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1 PETER 1:24 auvth/j
Instead of auvth/j (î72 ac (&tou a*) A B C 206 614 1739 1873 2298 vg
syrp, h cop(sa), bo eth Origen Didymus), the Textu...
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Verse 24. _FOR ALL FLESH_ IS _AS GRASS_] Earthly seeds, earthly
productions, and earthly generations, shall fail and perish like as
the grass and flowers of the field; for the _grass withereth_, and
_...
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FOR ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS - That is, all human beings, all men. The
connection here is this: The apostle, in the previous verse, had been
contrasting that which is begotten by man with that which is b...
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II. THE BLESSINGS AND PRIVILEGES OF ALL BELIEVERS
CHAPTER 1:22-2:10
_ 1. The new birth (1 Peter 1:22)_
2. Spiritual growth (1 Peter 2:1)
3. The privileges of believers as the holy and royal priesth...
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1 Peter 1:22 to 1 Peter 2:10. The Christians, who were formerly
pagans, are created a new race in Christ Jesus, and consecrated as a
special priesthood of service to the whole world. Their life must b...
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GRASS. Compare James 1:10; James 1:11.
MAN. The texts read "it", referring to "flesh".
WITHERETH. withered. Compare James 1:11, where the verbs are in the
past tense, as here....
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_For all flesh is as grass_ The words have a two-fold interest: (1) as
a quotation from the portion of Isaiah's prophecy (Isaiah 40:6-8) with
which the Apostle must have been familiar in connexion wit...
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INTRODUCTORY EXHORTATION FOUNDED UPON THE BENEDICTION
1 Peter 1:13 to 1 Peter 2:10
13–25. 13 The new life of hope, faith and privilege to which you
have been begotten involves corresponding responsi...
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ΔΙΌΤΙ is used again to introduce a quotation in 1 Peter 1:16 and
1 Peter 2:6.
The quotation is taken from Isaiah 40:6-8, and agrees with the LXX. in
omitting the words “because the breath of the Lord...
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ΧΌΡΤΟΣ (G5528) трава,
ΆΝΘΟΣ (G438) цветок. ΈΞΗΡΆΝΘΗ _aor. ind. pass.
от_ ΞΗΡΑΊΝΩ (G3583) высушивать; _pass._
сохнуть,
ΈΞΈΠΕΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΚΠΊΠΤΩ (G1601)
опадать. _Aor._ выразительно описыв...
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FOR ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS, &C.— _Flesh_ is often, by a common
figure, put for _man:_ but perhaps the apostle here used the word to
intimate that he meant the _body_ of man, frail and short-lived like...
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_5. BROTHERLY LOVE 1:22-25_
1 Peter 1:22-23 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience
to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another
from the heart fervently: having be...
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For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of
grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
Scripture proof that the word of God lives forever, in contrast...
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VERSE 24 FOR ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS.
To make the declaration that God's word is living and eternal to stand
out with more boldness, the apostle presents by the way of contrast, a
quotation from the pro...
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24 Isa_40:6-8.
4 Our Lord, speaking to the chief priests and elders, told them that
the kingdom of God would be taken from them and given to a nation
bringing forth its fruits, in proof of which He a...
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GREETING IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY TRINITY. ENCOURAGEMENT TO HOPE IN
FAITH AND OBEDIENCE
1, 2. To the strangers scattered throughout.. elect] RV 'to the elect
who are sojourners of the Dispersion in,' e...
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BARE OUR SINS.. ON] RM 'carried up.. to.' A sacrificial term is here
used: cp. Hebrews 7:27; Hebrews 9:28; Hebrews 13:15. THE TREE] i.e.
the Cross: cp....
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MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD
1 PETER
_HELEN POCOCK_
INTRODUCTION
THE WRITER
Peter wrote this letter. He was one of the 12 *apostles. His name was
Simon, but Jesus changed it to Peter (John 1:42). ‘Pe...
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The ‘word of the *Lord’ (God) can refer to the Bible. It also
means the good news that God saves people from *sin through Jesus
Christ. When people hear or read this good news, it is like a seed
that...
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(13-25) GENERAL APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING. — This salvation being
so magnificent, the Asiatic Hebrews must cling to it tenaciously, in
holiness, in reverence caused by consideration of the cost of...
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FOR ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS. — The citation is from Isaiah 40:6, and
varies between the Hebrew and the LXX. in the kind of way which shows
that the writer was familiar with both. But the passage is by n...
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CHAPTER 5
CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD: ITS CHARACTER AND DUTIES
1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 2:1
THAT holy lives have been lived in solitude none would venture to
dispute, and that devout Christians have found s...
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The combination of purification of souls with love of the brotherhood
suggests that the temptations to relapses were due to former
intimacies and relationships which were not overcome by the spiritual...
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f. = Isaiah 40:6-8, adduced as endorsement of the comparison
instituted between natural generation and divine regeneration, with
gloss explaining the saying of Jehovah (_cf._ Hebrews 1:1 f.). The
only...
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REDEEMED AND PURIFIED
1 Peter 1:13
The appeal for a holy life is enforced by considering the great cost
of our redemption and the great hope which is opened before us. Ours
must be the girded loins,...
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Like the letter of James, the purpose of this was to establish those
who were passing through a period of suffering and testing. In his
introduction the apostle used the name Jesus had given him, "Pet...
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THE TEMPORARY MATERIAL WORLD VERSUS THE ABIDING WORD
One would never know it by observing the way people live grasping
after all they can find in this material world, but all this is
temporary. Peter...
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(14) For all (l) flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the
flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth
away:
(14) A reason why we need this heavenly birth, that is...
