In his second letter, Peter says that Noah was a *preacher of right behaviour (2 Peter 2:5). The Holy Spirit spoke through Noah. He warned the people to stop their wicked behaviour. But they would not obey God, so they died in the flood. When Christ rose from death, he went and *preached to the spirits in prison. The ‘prison’ refers to the place of dead people.
1 PETER 3:19 evn w|- kai, Several scholars have advocated the conjectural emendation that introduces the subject “Enoch” (enwkaienw,). Instead of improving the intelligibility of the passage (as a co...
Verse 19. _BY WHICH_] Spirit, his own Divine energy and authority. _HE WENT AND PREACHED_] By the ministry of Noah, one hundred and twenty years. _UNTO THE SPIRITS IN PRISON_] The inhabitants of th...
BY WHICH - Evidently by the Spirit referred to in the previous verse - ἐν ᾧ en hō - the divine nature of the Son of God; that by which he was “quickened” again, after he had been put to death; th...
IV. THE COMFORT IN THE MIDST OF TRIALS AND SUFFERING CHAPTER 3:10-4:19 _ 1. The comfort in suffering (1 Peter 3:10)_ 2. Few saved as illustrated by Noah's preaching (1 Peter 3:18) 3. The new life i...
Christ Himself suffered injustice at the hands of men, but see how splendid the result! All salvation everywhere in the universe is the result of His suffering and sacrifice, and these have raised Him...
For Christ also died once and for all for our sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but he was raised to life in the Spirit, in which also he...
;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. For Christ also died once and for all for sins, the just for the unjust, that he m...
THE SILENT PREACHING OF A LOVELY LIFE (1 Peter 3:1-2)...
BY WHICH. In (Greek. _en)_ which (condition). ALSO, &C. = having gone, He even preached. PREACHED. heralded. App-121. Not the Gospel, which would be App-121. He announced His triumph. SPIRITS. App-1...
_by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison_ We enter here on a passage of which widely different interpretations have been given. It seems best in dealing with it to give in the fi...
1 Peter 3:17 to 1 Peter 4:6. _The blessedness of suffering in the flesh_ The interpretation suggested for this confessedly difficult passage may be best explained by a paraphrase of the whole section...
19 (_d_) This activity was not confined merely to the unrighteous who are alive like yourselves. In His Spirit thus quickened by death He journeyed to the underworld. He descended into Hell there to p...
1 Peter 3:13 to 1 Peter 4:6. GOOD AND EVIL DOING IN RELATION TO SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF HEATHEN, ILLUSTRATED BY THE SUFFERINGS OR CHRIST AND THEIR EFFECTS...
ΈΝ Ω (G1722; G3739) в котором. Rel. _pron._ может относиться к слову ΠΝΕΎΜΑΤΙ или обозначать состояния или обстоятельства (Selwyn, 315f; Reicke, 138; Best), ΦΥΛΑΚΉ (G5438) _dat. sing._ тюрьма, ΠΝΕΫ...
BY WHICH ALSO HE WENT, &C.— _By which Spirit also he, going, preached to the spirits in prison._ That is, our Lord, by the Spirit, inspired Noah, and thereby constituted him a preacher of righteousnes...
_2. THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST 3:184:6_ 1 Peter 3:18-19 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but m...
_BY WHICH ALSO HE WENT AND PREACHED UNTO THE SPIRITS IN PRISON;_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
VERSE 19. BY WHICH ALSO HE WENT AND PREACHED UNTO THE SPIRITS IN PRISON. By which? By the Spirit. The grammatical construction of the sentence requires this answer. The sense of the passage also dem...
19 Who are these imprisoned spirits ? Are they not the same that Peter mentions in his second epistle (1Pe_2:4) who were thrust down to the gloomy caverns of Tartarus, and the messengers of Jude's epi...
BY WHICH] RV 'in which.' IN PRISON] cp. Revelation 20:7, i.e. the place where such disembodied spirits were kept waiting for the end of the present order of things: see on 'heaven,' 14. This is the he...
THE BLESSEDNESS OF CHRIST'S PEOPLE, THOUGH THEY SHOULD SUFFER LIKE CHRIST _B_ (iii). 1 Peter 3:1. Another divinely created ordinance of man is marriage. One of the purposes of Christianity was to teac...
BY WHICH. — If “by the Spirit” had been right in the former verse, this translation might have stood here, though the word is literally _in;_ for “in” is often used to mean “in the power of,” “on the...
CHAPTER 11 THE REWARDS OF SUFFERING FOR WELL-DOING 1 Peter 3:17 THE Apostle comes back to his solemn subject. Why are the righteous called to suffering? The question was perplexing these Asian Chris...
FOLLOWING CHRIST IN BEARING INJUSTICE 1 Peter 3:13 It was said of Archbishop Cranmer that the way to make him a life-long friend was to do him some disservice, and surely these words of the Apostle h...
The marriage relation was then dealt with, and special emphasis was laid on the fact that the true adornment of woman is found in her character rather than in her dress. Husbands are charged to dwell...
CHRIST'S PREACHING IN THE DAYS OF NOAH Christ's suffering included dying for us. Jesus certainly is an example of one who suffered for doing what was right. He was a righteous person suffering for tho...
(22) By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; (22) A secret objection: Christ indeed might do this, but what is that to us? Indeed (faith the apostle) for Christ has showed his p...
