By Silvanus, the faithful brother, as I suppose, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand. "Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; neither as being lords over God's heritage." The Lord spoke of a day when they should know it; but as yet the foundation was not even laid for it. "For he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin." They had now an offer of mercy; those that accepted of it should be saved, but those who rejected Christ and the gospel should be as certainly destroyed as ever the disobedient in the times of Noah were. This will not be the case when the Jews shall be brought back to the land. The total submission of the universe to Christ is woven into the thought of the New Testament. Sacrament is derived from the Latin sacramentum, which means a soldier's oath of loyalty on entering the army. Again, when Peter is talking about the banishing of fear, he is thinking of Isaiah 8:13, "But the Lord of hosts, him you shall regard as holy; let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.". The simple fact is that love of God and love of man go hand in hand; the one cannot exist without the other. words are to be understood of Christ's going to preach, by his There is, however, no specification of the place where this is; no intimation that it is purgatory - a place where the departed are supposed to undergo purification; no intimation that their condition can be affected by anything that we can do; no intimation that those particularly referred to differ in any sense from the others who are confined in that world; no hint that they can be released by any prayers or sacrifices of ours. So how we live is extremely important, just as important as what we say. (i) There are those who wish to eliminate it altogether. Nevertheless these "spirits" could still be angels. There may be a still more diffusive action of the Holy Ghost when He is shed upon all flesh, not merely as a sample, but to an extent (I do not say depth) beyond what was accomplished on the day of Pentecost. "Such expressions (he went) are often redundant in Greek. serving divers lusts and pleasures, to which they were in In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, At the same time the general principles of God are in nowise enfeebled by Christianity, but rather strengthened and cleared immensely. And so in the challenging of the authority, they then feel they have to assert their manhood. And interestingly enough, Sarah had and asserted her place, too. The answer is this: "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." It is clear then that the meaning attributed to "spirits in prison" turns altogether upon the fact of when the preaching was done. here, and delivered the souls of the Old Testament saints and Therefore, "If Christ is said by Paul to go and do, what he did by his apostles, Christ may with equal propriety be said by Peter to go and do what he did by Noah."[33]. But still, as far as unbelief does work, it is just so far death in effect. Will the dust praise thee? The plural "spirits" describes human beings only one other place in the New Testament (Hebrews 12:23), but it describes evil spirit beings frequently (Matthew 10:1; Mark 1:27; Mark 3:11; Mark 5:13; Mark 6:7: Luke 4:36; Luke 6:18; Acts 5:16; Revelation 16:13; et al.). The Jews had brought His government into contempt by their own rebellion against His name; and Jehovah Himself had found it morally needful to hand over His own nation into the power of their enemies. 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. Various forms of pregnant and brachylogical construction (Winer s Grammar, 66, 2; (less fully, Buttmann, 327 (282)); Bernhardy (1829), p. 348f): etc. was, that he existed in his divine nature before he was ton de ph obon auton me ph obhetge ( 2PAPS) mede tarachthete, ( 2PAPS) Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. As time went on, there emerged the idea of stages and divisions in this shadowland. On this is founded the spiritual priesthood, and in consequence we who are His draw near and offer up spiritual sacrifices. The Christian ethic never grants a privilege without a corresponding obligation. And so we find it in fact and in Scripture. For [it is] better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. Therefore, he is completely secure. What they were here directed to was to "feed the flock of God." "Evil for evil.". Holy Women Who Hoped in God Mother's Day. And you have become her children, if you do good, and if you do not become a prey to fluttering fears. It was a real inward and not merely external setting apart; it was through "sanctification of the Spirit." It means Jews, and none but Jews, who believe in the Lord Jesus. That is, our hope arises from being born anew and this new birth comes in some sense thru Jesus' resurrection. If that supposition meets the full force of the language, then no argument can be based on it in proof that he went to preach to them after their death, and while his body was lying in the grave. Peter here introduced more information about Jesus activity in His spirit (i.e., His post-resurrection sphere of life), in addition to what he said about His resurrection from the dead (1 Peter 3:18), to encourage his readers. (iii) The whole idea and effectiveness of baptism is dependent on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. "Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind." The more usual fault of those who copied the scriptures was that they added words. There is at least one passage in the Old Testament which lists the various items of female adornment and threatens the day of judgment in which they will be destroyed. Therefore there could be no comparison on that score, not even for a Jew. A cultivated Greek believed that it was the mark of an intelligent man that he was able to give and to receive a logos ( G3056) concerning his actions and belief. It may seem strange that Peter's advice to wives is six times as long as that to husbands. acc-pl-neu. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil ( 1 Peter 3:10-12 ). Whatever the form, God never gives up His righteous government, though there is His grace also. And so it's a word that has lost its meaning through the years when this translation was made. (2) The second interpretation--which is that of (practically) all the Fathers, and of Calvin, Luther (finally), Bellarmine, Bengel, and of most modern scholars--refers the passage to what our Lord did while His body was dead. 1 Peter 3:19 New International Version 19 After being made alive,[ a] he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits Read full chapter Footnotes 1 Peter 3:19 Or but made alive in the spirit, 19 in which also 1 Peter 3:19 in all English translations 1 Peter 2 1 Peter 4 New International Version (NIV) What had Christ not gone through in the same path? (2.) The question is not how far it is made good in the heart of the believer; for it really and equally embraces all believers. in It will be observed here that there are two motives to holiness: the first is that He has called us; the next, that we call Him, and this by the sweet and near title of Father. But in the destruction by the flood eight people--Noah and his wife, his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth, and their wives--were brought to safety in the ark. "Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations." This is what we've been called to do. This had nothing at all to do with atonement a supposition which only arises from people closing their eyes to other truths in the Bible, to their own great loss even in the truth they hold. The word rendered prison, ( phulake,) means