Here again we have a scripture of the Old Testament applied; and this has often been, and still is to this day, exceedingly misunderstood; as if the persons here spoken of must be Gentiles because they are called the strangers of the dispersion. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. And I was really upset. As it stands this doctrine is stated in categories which are outworn. But if you suffer for well doing, then that is a better thing. In the Roman moral code all the obligation was on the wife and all the privilege with the husband. But how can we on this? Who told you this? It is, however, too evident that there is nothing like incredulity for swallowing anything that panders to the first man, and leaving out the glory of the Second. They will have everything at their command, and worthily use all for God. and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you for the reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and reverence ( 1 Peter 3:15 ): So live the kind of a life that is an example that will provoke people to question you. Whilst the Lord was here, it is ignorance and error to call such a state of things, however blessed and needed, Christianity. And these are the things that convince the Moslem of the truth of Christianity.So Paul is declaring that our lifestyle is all-important. C. E. B. Cranfield writes so finely of this that we cannot do other than quote his whole comment in full, lengthy though it is: "The New Testament never treats this agreeing in Christ as an unnecessary though highly desirable spiritual luxury, but as something essential to the true being of the Church. It may seem strange that Peter's advice to wives is six times as long as that to husbands. It may well be that when he compares himself with his fellow-men, he has nothing to fear from the comparison. Yet the Christian life has a certain blessedness which runs through it all. 2 Peter 2:4) and that they were disobedient in the days of Noah (1 Peter 3:20). But it is so easy to rail back. No debates have been so acrimonious as theological debates; no differences have caused such bitterness as religious differences. It is not so much that he actually quotes them, as that he could not have written the passage at all unless the Old Testament had been in his mind. The previous verse ended the narrative concerning Peter and it continued that of Herod. They were redeemed then with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. But what will not men believe, provided it be not in the Bible? I therefore have no doubt but Peter speaks generally, that the manifestation of Christs grace was made to godly spirits, and that they were thus endued with the vital power of the Spirit. All rights reserved worldwide. Have you ever imagined how much power that must be? They are now "spirits" since they died long ago and their bodies have not yet experienced resurrection. With Jesus victory over death, their condemnation was sealed. 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). After this episode which has to do with men here, not in the unseen world, he returns to the relative duties of Christians, and exhorts them to watchfulness with sobriety, to fervent love, and also to "use hospitality one to another without grudging." They were prepared to take their lives in their hands, to sacrifice ease and comfort, home and loved ones, in their passionate love for their country. The times of the Gentiles are still in course of accomplishment. of It was thus that Sara obeyed Abraham calling him, "Lord." was, that he existed in his divine nature before he was Such was the ordering of matters under God's hand for both. And again, it is interesting to me because it shows us Peter's good working knowledge of the Scriptures. 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. In every sphere of ancient civilization, women had no rights at all. He said they are in prison (cf. In this passage we can see how Peter was soaked in the Old Testament; there are two Old Testament foundations for it. I definitely believe in water baptism and I personally believe in water baptism by full immersion. It is a strange sound and fact at first, but in the end precious. No particular stress should be laid here on the phrase he went. The literal sense is, he, having gone, preached, etc. Before God we bow down in praise and adoration; before the world we are conscious of the glory grace has given us. It is indeed a forcible and, in general, a faithful version, but it not seldom fails in accuracy. "He that would love life, and see good days,". "Laying aside," he says, "all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby to salvation." In 1Pe 1:3, Peter says, "we are born anew to a living hope thru the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. In the New Testament the corresponding noun prosagoge ( G4318) is three times used. 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 far the most natural thing to suppose that the spirits were in prison at the time when Christ went and preached to them. 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. But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, a meek and a quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is very valuable ( 1 Peter 3:4 ). 