HATH CEASED FROM SIN] cp. Romans 6:2; Romans 6:11. Suffering braces a man's mind, so that temptation loses its power over him, and the opposition of the heathen compelled Christians to be strangers to their mode of life: cp. Sir 17:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SECURITY OF THE FAITHFUL IN THE APPROACHING JUDGMENT _C_ (ii). 1 Peter 4:1. 'This is your faith: live then in accordance with it. Arm yourselves against your troubles by resolving to be like Christ in suffering. Suffering gives rest from sin, and the results of what you have already endured shou... [ Continue Reading ]
WILL] RV 'desire,' contrasted with the will of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPEAKING EVIL OF _you_] 'Of you,' as RV shows, is not in the Gk. These men spoke the same kind of blasphemy as the mockers in 2 Peter 3:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
This V. refers back to 1 Peter 3:19. The dead are the same persons in each place. Judgment does not mean punishment, but separation, and man, by choosing His side, cooperates with God's judgment. This choice and separation could not, St. Peter considers, be made until the gospel had been heard. Thus... [ Continue Reading ]
PRAYER] RM 'Gr. prayers.' Neither the sensible conduct of affairs nor the regular course of the Church's devotions is to be changed.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVE FERVENT CHARITY] RV 'being fervent in your love,' lit. 'intense'; perseverance and vigour, not excitement, is implied. SHALL COVER THE MULTITUDE OF SINS] 'covereth a multitude of sins,' from Proverbs 10:12, which is also quoted James 5:20. St. Peter gives, following our Lord's teaching (cp. Lu... [ Continue Reading ]
_LET HIM SPEAK_ AS THE ORACLES OF GOD] RV '_speaking_ as it were oracles of God,' i.e. God's solemn utterances, such as the prophets used to introduce by 'thus saith the Lord.' God's oracles had always been entrusted to His people to minister to others: cp. Acts 7:38; Romans 3:2; Hebrews 5:12. AMEN]... [ Continue Reading ]
IF YE BE REPROACHED] RV 'are reproached.' This part of their trial had already come. Cp. Psalms 89:51. THE SPIRIT OF GLORY AND OF GOD] RV 'the _Spirit_ of glory and the Spirit of God,' double title of the one Spirit.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHRISTIAN] a name which the heathen first gave the disciples: see Acts 11:26; Acts 26:28. ON THIS BEHALF] RV 'in this name' 17. Cp. Ezekiel 9:6..... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Proverbs 11:31.... [ Continue Reading ]