_Likewise_ As I have exhorted servants to be in subjection to their masters, I in like manner say, _Ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands_ In all things just and lawful; _that if any_ (he speaks tenderly) _obey not the word_ Disbelieve and reject the gospel; _they also may, without the wor... [ Continue Reading ]
_Whose adorning_, &c, See note on 1 Timothy 2:9; Titus 2:3. “Three things are here expressly forbidden: _curling the hair, wearing gold_, (by way of ornament,) and _putting_ on costly or gay _apparel._ These, therefore, ought never to be allowed, much less defended, by Christians.” Wesley. _But let... [ Continue Reading ]
_For after this manner_ Namely, with inward holiness and outward plainness; _in old time_ In the patriarchal ages; _the holy women who trusted in God_ And therefore did not act thus from servile fear, but from true piety, and are consequently worthy to be imitated; _adorned themselves_ Their adornin... [ Continue Reading ]
_Likewise, ye husbands_ See on Ephesians 5:25; Colossians 3:19; _dwell with them_ Conduct yourselves toward them, _according to knowledge_ Wisely and discreetly; suitably to that knowledge of your duty which you have obtained by the gospel: or, knowing they are weak, and therefore to be used with te... [ Continue Reading ]
_Finally_ This section of the epistle reaches to 1 Peter 4:11. The apostle seems to have added the rest afterward. _Be ye all of one mind_ Ομοφρονες, _unanimous;_ guarding against all unnecessary occasion of contention: see on Romans 12:16: _have compassion_, &c. Greek, συμπαθεις, _sympathizing with... [ Continue Reading ]
_He that will love life_ That would make life amiable and desirable; _and see good days_ Namely, such as are prosperous and happy; _let him refrain his tongue from evil_ From railing, back-biting, tale-bearing, from all rash and provoking expressions; _and his lips that they speak no guile_ No decei... [ Continue Reading ]
_But if you_ should _suffer_ If any should be so wicked as to endeavour to harm you when you are doing good; if your heathen rulers, or any others, should persecute you for righteousness' sake; that is, upon the account of your religion, because you follow Christ, and believe and obey his gospel; th... [ Continue Reading ]
_For it is_ infinitely _better, if the will of God be so_ That you should suffer; and his permissive will in this respect appears from his providence; _that ye suffer for well-doing_, rather _than for evil-doing_ The testimony of a good conscience, and the sense of the divine favour, affording the n... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 Father, who said, (Genesis 6:3,) referring to the men of that generation, _My Spirit shall not always... [ Continue Reading ]
_The like figure whereunto_ Αντιτυπον, _the antitype whereof_, that is, the thing which corresponds, not with the water, but with the ark; _even baptism doth now save us_ Or is the instrument of our safety and preservation, from the guilt, power, and consequences of sin, which overwhelms the world a... [ Continue Reading ]