(1) Elect according to the (a) foreknowledge of God the Father, through (b) sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. (1) Peter purposing to speak of the duties of a Christian life, reasons first of the princi... [ Continue Reading ]
Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a (c) lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, (c) Everlasting hope.... [ Continue Reading ]
(2) Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the (d) last time. (2) Now he shows by what way we come to that glory, that is, through all types of afflictions. Wherein nonetheless faith maketh us so secure, that we are not overcome with sorrow. But throug... [ Continue Reading ]
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the (e) appearing of Jesus Christ: (e) He speaks of the second coming of Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
(3) Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace [that should come] unto you: (3) He makes a difference between true faith, that is to say, that faith which only has an eye to the doctrine of the prophets and apostles, and false faith. Afterward... [ Continue Reading ]
Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost (f) sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. (f) He alludes to the prophecy of... [ Continue Reading ]
(4) Wherefore (g) gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and (5) hope (h) to the end for the grace (6) that is to be brought unto you (7) at the revelation of Jesus Christ; (4) He goes from faith to hope, which is indeed a companion that cannot be separated from faith. He uses an argument taken... [ Continue Reading ]
(8) As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: (8) He passes from faith and hope, to the fruits of them both, which are understood in the name of obedience. It consists in two things, in renouncing our lusts, and living godly: which lusts have t... [ Continue Reading ]
(9) Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. (9) He shows that sanctification does necessarily follow adoption.... [ Continue Reading ]
(10) And if ye (i) 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: (10) As before he distinguished true faith and hope from false, so does he now obedience, setting the quick and sharp sight of God, against a... [ Continue Reading ]
(11) Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain conversation [received] by tradition from your fathers; (11) An exhortation, in which he sets forth the excellency and greatness of the benefit of God the Father in sanctifying us by th... [ Continue Reading ]
(12) Who verily was foreordained before the (k) foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, (12) The taking away of an objection: what was done to the world, before Christ was sent into the world? was there no holiness before, and was there no Church? The apostle answers,... [ Continue Reading ]
(13) Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently: (13) He commends the practice of obedience, that is, charity: earnestly repeating again, that he speaks not of any common... [ Continue Reading ]
(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, because men, though their glory may not be great, are by nature void of all true and sound goodnes... [ Continue Reading ]
(15) But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. (15) Again lest any man should seek that spiritual force and virtue in feigned imaginations, the apostle calls us back to the word of God: teaching us furthermore, that there is no other... [ Continue Reading ]