3:17-22;4:1-6 For it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be the will of God, than to suffer for doing wrong. "If any man speak, [let it be] as oracles of God; if any man minister, [let it be] as of the ability which God giveth." God set them apart unto Himself by the effectual working of the Holy Ghost,. ( Psalms 88:10-12). There is another sense of salvation, and our apostle, as we shall shortly find, does not in anywise ignore it; but then he qualifies the term. There's where you have to get the right perspective. Thus he shows that even if you look at those that are dead, there was no difference. A marriage must be based on reciprocal obligation. a. Diamonds, emeralds, topazes, opals and the sardonyx were favourite stones. 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." Another view is that the people to whom Jesus preached were those alive after Pentecost and in bondage to Satan and sin. Certainly this mode of speaking would be most unsuitable. Seek peace, pursue it." The modern parallel is entering upon full membership of the Church. Compare also Jesus implication that angels do not procreate in Matthew 22:30. is future, would have coalesced, so; far as this could have been; but two distinct comings of the Lord (one past, and the other future) have broken up the matter into these separate parts. (3.) On the other hand, as here, when salvation simply and fully is meant, we are thrown on the revelation of the last time. And may God help us to be tenderhearted, not to become callused or indifferent to the needs of people around us but that we might have tender hearts, full of pity. This is, indeed, a more tolerable sense than the former; The partaking of the bread and the cup, if you --if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, you're actually partaking your own damnation. 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 ). 2 Peter 2:4 speaks of these sinning angels as being imprisoned in hell, awaiting judgment. But mark, "To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they did minister the things which are now reported to you in virtue of the Holy Ghost sent from heaven. The New Testament is completely sure that on the Cross something happened which never needs to happen again and that in that happening sin is finally defeated. 3:18-22 For Christ also died once and for all for our sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. 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). "The just for the unjust,". I have lost the cream of my congregation." And just how it all vanished. pneumasin, plural) as referring to the unsaved (human spirits) of Noahs day. The saints are chosen through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience. There is no kind of a hierarchy in the spiritual realm. It was to them that Enoch did, in fact, preach; and there are those who think that what this passage means is not that Christ preached mercy and another chance; but that, in token of his complete triumph, he preached terrible doom to those angels who had sinned. A corresponding illustration in the New Testament is baptism. Christian humility comes from two things. But you need never be afraid of trusting God or His word. So here we find that the Christian Jews, who might have exonerated themselves from the burden laid on them by their heathen masters, are earnestly exhorted by the apostle Peter to do their bidding for the Lord's sake. 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. They think it strange when you do not rush to join them in the same flood of profligacy and they abuse you for not doing so. But this gives the apostle an occasion to speak of Jesus, especially as he had spoken of His appearing, and this in a way that remarkably brings out the character of Christianity. Such conduct will silence slander and disarm criticism. "[31] Herodotus often used such expressions as "he spoke, saying," or "he speaking, said," and we have the same kind of an expression in "he went and preached." 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. "He," it is said of Christ, "gave them gifts, to each man according to his several ability." The technical word for that question and answer clause is eperotema ( G1906) in Greek, stipulatio in Latin. It seems to me that rather means a watchtower in which watchmen stand for the purpose of watching, or the very act of watching, for it is often so taken by Greek authors; and the meaning would be very appropriate, that godly souls were watching in hope of the salvation promised them, as though they saw it afar off. But it may be inquired, Why he puts in prison the souls of the godly after having quitted their bodies? Thus neither faith had its adequate and suited sphere, nor had hope its proper character till Jesus went away. 1 PETER 3:19 evn w|- kai, Several scholars have advocated the conjectural emendation that introduces the subject "Enoch" (enwkaienw,). He tells her something very simple--nothing else than to be a good wife. Peter has just laid down the duty of wives; now he lays down the duty of husbands. 