Those who died in faith went to the place of comfort and were comforted by father Abraham. of patriarchs from thence, and carried them with him to heaven; but This is precisely what those who contend against the truth of election always feel most: they will allow a sort of body in a general way to be elect, and then that the individuals who compose that body must be brought in, as it were, conditionally, according to their good conduct. The modern parallel is entering upon full membership of the Church. word Enoch ( G1802) had dropped out. Persons ought not to speak unless they have a certainty that what they wish to say is not only true (this is not what is said) but the actual will of God nor the occasion. For Christ also died once and for all for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. "Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the appearing of Jesus Christ." Do you accept its privileges and promises, and do you undertake its responsibilities and its demands?" Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, NT Letters: 1 Peter 3:19 In which he also went and preached (1 Pet. The simple idea is that of persons confined as in a prison; and the passage will prove only that in the time when the apostle wrote there were those wire were thus confined. With this object in view, there was entire propriety in directing them to the long-suffering and forbearance evinced by the Saviour, through Noah. Christ, at his death, went in his human soul, into a place they The effect of sin is always alienation from God. Noah was preaching a message that God had given him, and in this sense Jesus Christ spoke through him (cf. I mean, it wasn't a --it was a two-way street. Though the patience of God wait long upon sinners, yet it will expire at last; it is beneath the majesty of the great God always to wait upon man in vain. But while fully looking for this, it is sweet to see the place of the believing Jew now as divine wisdom here applies Hosea, mutatis mutandis. "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" It was to them that Enoch did, in fact, preach; and there are those who think that what this passage means is not that Christ preached mercy and another chance; but that, in token of his complete triumph, he preached terrible doom to those angels who had sinned. To all men he brought the new relationship between man and God; in his death he even brought the good news to the dead; in his resurrection he conquered death; even the angelic and the demonic powers are subject to him; and he shares the very power and throne of God. [Note: E.g., Bigg, p. No such idea is traceable in the word of God. To be reviled was a pain to which as domestics they would be particularly exposed, as well as to suffer in all sorts of ways. In the believer the evil heart of unbelief is modified necessarily by the fact that, believing on Christ, he has everlasting life. "Baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the request of a good conscience toward God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.". 2. The word we have translated an ardent lover is zelotes ( G2207) ; which is often translated Zealot. I pray that God will always grant to me a tender heart, a heart of compassion. (b) Peter says the Spirit of Christ was speaking through the OT prophets (1 Peter 1:11); thus Christ could have been speaking through Noah as an OT prophet. One thing is clear, sympathy and selfishness cannot coexist. It belongs to the condition in which man is that, being fallen, and yet having a conscience of the good that alas! And preached - The word used here ( ekeruxen) is of a general character, meaning to make a proclamation of any kind, as a crier does, or to deliver a message, and does not necessarily imply that it was the gospel which was preached, nor does it determine anything in regard to the nature of the message. NICZSB. When He left the earth, especially as the Crucified, then indeed there was room for faith; and nothing but faith received, appreciated, and enjoyed all. (iv) Unless a man fulfils these obligations, there is a barrier between his prayers and God. Salvation is here viewed as not yet come. The purpose of the cross is to put away our sin, which had separated us from God. May 11, 1986. of happiness; nor such a gracious manifestation so properly According to Christian light nothing will do but ability to stand before the glory of God. acc-pl-fem. And if ye call on the Father" that is, if ye call on Him as Father "who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear: 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; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God." If it speaks of the duties of slaves, it speaks also of the obligations of masters. But what will not men believe, provided it be not in the Bible? There are those who constantly think and speak of sanctification as practical holiness, and exclusively so. Sep 19, 2015. Publius Sempronius Sophus divorced his wife because once she went to the public games. Any one who hates his brother is a murderer" ( 1 John 3:14-15). In this passage we can see how Peter was soaked in the Old Testament; there are two Old Testament foundations for it. That does not mean that the like-mindedness