3. "I'm running the show and I don't need you and I don't need anybody else. The meaning is that Jesus lived in a human body and was under all the limitations of time and space in the days of his flesh; and died with that body broken and bleeding upon the Cross. He went and preached By the ministry of Noah, one hundred and twenty years. Because they were dead and disembodied when the apostle speaks of them, therefore he properly calls them spirits now in prison; not that they were in prison when Christ preached to them, as the vulgar Latin translation and the popish expositors pretend. 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. "Baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh . What's the difference between demons and devils? The Jew, as such, was bound to obey the law. The less secure she feels, the more she challenges your decision. 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. There we have not merely the blessed Saviour who in unspeakable love comes down and attracts the heart, and searches the conscience, but He settles all for us with God by redemption. 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. Here we have the first great primary fact, that the Christian Jew does not belong any more to the elect nation; but is taken out of this his former position, and is elect after a wholly new sort. Those addressed from among the Jews were among the chosen ones, "elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father.". True growth in practice confessedly is after justification; sanctification in 1 Peter 1:2 is before justification. So that when they bite into the sandwich, they get the word and they pull it out of their mouth and they read, God loves you, you know. But even now grace gives the believer (here believing Jews) to enter that place; we are now God's people. There is no difficulty that I see about it. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, in which also Enoch went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight people, were saved through water. It was just before that judgment fell on them, and this because they despised the testimony of Christ through Noah. What a vast change must have passed over Christendom, seeing that now a man is chiefly thought a minister because he speaks! Just really railing on me. 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. 6. I haven't downvoted, but this answer relies on these different texts (1 Peter, 1 Thessalonians, Genesis, Hebrews, Matthew) using the same definitions for the relevant words. Cato the Censor insisted on simplicity; Lucius Valerius answered: "Why should men grudge women their ornaments and their dress? There must be in her life a lovely chastity and fidelity founded on love. If they despised it, they none the less suffered the consequences. They were those who were sometimes disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah. No others are specified; and if it should be maintained that this means that he went down to hell (Hades), or to Sheol, and preached to those who are confined there, it could be inferred from this passage only that he preached to that portion of the lost spirits confined there which belonged to the particular generation in which Noah lived. She must live in the conviction that the whole world is the Temple of God and that all life is lived in the presence of Christ. The saints are chosen through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience. I've highlighted a set of key elements of 1 Peter 3.1920 from the NA28 Greek text: , , , . Matthew 28:18 Obedience is always right, but not to man when he would force the dishonour of God. The speaker should be God's mouthpiece for making His mind known there and then. But then, to what are they sanctified of the Holy Ghost thus? 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. And I was greeting couple of young men first time they were here, and they were telling me how much they enjoyed the service. Never do we see salvation in its real force so affirmed apart from resurrection. And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee? And so in the challenging of the authority, they then feel they have to assert their manhood. This doctrine of the descent into Hades, as we must now call it, is based on two phrases in our present passage. Diamonds, emeralds, topazes, opals and the sardonyx were favourite stones. (2)THE MARKS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE ( 1 Peter 3:8-12 continued). There is the suffering in which we are involved because of our humanity. Web3 Submission and Suffering A. Submission in the home. He then says, that Christ did not rise only for himself, but that he made known to others the same power of his Spirit, so that it penetrated to the dead. As it stands this doctrine is stated in categories which are outworn.

It is the instinct of that new nature, of life in the believer, who, being born of God, has this necessary feeling of the new nature, the desire to do the will of God. "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going" ( Ecclesiastes 9:10). 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. 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. RSV 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. Purple was the favourite colour for clothes. In the world of the Greeks and the Romans it is interesting to collect the references to personal adornments. (2) The Descent Into Hell ( 1 Peter 3:18 b-20;4:6 Continued).