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And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth
according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here
in fear: (18) Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed w...
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The epistles of Peter are addressed to the elect Jews of his day,
believing of course on the Lord Jesus, and scattered throughout a
considerable portion of Asia Minor. The apostle takes particular car...
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_THE ABIDING WORD_
‘All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of
grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but
the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And t...
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24_For all flesh _He aptly quotes the passage from Isaiah to prove
both clauses; that is, to make it evident how fading and miserable is
the first birth of man, and how great is the grace of the new b...
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The First Epistle of Peter is addressed to believers among the
dispersed of Israel found in those provinces of Asia Minor Which are
named in the first Verse; the Second Epistle declares itself to be a...
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Ver. 24 FOR ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS,.... All men, as born of corruptible
seed, are frail, mortal, and perishing; they spring up like grass, and
look beautiful for a while, but are very weak and tender,...
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For all flesh _is_ as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of
grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
Ver. 24. _All flesh is grass_] To live is but to lie dying. Can...
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_For all flesh_ Every human creature, _is_ transient and withering _as
grass_ The word χορτος, here rendered grass, denotes not only
what we generally call _grass_, but all kinds of herbs; and among t...
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FOR ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS; a contrast between the weakness and
transitoriness of man and the power and eternal duration of God's
word, taken from Isaiah 40:6-8....
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Peter writes with apostolic authority and though it is directly to the
dispersed Jewish Christians (strangers both because Jews among
Gentiles, and because Christians separated from Jewish relatives),...
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FOR:
Or, for that...
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_ 1 Peter 1:24 ‘For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory
like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls off,
but the word of the Lord abides forever.”'_
‘FOR' -This is. quot...
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17-25 Holy confidence in God as a Father, and awful fear of him as a
Judge, agree together; and to regard God always as a Judge, makes him
dear to us as a Father. If believers do evil, God will visit...
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ALL FLESH; all men as born of the flesh, and in their natural state,
in opposition to regenerate men, 1 PETER 1:23. ALL THE GLORY OF MAN;
whatever is most excellent in man naturally, and which they ar...
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1 Peter 1:24 because G1360 All G3956 flesh G4561 as G5613 grass G5528
And G2532 all G3956 glory G1391 man...
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BEING BEGOTTEN AGAIN OF THE LIVING AND ETERNAL WORD OF GOD HAS
PURIFIED THEIR SOULS IN OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH, AND THIS MUST WORK
ITSELF OUT IN LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER (1 PETER 1:22).
He now outlines wha...
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1 Peter 1:24. FOR ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS. Peter breaks off into the
rapid, vivid terms in which the prophet of Isaiah 40 speaks of his
commission. ‘The air is full of inspiration, of Divine calls and
p...
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The exhortation to brotherly love, which is next introduced, is not
without a living connection with the preceding. The circumspect walk
which has been enjoined is a walk such as befits those who are...
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1 Peter 1:24; 1 Peter 1:25 Quotation from Isaiah 40:6-8 (partly like
the LXX, partly like the Hebrew).FOR
(διοτ). As in verse 1 Peter 1:16
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1 Peter 1:24
The Frailty of Man.
"For all flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of
grass." Disease is a democrat, like death. It makes no distinctions,
and equalises all ranks in soc...
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1 Peter 1:13. _Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and
hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the
revelation of Jesus Christ;_
This is Peter's practical appli...
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1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers
scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through...
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1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,_
It must have been very pleasant to his heart to write those words, not
«Peter, who denied his Master,» not Peter, «full of imperfections
and infirmit...
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1 Peter 1:17. _And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of
persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your
sojourning here in fear:_
Not in unbelieving fear, but in that...
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1 Peter 1:1. _Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ._ These are his
credentials from him who is Prince of the kings of the earth. _To the
strangers scattered_ abroad, of whose tragic dispersion we have spo...
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AS THE SCRIPTURE SAYS. Isaiah 40:6-8 Septuagint. "Our human life, like
the wild grass, doesn't last very long at the best! But a new birth
from the living and eternal word of God is a birth to eternal...
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1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:24 Peter cites Isaiah 40:6, Isaiah 40:8 to
contrast the weakness of human flesh with the powe
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
1 Peter 1:17. THE FATHER.—Better, “a Father.” God apprehended as
Father through our apprehension of the Sonship of Christ. _Plumptre_
reminds us that “the sequel shows...
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EXPOSITIONS
1 PETER 1:1
PETER. It is the Greek form of the name, which the Lord Jesus himself
had given to the great apostle; first, by anticipation, in the spirit
of prophecy (John 1:42); and again...
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Tonight let's turn to First Peter chapter one. Of the many disciples
that were following Jesus, He chose twelve to be apostles. One of the
twelve that was chosen as an apostle was Simon Peter. Simon P...
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1 John 2:17; 2 Kings 19:26; Isaiah 40:6; James 1:10; James 1:11;...
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Of man. Following the reading ajnqrwpou, in the Septuagint, Isaiah
40:6, which Peter quotes here. But the best texts read aujthv, of it,
or, as Rev., thereof.
Withereth [ε ξ η ρ α ν θ η]. Literally, t...
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THE BOOK OF BOOKS
1 Peter 1:10
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
It is said on one occasion, when Sir Walter Scott was sick, he called
his son requesting him to bring him THE book. His son said, "Your
library is...
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All flesh — Every human creature is transient and withering as
grass. And all the glory of it — His wisdom, strength, wealth,
righteousness. As the flower — The most short — lived part of it.
The gras...
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Our apostle closes the chapter, by setting before them the excellency
of their spiritual regenerate state, compared with all other
excellences and endowments whatsoever: ALL FLESH, that is, flesh with...