we are to strive for is to be a drab uniformity of the sort beloved of bureaucrats. The flesh never counts on God for good. It is into this very snare that unbelief has brought men in Christendom. First Peter 3:18-20 says, "For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark . I shall discuss these views in the exposition to follow. Grace and peace be yours in abundance. I do not believe in these glory-men, or resurrection-men either, without the blood of Jesus; but, on the other hand, as little are we in scripture limited to that most wonderful of all foundations redemption through Christ Jesus our Lord. "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. And so we find it in fact and in Scripture. There is another sense of salvation, and our apostle, as we shall shortly find, does not in anywise ignore it; but then he qualifies the term. That is, "the eighth --eight souls saved by water," "The like figure", whereunto even baptism doth also now save us ( 1 Peter 3:21 ). What, then, must have been the problems of the wife who became a Christian while her husband remained faithful to the ancestral gods? sometimes signify a watch, yet more commonly a prison, and which Christianity came into a world of luxury and decadence combined. It never places all the responsibility on one side. Those spirits had led people to rebel against God (as, for example, in the time of Noah; see Genesis 6:1-8), but Christ has now conquered all sin and rebellion. In this case then we have the Christian by divine grace possessed of a new nature which loves to obey. Slippers were encrusted with them; Nero even had a room whose walls were covered with them. So when He said, "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church" ( Ephesians 5:25 ), He knew that a woman's greatest need was that of knowing that she is loved supremely by her husband. You see, God created you in the beginning for fellowship. Peter turns to the domestic problems which Christianity inevitably produced. I'll get even with you. It is well known that such expressions are often redundant in Greek writers, as in others. The fault is in denying the other and yet more fundamental sense of sanctification here shown by Peter in its right relation to obedience. And, indeed, you find this not merely in Peter but in Paul. What he refers to is the loss of their title to be the people of God, which Israel sustained at the time of the Babylonish captivity. God would not wait much longer upon them. There are three obvious inquiries in ascertaining its signification. Unto the spirits in prison The inhabitants of the antediluvian world, who, having been disobedient, and convicted of the most flagrant transgressions against God, were sentenced by his just law to destruction. It is argued that what this means is that it was in the time of Noah himself that Christ did this preaching; that in the Spirit long ages before this he made his appeal to the wicked men of Noah's day. "She that was at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you." And this is fortified, singular to say, (but confirming what has been already remarked) by the Psalms. They were apt to rise against oppression and to fail in obedience to a superior, at least among the heathen. Wherever the saints have shown faith or unbelief, whether hindered by the world, the flesh, or the devil, whatever the particular snare that has drawn them aside, all will be made plain then. Because of it, all who trust in Christ are brought to His Father. 1 PETER 3:19 evn w|- kai, Several scholars have advocated the conjectural emendation that introduces the subject "Enoch" (enwkaienw,). knowing that you are thereunto called, that you should inherit a blessing ( 1 Peter 3:9 ). So you, husbands don't try to pounce on this scripture and use it as a club to beat your wives in submission. He went and preached unto the spirits in prison. "As each man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. . You may have the real substance of the truth, but you cannot have it in all official propriety at the present time. Thus he says, "The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us." "Heirs together. This too is of the greatest importance for us all to remember and seek to realize by faith. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. (iv) Fourth, Peter sets compassion. The elders are told to feed or shepherd the flock of God which was among them, exercising the oversight, not by necessity, but willingly; not for base gain, but readily, etc. though hell may be meant by the prison, yet the text does not say The first impulse of a converted man is to do the will of God. The Zealots were the fanatical patriots, who were pledged to liberate their native land by every possible means. 