Then Peter expressly mentioned the Spirit, that he might take away the notion of what may be called a real presence. But this poor young kid didn't know what happened, you know. There may be exceptions, but as a rule, the one who is eager for the right is protected from harm by his very goodness. Just so, Jesus Christ was speaking through Peters readers to their unbelieving persecutors as they bore witness for Him in a hostile world. Its effect must be on a man's very soul and on his whole life. (v) When we go beyond these two verses, further into the passage, we can add two more great truths to Peter's view of the work of Christ. It is only a theologian who finds a difficulty. As time went on, there emerged the idea of stages and divisions in this shadowland. To proclaim, herald, preach. This conjecture takes two forms, either emending as by suggesting the restoration of a single , which was misheard or misread with the following in , or as by suggesting Enoch's name was dropped entirely. Still others hold that He announced good news to the saved among them. 1 Peter 3:1 In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, ( NASB: Lockman) But, he said, in order to convert a Moslem, they must see Christianity in action in your life. Jesus preached to them through the apostles. I can understand them, but do not in the least agree with them. To answer that question, one must understand the triparte being that man is:(1 Thess. Then this explanation cannot be right. The focus is on Christ, and it is incorrect to imply that the scripture here is talking about anyone else. In this passage we can see how Peter was soaked in the Old Testament; there are two Old Testament foundations for it. By clicking Post Your Answer, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and cookie policy. Web1 Peter 3, Alford's Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary, One of over 125 Bible commentaries freely available, this commentary, originally published in four parts, is a The times of the Gentiles are still in course of accomplishment. 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. WebKing James Bible. Believers today, like Noah of old, are called to testify to the hope of the gospel "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. In short, we find here too a guard which shows the meaning more clearly. And this is a point that Peter presses on them, a startling thought for a Jew, yet they had only to reflect in order to know how true it is: "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father." WebPeter does not tell the wife to preach or to argue. Next we have the trial that the saints were passing through alluded to, and the call to suffer not for righteousness merely but for Christ's sake. this related answer), and appears to combine the ideas present in 1 Peter and Jude: First Enoch, along with a few other texts from the Second Temple period, interpreted the 'sons of God' from Genesis 6.14 as angels, and expanded on the account. proclaimed to the spirits in prison This short phrase raises several difficult issues for the interpreter: 1) the identity of the spirits in prison (v. 19), 2) the reasons for their imprisonment, 3) the location of the prison where Christ went to preach, 4) the content of Christs proclamation, 5) the relationship of preaching to the spirits (v. 19) with preaching to those who are dead (4:6), 6) and the possible allusions to biblical (Gen 69; Jude) and 7) extrabiblical traditions (such as the Jewish work called 1 Enoch), [extrabiblical A catch-all term to refer to ancient literary and archaeological evidence that is not part of the Bible, but might provide evidence related to the Bible, its world, and biblical people. But then He may do more and display Himself to the world. 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? 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. 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. 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. (it isn't the washing away of the filth of the flesh, but it is the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ ( 1 Peter 3:21 ): So the true baptism is a matter of my heart.Now I do believe that every one who believes in Jesus Christ should be baptized in water. 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." It is not here blessing them in heavenly places in Christ.
It is very evident when a man is justified, he is under the efficacy of the blood of Christ. If Enoch is the person who makes the proclamation to the spirits, then the transition from 3:18 to 3:19 is abrupt in the extreme. and how is it that we can call Him Father? Hence there is no reason to fear that it will not flow to us. We are heirs together of the grace of life.". In this passage Peter has three great things to say about baptism. does struggle to have its own way. At the time of this epistle, it was in due order. 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). This is not by any means the only meaning of blood, even where it was sacrificially employed. The word is a somewhat difficult one; but I believe the force is that it is what conscience wants and asks for from God. (2.) Discuss in the comments below. *In fact but one uncial (Cod. Just as the blood sprinkled was from the animals killed in view of the old covenant, so they shrank not from that dread and extreme exaction if they failed to obey the will of God. His coming ( ) is that which effects the rapture and reception of the saints to Himself; and His appearing is that which subsequently displays them with Himself before the world, and therefore expresses but a part of His presence, being the special (not the generic) term. 1 Peter 3.18-20, NRSV But then they are "his congregation;" they think so, and the godly man really believes it. "But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. Clearly nothing less than acceptance in righteousness before God; and this is precisely the position that baptism does set forth. 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. And big boys don't cry; that is, big boys aren't emotional. There can be nothing without this: impossible to have any holy and permanent blessing for the soul without it; nevertheless this is not what is said. 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. She must be reverent. Divisions, whether disagreements between individual members or the existence of factions and parties and--how much more!--our present-day denominations, constitute a calling in question of the Gospel itself and a sign that those who are involved are carnal.