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"! Now the new nature in the believer never has any other thought or feeling; only in our case there is also the old nature which may, and which alas! Next follows the salutation, "Grace unto you, and peace," the usual Christian or apostolic style of address. The coming of Jesus might be misunderstood, as being a much more comprehensive term than His appearing or revelation. There's an Old Swedish proverb, Good looks don't last, good cookers do. This I deny altogether. All this will come in due time, and it may be very rapidly, even the self-same hour; but the very first thing that a soul born of God feels is the desire at all cost to do the will of God. These Christian Jews were not sown in the earth. What can be more magnificent than this setting of the Christian on his own proper basis? The order here is precise and instructive. But at all cost God's will must be done; "by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." The elders are not to treat the flock as if it belonged to them. Peter does not tell the wife to preach or to argue. 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). And it really ministered to me how that a soft answer turns away wrath. But the conjecture fails to do this. Christ died once and for all for sins. And the high priest asked them, Acts 5:27 The captain and officers just went to collect the apostles but without any violence. acc-pl-fem. 2 Peter 3:3-4). To restrict yourself to it would be a wrong, not so much to your own soul as to God's grace; and if there be any difference, especially to Him who suffered all things for God's glory and for our own infinite blessing. for they were in peace and rest, in the kingdom of heaven, in What was the substance of this preaching we are not here told, the word itself (which is not the same as, e.g., in 1Peter 1:25) only means to publish or proclaim like a crier or herald; and as the spirits are said to have been disobedient and in prison, some have thought that Christ went to proclaim to them the certainty of their damnation! No such idea is traceable in the word of God. judgment, which is an eternal one; nor is there any salvation, or For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. (4.) The text of 1 Pet 3:19-20 is indeed difficult, but not incomprehensible. And the woman is always fishing for the affirmation of this. As was natural for him, Peter sums the matter up by quoting Psalms 34:1-22, with its picture of the man whom God receives and the man whom God rejects. We shall see that this comes later on in our epistle, and therefore I need say no more upon it now. At any rate the most important part is noticed; and in particular the great social bond, wives and husbands (1 Peter 3:1-22). There were as many ways of dressing the hair as there were bees in Hybca. ". It is into this very snare that unbelief has brought men in Christendom. I mean, I was ready to tear him apart. It means that the work of Christ is infinite in its range. 3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; So Herodotus, to these things they spake, saying - for they said. "The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any that go down into silence" ( Psalms 115:17). The word , spirits, is supposed to render this view of the subject improbable, because this must mean disembodied spirits; but this certainly does not follow, for the spirits of just men made perfect, Hebrews 12:23, certainly means righteous men, and men still in the Church militant; and the Father of spirits, Hebrews 12:9, means men still in the body; and the God of the spirits of all flesh, Numbers 16:22; Numbers 27:16, means men not in a disembodied state. For Christ also died once and for all for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. First Peter 3:18-20 says, "For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark . So you, husbands don't try to pounce on this scripture and use it as a club to beat your wives in submission. Honey, do you love me? All through the New Testament rings this plea for Christian unity. This is to speak "as oracles of God." In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, 21 and this water symbolizes . In due time there will be the fulfilment of the prophecies to the letter. So there are people and events and customs in the Old Testament which are types, and which find their antitypes in the New Testament. 1 Peter 3 is the third chapter of the First Epistle of Peter in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement. Even the kingdom on earth does not suffice. Immediately the idea of being brought to safety through the water turns Peter's thoughts to Christian baptism, which is also a bringing to safety through the water. Not intended as that at all. The object of sacrifice is to restore that lost relationship. Here it is a pain to be obliged once more to make a depreciatory remark on our common English version. It is plain that, if God foreordained it, He at the same time took care to act on it, and this is long before either Judaism or the law. Therefore the words must be properly understood of the dead. In any presentation of the Christian case and in any argument for the Christian faith, the accent should be the accent of love. Through him we have boldness and access and confidence to come to God ( Ephesians 3:12). Why are modern Bible translations copyrighted. It is a great mistake to suppose that the blood there is used as a sign of the putting away of sin. This is what we've been called to do. Here it is not merely believing in the Messiah, but believing in "God that raised him up from the dead.". For, in the nature of things, he may lose these things at any moment. Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are abused, those who revile your good behaviour in Christ may be put to shame. 