He is no longer waiting for the sprinkling of that precious blood, he is already sprinkled with it before God. 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. Turn away from evil, do good. She's needing this assurance and she fishes for this assurance because she needs the security of knowing that she's loved. Peter, as it were, gathers together the great qualities of the Christian life. At its simplest, the doctrine of the descent into Hades lays down the complete identity of Christ with our human condition, even to the experience of death. By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; "By which" refers to the Holy Spirit of verse 18. Who ever loved a person that he never saw? Such is Christianity. (vi) Peter sees the work of Christ in terms of complete triumph. Hence it is evident that, as long as the times of the Gentiles proceed, the Jews cannot regain their ancient title, nor become the real owners of Emmanuel's land. Peter now reminded his readers of the consequences of Jesus response to unjustified persecution. In 1 Peter 3:18-22 he cited Jesus resurrection and ascension into glory, the "missing links" in the previous record of Jesus experiences. hope of salvation afterwards; and the latter is absurd, vain, and Peter is, in effect, saying that in baptism God said to the man coming direct from heathenism: "Do you accept the terms of my service? But it did not matter whether one gave silver or gold, it was all corruptible; and to what did it come at last? "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." And one of these old vans --and it died, just as he got in front of me. Monday, 7 March 2022 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. But then He may do more and display Himself to the world. 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. place; some referring it to such in Noah's time, to whom the that he went unto it, or preached in it; only that the spirits It symbolizes that which has already transpired in my heart. Antistius Vetus divorced his wife because he saw her secretly speaking to a freed woman in public. The word occurs thirty-eight times in the New Testament in the undoubted sense of a "prison," and not once in that of a place of protection, though twice (Revelation 18:2) it is used in the derived sense of "a cage." Even so, "Baptism," Peter says, "saves us." In this I, for one, do not believe. He is keeping up the link with saints of old by a general principle. There may be unpopularity, persecution, sacrifice for principle and the deliberate choosing of the difficult way, the necessary discipline and toil of the Christian life. It is more than a plea; it is an announcement that no man can live the Christian life unless in his personal relationships he is at unity with his fellow-men; and that the Church cannot be truly Christian if there are divisions within it. 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. What were the disciples then? Because of it, all who trust in Christ are brought to His Father. Persons ought not to speak unless they have a certainty that what they wish to say is not only true (this is not what is said) but the actual will of God nor the occasion. In face of all this Peter pleads for the graces which adorn the heart, which are precious in the sight of God. The truth is that the assumption of "my flock," or "yours", is the root of endless mischief. Nevertheless these "spirits" could still be angels. She must be pure. "To salvation" you will not find in your common Bibles, but it is none the less true for all that. Here are David's comments on verse 19, lightly adapted for readability: A number of alternative interpretations have been given. There is given to the soul of him who thus rests on God's power keeping him a wholly different tone from that of the man who thinks of his own perseverance as a saint. 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. And Peter and his friends went away rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer that kind of persecution for Jesus. Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are abused, those who revile your good behaviour in Christ may be put to shame. Of uncertain affinity; to herald, especially divine truth. Hebrew Names Version Chapter Parallel 1 Peter 3:19 (HNV) in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison, The meaning is that there is nothing in earth and heaven outside the empire of Christ. "Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind." I have lost the cream of my congregation." Now that word has changed in the usage, too. "Dost thou work wonders for the dead? That, of course, we call hypocrisy and that has been the bane and the curse of the church. And she's always fishing for "Honey, you're beautiful. 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. First, this incident evidently did not take place during the construction of the ark but before construction began. Christ died once and for all for sins. 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. He reminds the Christians of Rome that, though they are many, they are one body, and he pleads with them to be of one mind ( Romans 12:4; Romans 12:16). Sanctification of the Spirit is altogether distinct from that gift. He had gone and preached unto the spirits, By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison. Up to that time membership of Christ, or to be in Christ, was not a fact, and consequently could not be testified to any soul, nor known to the most advanced believer. No particular stress should be laid here on the phrase he went. The literal sense is, he, having gone, preached, etc. What had Christ not gone through in the same path? And Rendel Harris thought that this passage referred, not to Jesus, but to Enoch, and Moffatt so far agreed with him as to put Enoch into his translation. It may be well to point out that the Spirit is used particularly in connection with Noah, as we find in Genesis 6:1-22: "My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh." To him be the glory and the might for the ages of the ages. 