-
Verse 15. _FOR SO IS THE WILL OF GOD_] God, as their supreme
governor, shows them that it is his will that they should act
uprightly and obediently at all times, and thus confound the ignorance
of fo...
-
FOR SO IS THE WILL OF GOD - That is, it is in accordance with the
divine will that in this way you should put them to silence.
THAT WITH WELL DOING - By a life of uprightness and benevolence.
YE MAY...
-
III. CHRIST THE PATTERN FOR HIS SAINTS
CHAPTER 2:11-3:9
_ 1. Abstinence and submission (1 Peter 2:11)_
2. Christ the pattern for those who suffer (1 Peter 2:18)
3. Glorifying Christ in the marriage...
-
1 Peter 2:13. As Jesus had given them an example so were they to live
in all dutiful obedience to human authority from the emperor to his
representatives, since they constituted the bulwarks of the St...
-
WILL. App-102.
WELL DOING. Greek. _agathopoieo._ See Acts 14:17.
PUT TO SILENCE. Same as "muzzle", 1 Corinthians 9:9.
IGNORANCE. Greek. _agno_ sia. See 1 Corinthians 15:
-
_For so is the will of God_ Better, FOR THUS IT IS THE WILL OF GOD.
This was to be the chief, if not the only, _apologia_of Christians to
the charges brought against them. They were accused of being
e...
-
ΟὝΤΩΣ may refer to the words which follow, viz. silencing
ignorance by well-doing. But οὕτως is regularly used
retrospectively to sum up some preceding statement. So here St Peter
means that by employ...
-
B. SOCIAL DUTIES. 1 Peter 2:13 to 1 Peter 3:12
13 This warfare against heathen principles of living does not mean
the subversion of the necessary bonds of society. Rather it deepens
and intensifies...
-
DISCOURSE: 2396
SUBJECTION TO CIVIL GOVERNMENT
1 Peter 2:13. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the
Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto
governors, as unto them tha...
-
YE MAY PUT TO SILENCE— _Ye may bridle-in._ The original
φιμουν, is used for putting on a _muzzle,_ as the ancients used
to do upon _oxen, horses,_ and _mules,_ as well as upon dogs. Fierce
calumniator...
-
IV. DUTIES TOWARD OTHERS 2:133:12
_1. Toward Civil Government 2:13-17_
1 Peter 2:13-14 Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's
sake: whether to the king as supreme; or unto governors, as...
-
For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence
the ignorance of foolish men:
Ground of directing them to submit themselves (1 Peter 2:13).
PUT TO SILENCE, [ fimoun (G5392)]...
-
VERSE 15. FOR SO IS THE WILL OF GOD.
You will put to silence the calumny that because of your faith you
were law-breakers. Their calumny was in consequence of their
ignorance, and also their wickedne...
-
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...
-
2:15 men; (n-19) 'Senseless men' has the article here, as showing that
it is not 'some men who are foolish,' but that men (not Christians)
are so, are known in that character. It is the character of a...
-
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD
1 PETER
_HELEN POCOCK_
CHAPTER 2
V1 Therefore stop all evil behaviour. Do not cheat people. Do not
pretend to be better than you are. Do not be jealous. Stop saying bad
th...
-
Romans 13:1-2 says that all authority comes from God. So, if
Christians do not obey their leaders, they are not obeying God. When
Peter and Paul were writing their letters, there was a bad emperor
(ru...
-
FOR SO IS THE WILL OF GOD. — This refers to the command contained in
the last two verses, which then is further explained by the clause
which follows, “that with well-doing.” See a very similar
constr...
-
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...
-
CHAPTER 7
CHRISTIANS AS PILGRIMS IN THE WORLD
1 Peter 2:11
THE Apostle opens his exhortations with a word eminently Christian:
"Beloved." It is a word whose history makes us alive to and thankful
fo...
-
The duty of the Christian towards the State; compare Romans 13:1-7.
πάσῃ ἀνθρωπίνῃ κτίσει, _every human
institution_, including rulers (14), masters (18), and husbands (1
Peter 3:1). κτίζειν is used o...
-
THE CHRISTIAN PILGRIM'S WALK
1 Peter 2:11
Strong desires must be kept under the stronger hand of the Christian
soul-not extirpated but turned into right directions as God's
providence points the way....
-
In order to obey the injunctions, those to whom Peter writes are urged
to put away all such things as are contrary to the spirit of love. In
order to do this they will long for the sustenance of the W...
-
THE CHRISTIAN AND GOVERNMENT
Peter had received some personalized instruction from the Lord as to
his attitude toward governments and may have heard what Christ told
Pilate (Matthew 17:24-27; John 19:...
-
(19) For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to
silence the ignorance of foolish men:
(19) He declares the first argument more amply, showing that Christian
liberty does among all t...
-
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from
fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (12) Having your
conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak
again...
-
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...
-
_FOOLISH MEN SILENCED_
‘For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to
silence the ignorance of foolish men.’
1 Peter 2:15
Christ’s disciples need not expect to fare better than thei...