16 having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in christ. Simply to believe in Christ may make a man quite happy, but it never of itself gives solid unbreakable peace. "When he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously; who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree." Peter has been speaking about the wicked men who were disobedient and corrupt in the days of Noah; they were ultimately destroyed. "[32] Speaking of the preaching of the apostles themselves, Paul said that Christ "came and preached peace to you that were afar off" (Ephesians 2:17); but Christ preached to the Ephesians through human instruments, nevertheless it is said that he "came and preached" to them. As time went on, there emerged the idea of stages and divisions in this shadowland. Now, there are some women who are outstanding artists, and they can paint a beautiful face. There is the suffering in which we are involved because of our humanity. Peter proceeded to explain the significance of Jesus resurrection and exaltation not only for believers but also for the whole universe. We do honour to the world and shame to this our place by seeking its favours. God would not wait much longer upon them. They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. In this passage Rendel Harris suggested that the word Enoch was missed out in the copying of Peter's writing and should be put back in. The very first sentence is a reminiscence of Isaiah 50:9: "Behold, the Lord God helps me; who will declare me guilty?" But this was the will of God. 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. He sacrificed himself to restore our lost relationship with God. Proud member The Lord spoke of a day when they should know it; but as yet the foundation was not even laid for it. Browne, Articles, p. 95) as merely "a place of safe keeping," where good spirits might be as well as bad, though etymologically this is imaginable. 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. And interestingly enough, Sarah had and asserted her place, too. It is the grace of the Risen Lord which cleanses us; it is to the Risen, Living Lord that we pledge ourselves; it is to the Risen, Living Lord that we look for strength to keep the pledge that we have given. "We are begotten again," says he, "to a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." 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. It hence follows, that we shall not less feel it in vivifying whatever is mortal in us. Christ has suffered for sins; He has had there, if we may so say, a monopoly; and there let it end: why should we? Here in Christianity emerged the revolutionary principle that women had equal spiritual rights and with that the relationship between the sexes was changed. 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. (ii) The second attitude is limitation. It is as if God had purposely put verse 11 to negative the conclusions which men have drawn from a misunderstanding of verse 10. We might put it that the Old Testament event symbolically represents and foreshadows the New Testament event. Certainly the Jews of old were rarely good subjects. speaks of such as had been disobedient, and unbelievers; a 19 After being made alive,[ a] he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits 20 to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. As all know, many things were allowed then for the hardness of the heart, which are thoroughly condemned now. 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. The legal sacrifices were repeated from day to day, and from year to year; but the sacrifice of Christ, once offered, purgeth away sin, Hebrews 7:27; Hebrews 9:26; Hebrews 9:28; Hebrews 10:10; Hebrews 10:12; Hebrews 10:14. Some wish to eliminate it altogether and attempt to do so along two lines. Therefore it is observable there was the sprinkling of the book along with it. Christian forgets his proper dignity. So, then, even in suffering the Christian is still blessed. alive in the days of Noah, and who being disobedient, when they The men do not have an advantage over the women or vice versa; as far as in Christ, we are all one. 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. 1 Peter 4. What am I going to do? Such labour is no modern thing. 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 Peter is saying recognize that that is the true beauty. Nay, we have Christ Himself brought in to enforce and illustrate it. And this kid said, I didn't know what was going on, I was --I was ready to do something. Whatever the form, God never gives up His righteous government, though there is His grace also. It is not said to be at Christ's coming. Turn away from evil, do good. he does not do, and of the evil that he does, he has a dread of God, knowing that He must bring into judgment the good that he knew but did not, and the evil that he knew and did. Not at all. But their punishment was delayed to see if they would repent; and the long-suffering of God waited one hundred and twenty years, which were granted to them for this purpose; during which time, as criminals tried and convicted, they are represented as being in prison-detained under the arrest of Divine justice, which waited either for their repentance or the expiration of the respite, that the punishment pronounced might be inflicted. 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