In which (to wit, soul or spirit) also he came, and preached to those spirits who were in prison. The true and common interpretation of this place seems to be, that the soul of Christ, after the separ...
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; (20) Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, where...
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...
19_By which also _Peter added this, that we might know that the vivifying power of the Spirit of which he spoke, was not only put forth as to Christ himself, but is also poured forth with regard to us...
After this general exhortation, brief but important to believers, the apostle takes up the relative walk of Christians in a world where on the one hand God watches over all, yet where He permits His o...
BY WHICH ALSO HE WENT AND PREACHED UNTO THE SPIRITS IN PRISON. 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...
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Ver. 19. _He went and preached_] Righteousness, _i.e._ repentance, 2 Peter 2:5, and the faith of the gospel, 1 Peter 4:6, whereby some o...
_By which also_ That is, by which Spirit; _he went and preached_ Πορευθεις εκηρυξεν, _having gone, he preached_, namely, in and by Noah, who spake by the Spirit of Christ, (1 Peter 1:11,) and of the F...
BY WHICH; divine Spirit. HE WENT AND PREACHED; by Noah. UNTO THE SPIRITS; which, when Peter wrote, were confined in torment as in a prison. Matthew 5:25-26....
The benefits of Christ's work:...
BY WHICH ALSO HE WENT AND PREACHED UNTO THE SPIRITS IN PRISON;...
There is similar instruction for wives, for theirs is the subject place, certainly not as slaves to a master, but as joined to their "own husbands," a most-intimate and precious relationship. Because...
_ 1 Peter 3:19 ‘in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison'_ ‘IN WHICH' -Must refer back to the last statement of 1 Peter 3:18. ‘In which spirit'. Point to Note:. popula...
14-22 We sanctify God before others, when our conduct invites and encourages them to glorify and honour him. What was the ground and reason of their hope? We should be able to defend our religion wit...
BY WHICH ALSO; by which Spirit, mentioned in the end of the former verse, i.e. by, or in, his Divine nature, the same by which he was quickened. HE; Christ. This notes the person that went and preache...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV It was for this reason, too, that the Lord descended into the regions beneath the earth, preaching His advent there also, and [declaring] the remission of sins recei...
1 Peter 3:19 by G1722 whom G3739 also G2532 went G4198 (G5679) preached G2784 (G5656) spirits G4151 in...
This confirms who these ‘spirits in prison' were. Human beings are never spoken of in this way (as spirits in prison), while 2 Peter 2:4 confirms Peter's interest in the angels who sinned in the time...
‘In which also he went and made proclamation to the spirits in prison,' And it was thus in His spiritual resurrection body, which was the consequence of His obedience unto death, that He went and made...
THE GROUNDS OF THEIR CONFIDENCE IN THE FACE OF THE POWERS THAT ARE AGAINST THEM (1 PETER 3:18). If we are to understand the significance of the verses that follow it is important that we recognise the...
1 Peter 3:19. IN WHICH ALSO HE WENT AND PREACHED TO THE SPIRITS IN PRISON. Here, again, the A.V., following the Genevan alone among these earlier English Versions, wrongly renders ‘ _by_ which.' The s...
IN WHICH ALSO (εν ω κα). That is, in spirit (relative referring to πνευματ). But, a number of modern scholars have followed Griesbach's conjecture that the original text was either Νωε κα (Noah also...
1 Peter 3:19 The Spirits in Prison. I. There is one article of the Creed which, strange as it may seem, for some centuries has practically fallen into the background, and lost its hold on the thought...
CONTENTS: Duties of husbands and wives toward one another. Exhortations to Christian consistency. Christ's vicarious sacrifice. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Sara, Abraham. CONCLUSION: Worldl...
1 Peter 3:1. _Ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands._ The same words occur in Ephesians 5:22. Col 3:18. The excellence of piety is pleaded here, as the first ornament of a wife. Wisdom conne...
AND IN. "In his spiritual existence he went and preached through Noah (2 Peter 2:5) to those who are now imprisoned spirits," [Some think Jesus actually went into the world of the dead and preached th...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 3:19 SPIRITS IN PRISON. There is much debate about the identity of these spirits. The Greek term can mean either human spirits or angels, depending on the context (compare...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 3:15. LORD GOD.—Probably better, “Lord Christ.” “To sanctify Christ or God was to count His name as holy above all other names, His fear as the only fear which...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 3:1 LIKEWISE, YE WIVES. St. Peter has spoken of the duties of servants: why does he omit those of masters? There must have been Christian masters in Asia Minor, as is plain from...
Shall we turn now to First Peter chapter three as Peter addresses himself to the wives? This particular section goes back to verse thirteen of chapter two, Submit yourself to every ordinance of man fo...
1 Peter 1:11; 1 Peter 1:12; 1 Peter 4:6; Isaiah 42:7; Isaiah 49:9;...
By which [ε ν ω]. Wrong. Rev., correctly, in which : in the spiritual form of life; in the disembodied spirit. Went and preached [π ο ρ ε υ θ ε ι ς ε κ η ρ υ ξ ε ν]. The word went, employed as usual...
By which Spirit he preached — Through the ministry of Noah. To the spirits in prison — The unholy men before the flood, who were then reserved by the justice of God, as in a prison, till he executed t...
Does Peter support the view that a person can be saved after he dies? PROBLEM: First Peter 3:19 says that, after His death, Christ “went and preached to the spirits in prison.” But the Bible also say...