-
15_For so is the will of God _He returns to his former doctrine, lest
an occasion should be given to the unbelieving to speak evil, though
he expresses less than what he had said before; for he says o...
-
Thus cleansed therefore and born of the word, they were to put off all
fraud, hypocrisy, envy, slander; and, as new-born babes, to seek for
this milk of the understanding, in order to grow thereby (fo...
-
FOR SO IS THE WILL OF GOD,.... Which refers not so much to what goes
before; though it is a truth, that it is the will of God that men
should be subject to magistrates, and that magistrates should
enc...
-
For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence
the ignorance of foolish men:
Ver. 15. _Ye may put to silence_] Gr. φιμουν, muzzle, or halter
up, button up their mouths, as we s...
-
_Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man_ Greek, παση
ανθρωπινη κτισει, _to every human constitution_ of
government, under which you are placed by Divine Providence, and which
is formed instrument...
-
PUT TO SILENCE; a good life best confounds slanderers....
-
FOR SO IS THE WILL OF GOD, THAT WITH WELL DOING YE MAY PUT TO SILENCE
THE IGNORANCE OF FOOLISH MEN;...
-
Obedience to the constituted authorities:...
-
Ch.2: 1 Timothy 6
Since the Word of God is the solid foundation of all, eternal blessing
for us, it surely follows that we should gladly lay aside all that is
contrary to It. Indeed, these evils liste...
-
_ 1 Peter 2:15 ‘For such is the will of God that by doing right you
may silence the ignorance of foolish men.'_
‘FOR SUCH IS THE WILL OF GOD' -Peter isn't giving his own opinion.
The Apostles knew wha...
-
13-17 A Christian conversation must be honest; which it cannot be, if
there is not a just and careful discharge of all relative duties: the
apostle here treats of these distinctly. Regard to those du...
-
FOR SO IS THE WILL OF GOD; his command. THAT WITH WELL-DOING; all
manner of offices of humanity, whereof obedience to magistrates is a
principal one. YE MAY PUT TO SILENCE; Greek, muzzle, stop the mou...
-
1 Peter 2:15 For G3754 this G3779 is G2076 (G5748) will G2307 God
G2316 good G15 (G5723) silence...
-
‘For so is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to
silence the ignorance of foolish men,'
And one good reason for behaving in this way is because by doing what
is seen to be right evil t...
-
THEY ARE TO BE OBEDIENT TO THE AUTHORITIES (1 PETER 2:13).
He emphasises here that being sojourners does not mean that Christians
are rebels or that they deny their responsibilities towards authority....
-
The relative duties of Christians are now taken up as essentially
concerned in that self-restraint and seemliness of conduct which was
to be the best refutation of mischievous misrepresentation, and t...
-
1 Peter 2:15. FOR SO IS THE WILL OF GOD, _i.e_ the will of God is to
_the following effect_ (cf. Matthew 1:18, where the same word is
rendered ‘on this wise ‘), namely, THAT BY WELL DOING YE SILENCE
T...
-
BY WELL-DOING
(αγαθοποιουντας). Present active participle of
αγαθοποιεω, only in LXX and N.T. (Mark 3:4). In accusative
case agreeing with υμας understood, accusative of general
reference with φιμοι...
-
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside 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: If...
-
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside 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: if...
-
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside 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: Ha...
-
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and
hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,-_
This is what we are to lay aside, to put away from us, to banish
altogether. The...
-
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and
hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,_
Putting these evil things right away from you, having nothing further
to do with...
-
CONTENTS: Exhortation to holiness and growth in view of Christ's great
sacrifice. Christ's vicarious sufferings.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Peter.
CONCLUSION: The Word of God is the proper and necessar...
-
1 Peter 2:4. _To whom coming as to a living stone._ The jews boasted
of their temple, an undisputed blessing. But when the christians fled
from Jerusalem, they took the true, the living temple with th...
-
FOR GOD'S WILL IS THIS. "I assure you that it is God's will that you
submit yourselves to human authority. By doing this you will be able
to silence those ignorant men who insult and slander you, and...
-
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 2:15 The godly lives of believers will PUT
TO SILENCE false charges raised against them.
⇐...
-
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
1 Peter 2:13. SUBMIT YOURSELVES.—This belongs to the care Christians
should take not to be in any sense an occasion of offence in Society
(Romans 13:1). ORDINANCE OF MA...
-
EXPOSITIONS
1 PETER 2:1
WHEREFORE LAYING ASIDE. Those who would wear the white robe of
regeneration must lay aside the filthy garments (Zechariah 3:3) of the
old carnal life. So St. Paul bids us put...
-
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and
all envying, and all evil speakings (1 Peter 2:1),
Set these things aside, we're to love one another with a pure heart
fervently....
-
1 Peter 2:12; 1 Peter 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:18;...
-
Put to silence [φ ι μ ο υ ν]. A very graphic word, meaning to
muzzle or gag. Compare 1 Corinthians 9:9; 1 Timothy 5:18. See on
Matthew 22:12. Ignorance [α γ ν ω σ ι α ν]. In classical Greek
it is an i...
-
The ignorance — Of them who blame you, because they do not know you:
a strong motive to pity them....