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. 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." Such is not., the topic of Peter; it had been given to another instrument more fitted for revealing the heavenly position of the believer. 2 Peter 2:4 speaks of these sinning angels as being imprisoned in hell, awaiting judgment. 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. The common printed Vulgate is different from all these, and from all the MSS. Want the Verse of the Day sent to your inbox? In this chapter (1 Peter 4:1-19) we come to the divine government in dealing with nature opposing itself to the will of God. To "the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot." What a place for the Christian! 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. He is now fulfilling the Levitical types in the holiest of all. There is nothing at all in the verse that warrants a web of doctrine strange to the rest of the Bible. In the world of the Greeks and the Romans it is interesting to collect the references to personal adornments. This will not be the case when the Jews shall be brought back to the land. "Baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh . He's giving you just one so you can't forget. It just noted that he had gone down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there. the gates of hell; were in the bonds of iniquity, and dead in But the wonderful place given to the Christian is that, though we do become the people of God now, whether Jew or Gentile, and although the believing Jew does obtain mercy now, he is not sown on the earth, but called out for heaven, and, in consequence, becomes a pilgrim and stranger here below till Jesus appears. acc-pl-neu. Let us then bear in mind that we are a royal priesthood "to show forth," as it is said here, "the virtues of him who hath called us out of darkness into his marvellous light." alive in the days of Noah, and who being disobedient, when they 1Pe 3:19 in which [fn] he went and proclaimed [fn] to the spirits in prison, Tools 1Pe 3:20 because [fn] they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Israel must wait; but we do not. The apostle represents us as growing by the word to salvation ( i.e., the end in glory). Then this explanation cannot be right. This is exactly what modern presbyters think they may and ought to do every day of their lives. Peter turns to the domestic problems which Christianity inevitably produced. It takes them awhile; it takes longer as the years go by. One of the legends was that Enoch, though a man, acted as "God's envoy" to the angels who sinned by coming to earth and lustfully seducing mortal women ( Genesis 6:2). incarnate, he was before Abraham, he was in the days of Noah; and 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. You can easily judge whether that day is come now. (ii) He lays it down that that sacrifice was for sin. That ethic is what may be called a reciprocal ethic. Who is gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him ( 1 Peter 3:22 ). 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. Alas! Instead of improving the intelligibility of the passage (as a co. Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary A Christian wife of those times lived in a society where she would be tempted to senseless extravagance and where she might well go in fear of the caprices of her heathen husband; but she must live in selfless service, in goodness and in serene trust. Such labour is no modern thing. On the other method of interpretation, we can suggest a reason why they were particularly specified. (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. Therefore, he is completely secure. 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. ", 1 Peter 2:1-25. 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. That is a magnificent picture. That the just should suffer for the unjust is an extraordinary thing. And then the Lord said to the wives, "Submit yourself unto your own husbands" ( Ephesians 5:22 ). In a hostile and suspicious world it was inevitable that the Christian would be called upon to defend the faith he held and the hope by which he lived. apostles, to the Gentiles, as in ( Ephesians Now, I need not tell you, things are in a certain measure of confusion. He did so to strengthen their resolve to rededicate themselves to follow Gods will wholeheartedly and confidently. 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.". The New Testament says this same thing often. The next verse makes it certain that it was during the generation of Noah, a time when the "spirits" here mentioned were not "spirits" merely, but "souls"; therefore, "spirits in prison" is a reference to their status at the time Peter wrote. (iii) Peter's answer is this. Even the kingdom on earth does not suffice. "What profit is there in my death if I go down to the pit? (i) Baptism is not merely a physical cleansing; it is a spiritual cleansing of the whole heart and soul and life. The enforcement of the conduct from Scripture,1 Peter 3:10-12 Acts 12:20. The answer is this: "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ." 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. And so in the challenging of the authority, they then feel they have to assert their manhood. Are thy wonders known in the darkness, or thy saving help in the land of forgetfulness?" 