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 sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. The time past might well suffice for the wretched gratification of self. They see Him doing so through Noah. II. . They are scattered over the earth, and can find no rest for their souls, any more than their feet. Then he begins his exhortations, and first of all with the personal snares of every day, with what the Christian had to contend with in himself. Although this passage is one of the most difficult in the New Testament, it begins with something which anyone can understand. Oh boy, what that does then is just compound the insecurity of the wife that cause her to challenge you in the first place. And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins." Christ died once and for all for sins. Bengel speaks of "the labour bestowed on dress which consumes much time." And the answer, before witnesses was: "Yes." And I was greeting couple of young men first time they were here, and they were telling me how much they enjoyed the service. No ability constitutes a gift; but the spiritual gift does not supersede natural ability, which becomes the channel of the gift, as the gift is given and works in accordance with that ability. Couple of Sundays ago, she was throwing clay pots out on the patio railing. (vi) Peter sees the work of Christ in terms of complete triumph. The rest of the chapter consists of exhortations to the younger ones, and finally to all, with a prayer that "the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered a while, himself shall make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. Hence, if any received the gospel, they were delivered from judgment, and lived according to God in the Spirit. It is granted that, even in connection with spiritual gift in the way of speaking, there is such a thing as the natural ability of the person taken into account; but this is not the gift, though it be the suited vehicle for it. 1P iP i Pet). That is an extremely interesting and ingenious suggestion but without doubt it must be rejected. The sin of these people: They were disobedient, that is, rebellious, unpersuadable, and unbelieving, as the word signifies; this their sin is aggravated from the patience and long-suffering of God (which once waited upon them for 120 years together), while Noah was preparing the ark, and by that, as well as by his preaching, giving them fair warning of what was coming upon them. Now practical holiness follows our being sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ, whereas the sanctification of the Spirit of which Peter here treats precedes it. Anybody could get to Him. Why did He do it? In two very ancient MSS. There was the best and weightiest reason for this, because the nature thus produced in them is this holy nature that comes by grace from God Himself. 19By 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, as Paul shews in Romans 5:5. But in the consideration of the text of any Greek author, scholars sometimes use a process called emendation. It was an individual and not a church that was referred to. The spirits of disobedient sinners, as soon as they are out of their bodies, are committed to the prison of hell, whence there is no redemption. There are three distinct truths in these verses, as has been often remarked, and most clearly, as we have seen. What reason is there for bringing Enoch ( G1802) into this passage at all? It is He that raises the question of conscience in His sight, and this is so much the more dreadful, because when renewed we know better our own subtlety and His unstained essential holiness. Such was, unhindered by imperfection, the obedience of Jesus. And He preached to those souls that were in prison. He's giving you just one so you can't forget. That He might be able to wash and cleanse you from your sin in order that you might have the purposes of God accomplished in your life as you fellowship with God. In the case of the Christian all is changed. does struggle to have its own way. Who are referred to by spirits? This alone restores the balance; and thus we are taken out of all conceit of our own stability. Women did not share in the worship of the Greeks and the Romans. Give her that security; give her that strength. He who does not love remains in death. Nevertheless the apostle there claims the most unqualified subjection to the powers that be. In giving two rules, He keeps it simple so that it's almost impossible to say, Well, I forgot the rule. This is the important difference here revealed. In the ancient world chivalry to women was well-nigh unknown. This accordingly gave occasion for God to exercise a new kind of choice. That would be the best sermon she could preach to win her husband for Christ. So when He died, He descended into hell. There is a wider and, if possible, a deeper thought than the measure of our walk, which, after all, differs in all the children of God, no two being exactly the same, and all of us depending on self-judgment as well as growth in the knowledge of the Lord and of His grace. And I was going down Fairview and one of these hippies pulled out in front of me. "Dost thou work wonders for the dead? It does not seem to be of such prime importance that much need be said. The man that would make all his scripture to be the epistle to the Ephesians would soon find himself in want of Peter. Again we have an exhortation to the elders (1 Peter 5:1-14). It is a solemn warning to unbelief founded on plainly revealed facts before all eyes in this world, and not something to be understood as relating to another world. sense best suits here; nor is that anxiety and uneasiness, which But we've come to, you know, think of pitiful, as you