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. In Christ Jesus the dividing walls are down, and Jew and Greek are united into one ( Ephesians 2:13-14). in their bodies, in the general deluge, yet their souls were The whole attitude of ancient civilization was that no woman could dare take any decision for herself. 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. 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 you suffer for evil doing, you've got it coming. 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 ). In Ephesians chapter four, Paul tells us that "He who has ascended is the same one who first of all descended into the lower parts of the earth. Nor is there a doubt but that the holy fathers in life, as well as after death, directed their thoughts to this object. It is when we are at one with each other that we are at one with him. See the analysis of the chapter. 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. So when He died, He descended into hell. His traditions wrap him up in fog. . carries on the same idea, of not exacting too rigid accounts, as on 1 peter 3:6 ; , , as some, to preach to the devils and damned spirits, that they The elders are told to feed or shepherd the flock of God which was among them, exercising the oversight, not by necessity, but willingly; not for base gain, but readily, etc. This again is a difficulty to some minds. Christ died once and for all for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. He then went to the place where evil spirits are imprisoned awaiting final judgment and announced his victory (18-19). The order here is precise and instructive. Gods saving of Noah and his family by means of the ark illustrates the salvation of believers. "If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar" ( 1 John 4:20). But they both suppose an open door for ministry among Christians in the Christian assembly. What they were here directed to was to "feed the flock of God." a great many perished. that he was come, and to fill them with dread and terror; but He has everlasting life now, and is a heavenly person even while upon the earth. She that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and Marcus my son. 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." Matthew 24:37-39//Luke 17:26-27)." 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.. ( Psalms 6:5). Least of all can the Jews be said to be sown in the land of Palestine. Slippers were encrusted with them; Nero even had a room whose walls were covered with them. point here, but if possible a deeper thing; and for the simple reason, that practical holiness must be relative or a question of degree. As Edwin H. Robertson put it: "Only forgiveness without reason can match sin without excuse." 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. In fact, it's worse than that; it is --it's almost condemning to me. But even now grace gives the believer (here believing Jews) to enter that place; we are now God's people. knowing that you are thereunto called, that you should inherit a blessing ( 1 Peter 3:9 ). pneumasin, plural) as referring to the unsaved (human spirits) of Noahs day. The text of 1 Pet 3:19-20 is indeed difficult, but not incomprehensible. You know you get out and rail at someone, this guy's going to pull a gun at you. in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, Young's Literal Translation. It comes, first, from the sense of creatureliness. In 1Pe 1:3, Peter says, "we are born anew to a living hope thru the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Here, I. 1 Likewise. The question was: "Do you accept the terms of this contract, and bind yourself to observe them?" 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. In due time there will be the fulfilment of the prophecies to the letter. Therefore there could be no comparison on that score, not even for a Jew. One could say that Jesus proclaimed a message to Noahs unbelieving contemporaries in His spirit (i.e., His spiritual state of life before the Incarnation) through Noah. Holy Women Who Hoped in God Mother's Day. Because the more cold and aloof you are, the less secure she feels. Why is it that you are not upset over this? I'm thinking about a television station locally here. In 1 Peter 3:19 he says that Jesus preached to the spirits in prison; and in 1 Peter 4:6 he says that the gospel was preached to them that are dead. Those spirits had led people to rebel against God (as, for example, in the time of Noah; see Genesis 6:1-8), but Christ has now conquered all sin and rebellion. He said the spirits of these unbelievers are in prison now (i.e., Sheol) awaiting resurrection and judgment by God (cf. It is granted that there is a sanctification in scripture which bears on practice. Acts 2:27, as all the newer translations correctly show, should be translated not: "Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell," but, "Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades." 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. The ancient moralists condemned undue luxury as much as the Christian teachers did. How important to be courteous. I have every confidence of that. ", This leads to another important point; that if we do suffer, it ought never to be for sin, and for the affecting reason that Christ has once for all suffered for sins. This is somewhat difficult for theology, because in general even intelligent and godly souls are much shut up in the prevalent commonplaces of men. only to their responsibility, not to their faith; and if it be responsibility, whether to do the law or to believe the Messiah, it is all one as far as the result in man is concerned. But if it means that he preached to those who lived in the days of Noah, while they were yet alive, the question will be asked why are they called spirits?. 1 Peter 3:9 Aramaic NT: Peshitta. 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). All this was thoroughly in season; and after it, as we are told, the blindness was taken away, and he was filled with the Holy Ghost. It is not merely the Christian who is called to this, but this is what Christ was called to. Isaiah had called Sara the mother of God's faithful people ( Isaiah 51:2); and if Christian wives are adorned with the same graces of modesty, humility and chastity, they too will be her daughters and will be within the family of the faithful people of God. 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! How could one hope for One who was here, however different His estate from what was longed for and expected? There is the attitude of elimination. Honey, do I look nice? Where is each to be proved? It may seem strange that Peter's advice to wives is six times as long as that to husbands. And John got hold of her and dragged her off as she was railing, going around the corner, you know. And these are the things that convince the Moslem of the truth of Christianity.So Paul is declaring that our lifestyle is all-important. Perhaps it is needless to say how the heart is tried. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. Now, when a conscience is touched by the Holy Spirit, what is it that satisfies such a conscience? (a) Peter says that in the Spirit Christ preached to the spirits in prison, who were disobedient in the time when the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, when the ark was being built. Cato the Censor insisted on simplicity; Lucius Valerius answered: "Why should men grudge women their ornaments and their dress? how often and readily the. They will have everything at their command, and worthily use all for God. They then ceased to be manifestly God's people. It only makes confusion in jumbling up law and gospel, to the detriment of both, and indeed to the destruction of all the beauty and force of truth. It is not merely the work effected, but salvation revealed; and hence it necessarily awaits the revelation of Jesus Christ. Jesus went to the cross and died there for your sins. In a certain sense they are strangers now; but it is an awful sense, because it is the fruit of judgment. Our relationships with God can never be right, if our relationships with our fellow-men are wrong. 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. 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. 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). The speaker should be God's mouthpiece for making His mind known there and then. 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. Here in Christianity emerged the revolutionary principle that women had equal spiritual rights and with that the relationship between the sexes was changed. 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." So Bloomfield maintains, (in loc.,) and so (Ecumenius and Cyril, as quoted by Bloomfield. The unbelieving might taunt the Christians with their scanty numbers, while the great mass still remained Jews, and with the absurdity of such a conclusion to the coming of Messiah. Since this is the only passage in the New Testament upon which the Roman Catholic doctrine of purgatory is supposed to rest, it is important to ascertain the fair meaning of the language here employed. (1-2) The heart of a godly wife. It is, therefore, better first of all to read it as a whole and then to study it in its various sections. Jesus said, "Blessed are ye," and the word "blessed" is happy; "when men persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. All on which one could look with delight and praise was concentrated in His own person. They were that wicked race which lived in the days of Noah. Then, even if some refuse to obey the Good News, your godly lives will speak to them without any words. 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. "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" Because they have partaken of the one bread, they must be one body ( 1 Corinthians 10:17). The purpose of the cross is to put away our sin, which had separated us from God. Acts 17:1 (NKJV) 1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. Maybe some of you have some ideas you can share with me.Having devoted six verses to the wives, he now devotes one to the husband. In the narrow compass of these two verses Peter has the greatest and the deepest things to say about the work of Christ. the just [died] for the unjust ( 1 Peter 3:18 ), "God made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin" ( 2 Corinthians 5:21 ). 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. does struggle to have its own way. You may have the real substance of the truth, but you cannot have it in all official propriety at the present time. 2 Timothy 4:18 (see , b. under the end); , 1 Peter 3:20 (the Sept. Genesis 19:19, and often in Greek . You are the strong one, give her that strength. It was clearly the consequence of the Holy Ghost being given to him, but the gift of the Spirit is not the sanctification of the Spirit. Through him we have boldness and access and confidence to come to God ( Ephesians 3:12). His explanation was that, since most manuscript copying was done to dictation, scribes were, very liable to miss words which followed each other, if they, en ( G1722) ho ( G3588) kai ( G2532) and Enoch ( G1802), sound very much alike, and Rendel Harris thought it very likely. Therefore it is observable there was the sprinkling of the book along with it. 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. The mark of the Christian is that he forgives others as God has forgiven him ( Ephesians 4:32). 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