know a poor cat that's lost an eye or something. It is good that we should feel that it is unbelief, and that unbelief can produce nothing but death. And so it's important that there be a harmony within the house. Pity is of the very essence of God and compassion of the very being of Jesus Christ; a pity so great that God sent his only Son to die for men, a compassion so intense that it took Christ to the Cross. We cannot very well apply this question and answer in infant baptism, unless it be to the parents; but, as we have said, baptism in the very early church was of adult men and women coming spontaneously from heathenism into the Church. opinion, that this is meant of the souls of the Old Testament I don't think that this is a prohibition as some have interpreted it to be of wearing gold apparel or things of this nature. What makes you different? That is, we have had accomplishment in the past; and we look for future fulfilment of all the bright anticipations of the coming kingdom. Now I do not believe there ever can be settled peace in a man's soul till he has confidence in God Himself, according to the truth of His raising up Christ from the dead. So how we live is extremely important, just as important as what we say. Somerset Maugham's mother was a very beautiful woman with the world at her feet but his father was unhandsome. But then lest people make a mistake, he points out; it isn't the physical ritual. In 1Pe 1:3, Peter says, "we are born anew to a living hope thru the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Every time they let her out, she comes around here and rails on me. Abraham's bosom, inheriting the promises, and not in a prison; Why even your dog has a will; and I am sure you have a will yourselves. You know you get out and rail at someone, this guy's going to pull a gun at you. There we have not merely the blessed Saviour who in unspeakable love comes down and attracts the heart, and searches the conscience, but He settles all for us with God by redemption. In regard to this doctrine there have always been differing attitudes amongst thinkers. Maybe some of you have some ideas you can share with me.Having devoted six verses to the wives, he now devotes one to the husband. As a matter of fact, "he went and preached" is just a Biblical way of saying he preached. Christian forgets his proper dignity. He is keeping up the link with saints of old by a general principle. That's always a better thing. Now you may be baptized by sprinkling, by dunking, by full immersion, and still not be saved. In a hostile and suspicious world it was inevitable that the Christian would be called upon to defend the faith he held and the hope by which he lived. A whole Christ is given and needed. The obligation of the husband,1 Peter 3:7 E. The appeal for becoming corporate conduct, 1 Peter 3:8-12 1. The Christian does not belong to the world, and consequently is not bound by accidents of time. It was a real inward and not merely external setting apart; it was through "sanctification of the Spirit." It is almost impossible for us to realize what life must have been for the wife who was brave enough to become a Christian. So anybody who's looking for the superior sex or anything else, you will never find it in Christianity. died, their separate souls were put into prison, and there they Nor is there any reason to fear that silence in such a case would inflict a real loss on the church of God. But none of these wonders of grace could have been, unless by redemption we receive the end of our faith meanwhile, namely, soul-salvation. Certainly such is not the teaching of God's word anywhere, still less is it what the apostle Peter insists on here. No doubt as far as it goes it is all-important, nor could any one be a Christian without it. and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you for the reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and reverence ( 1 Peter 3:15 ): So live the kind of a life that is an example that will provoke people to question you. And then he takes up what is distinctly spiritual power, which should be used not in charity only but with conscience before God, and for His glory through our Lord Jesus. What is he talking about? Here Peter has certain things to say about this Christian defence. The word for "to bring" is prosagein ( G4317) . "Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope perfectly," etc. Indeed such difficulties serve to show where people are. It is an effectual work of God's Spirit from the very starting-point of the career of faith. Their attitude is that anyone who does not agree with them is either a fool or a knave and they seek to ram their beliefs down other people's throats. In this I, for one, do not believe. The appearing of Jesus is exclusively when the Lord will make Himself visible, and be seen by every eye. This ought to be the spring of all our confidence, even in God Himself, with His own power preserving us. He is sprinkled with Christ's blood, which gives him confidence and boldness in faith before God, because he knows the certainty of the love that has put away his sins by blood. Understanding and considerateness had forged an unbreakable bond. Let her feel the protection; let her feel secure; your big, strong arm around her. The unbelievers who heard Christs preaching did not obey in the days of Noah (1 Peter 3:20) and are now suffering judgment (they are spirits in prison, v. 19). From the time that this new nature is given, the purpose of the heart is to obey. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven" ( Matthew 5:11-12 ). Are they separate from others? If you yield to nature, you gratify it; but if you suffer in refusing its wishes, then "he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin." Unto Christ's obedience and the sprinkling of His blood; for "Jesus Christ" belongs to both these clauses. The mark of the Christian is that he forgives others as God has forgiven him ( Ephesians 4:32). This at once gives us a true and vivid picture of what Christianity is, of signal importance for the Jews to weigh, because they always looked forward for a visible Messiah, the royal Son of David the object, no doubt, of all reverence, homage, and loyalty for all Israel. He alone was competent to suffer for sin. That is, the holiness of the Christian is fuller, and deeper than that of the Jew. The example of Christ is proposed as an argument for patience under sufferings, the strength of which will be discerned if we consider the several points contained in the words; observe therefore, 1. in A man may have more than one attitude to goodness. Confound the one with the other and you upset the gospel: distinguish sanctification in principle from the beginning for all from sanctification in practice in the various measures of believers, and you learn the truth of what Peter here teaches, which is forgotten for the most part in Christendom. We saw in a similarly characteristic way in the epistle of James the connection of his moral aim with teaching. Revelation 20:11-15). And here I'm supposed to be a minister telling people how to have peace, and I'm all upset because of this stupid move of his. They are not yet finished; and they must be punctually fulfilled. but it would be tedious to reckon up the several different senses of this place; some referring it to such in Noah's time, to whom the Gospel was preached, and who repented; and though they suffered in their bodies, in the general deluge, yet their souls were saved; whereas the apostle calls them all, "the world of the ungodly", 2 Peter 2:5 and others, to the eight souls that were shut up in the ark, as in a prison, and were saved; though these are manifestly distinguished in the text from the disobedient spirits. "Whom," says he, "having not seen, ye love." When a man for instance turns to God, when he has faith in Jesus, when he repents towards God, even though it may be faith but little developed or exercised, and although the repentance may be comparatively superficial (yet I am supposing now real faith and repentance through the action of the Holy Ghost), these are the tokens of the Spirit's sanctification. Unto the spirits in prison - That is, clearly, to the spirits now in prison, for this is the fair meaning of the passage. You see that's what it's actually saying, pity-full. ( Psalms 88:10-12). Now that word has changed in the usage, too. It says that Jesus went and preached to the spirits who are in prison ( 1 Peter 3:19); and it speaks of the gospel being preached to the dead ( 1 Peter 4:6). 1. 1 . Mediator, in his divine nature, and by his Spirit discharged that Thus he says to the Jews addressed that they were not a people (that is, in the days of their unbelief), but are now. He that would love life, And see good days, Let him keep his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking guile: Let him turn away from evil and do right; Let him seek peace, and pursue it, For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears are open to their prayer; But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil. sin, and had been for long time past foolish and disobedient, There we have not union with the Head, but "the heavenly calling;" and substantially the latter line of truth is that which we have in 1 Peter. Therefore be would have them know that, as to the novelty with which they reproach Christianity, it was altogether a mistake; for the Lamb without blemish and without spot, though only lately slain, was foreordained before the foundation of the world. Some think the whole passage applies to the preaching of the Gospel to the Gentiles; but the interpretation given above appears to me, after the fullest consideration, to be the most consistent and rational, as I have already remarked. It is beyond cavil that the many perished then, and still fewer were saved than the Christian Jews at that time. 1 Peter 3:19 English Standard Version 19 in which[ a] he went and proclaimed[ b] to the spirits in prison, Read full chapter Footnotes 1 Peter 3:19 Or the Spirit, in whom 1 Peter 3:19 Or preached 1 Peter 3:19 in all English translations 1 Peter 2 1 Peter 4 English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Why? Here in Christianity emerged the revolutionary principle that women had equal spiritual rights and with that the relationship between the sexes was changed. THE CHRISTIAN ARGUMENT FOR CHRIST ( 1 Peter 3:15 b-16). 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