properly watch, guard - the act of keeping watch, or the guard itself; then watchpost, or station; then a place where anyone is watched or guarded, as a prison; then a watch in the sense of a division of the night, as the morning watch. Take, for instance, the duty of obedience; the value of a gracious, peaceful walk here below; the degree of confidence in God. In the unbeliever, where it does work unhinderedly, the consequences are fatal and everlasting. The apostle Paul pressed on the Christian slave the beauty and responsibility of obedience; but Peter insists on it whether a man be a slave or not. Whose adorning let it not be that outward [adorning] of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, [even the ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. And she feels that security and she needs to feel that security. The point is this--as the Jews saw it, only the priests had the right of close access to God. To do so we must know what we believe; we must have thought it out; we must be able to state it intelligently and intelligibly. Cato the Censor insisted on simplicity; Lucius Valerius answered: "Why should men grudge women their ornaments and their dress? (iv) He lays it down that the work of Christ was to bring us to God. As Bigg puts it: "The sighs of the injured wife come between the husband's prayers and God's hearing." It was an imprecation of death on themselves from God if they violated His commandments. What am I going to do? Acts 2:27, as all the newer translations correctly show, should be translated not: "Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell," but, "Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Hades." ( Song of Solomon 1:1-3; Ephesians 5:22-33) 1 3668 [e] 1 Homois. For the time that is past is sufficient to have done what the Gentiles will to do, to have lived a life of licentiousness, lust, drunkenness, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatry. only to their responsibility, not to their faith; and if it be responsibility, whether to do the law or to believe the Messiah, it is all one as far as the result in man is concerned. souls of Old Testament saints were, before the death of Christ; The technical word for that question and answer clause is eperotema ( G1906) in Greek, stipulatio in Latin. If a man does not carry the sense in his soul that it is God's flock, I do not think he is fit to be an elder or in any other office of spiritual trust: he is far from the right ground for being a blessing to what, after all, is God's flock. We may put it this way. Indeed such difficulties serve to show where people are. they were sometimes so, yet to what purpose should this former Suffering is the way in which power in practice is found against the flesh; so that "he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God." 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. According to this none ought ever to speak unless he has a thorough conviction that he is giving out God's mind and message, as suited for that time and those souls. "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going" ( Ecclesiastes 9:10). (iii) His defence must be given with reverence. Who are the spirits who received a proclamation (1 Peter 3:19)? 1Pe 3:19 in which [fn] he went and proclaimed [fn] to the spirits in prison, Tools 1Pe 3:20 because [fn] they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. Is this, you know, do you like this outfit? And He preached to those souls that were in prison. The intention is just that you recognize that true beauty is inward. It supposes that the believer is brought out of all that is natural even as to the body that he is already changed into the likeness of Christ. desiring his coming, and which he, by some gracious "We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. I have no hesitation in saying that this is in my judgment what God said, if we are to be guided by the most ancient and best authorities.*. The Jews were all familiar with a ransom price that used to be paid in silver. We must first note that this phrase is very misleading. Now Peter is saying, Honor her knowing that she's weaker. The saints were chosen "according to the foreknowledge of God the Father;" for it was no question now of a Governor having a nation in whom He might display His wisdom, power, and righteous ways. Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith," not yet the body saved, but soul-salvation "the salvation of souls." (iv) Fourth, Peter sets compassion. And John got hold of her and dragged her off as she was railing, going around the corner, you know. If it were your heritage, you would have certain rights; but the truth is that he who stands in the position of an elder has no small responsibility. After the one, and before the other, the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven is the power of Christian blessedness, and as we know also of the church, no less than of preaching the gospel everywhere. They were the worst of all sinners and yet they were given another chance of repentance; therefore, the worst of men still have a chance in Christ. Hence, when he says it saves us, he necessarily brings in resurrection. So far was their believing in Christ from taking them out of the people, it is then alone that they became, a people. The flesh never counts on God for good. He alone was competent to suffer for sin. incarnate, he was before Abraham, he was in the days of Noah; and 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. "Heirs together. In fact, the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in no one but the Christian. Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures ( 1 Corinthians 15:3). human soul, but his divine nature meant, by the Spirit, by which The order here is precise and instructive. It is not often that words are thus left out. The real meaning may make the difficulty appear to be greater for a moment (as, I suppose, the truth often, if not always, does); but when received and understood, what has such strength of appeal to the conscience? He said they are in prison (cf. This is not by any means the only meaning of blood, even where it was sacrificially employed. Pearls were loved most of all. He shows that first of all there was this testimony of that which was not for themselves but for us, beginning of course with the converted Jewish remnant, these Christian Jews who believed the gospel which in principle belongs to us of the Gentiles just as much as to them. for the apostle prescribes two things: 1. consideration for the wife, as of the weaker sex: 2. honour for the wife, as a fellow-heir of the grace of life. It is by the silent preaching of the loveliness of her life that she must break down the barriers of prejudice and hostility, and win her husband for her new Master. Never should I for one blame their tenacity in adhering to the truth and duty of advancing in practical holiness, or what they call sanctification. This is Christianity. 1 Peter 1:12. "Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: who, when he was reviled, reviled not again." He is speaking about the people that heard Noah, and despised the word of the Lord then. I have quoted all these authorities from the most authentic and correct copies of the Vulgate, to show that from them there is no ground to believe that the text speaks of Christ's going to hell to preach the Gospel to the damned, or of his going to some feigned place where the souls of the patriarchs were detained, to whom he preached, and whom he delivered from that place and took with him to paradise, which the Romish Church holds as an article of faith. That is to say, it is not simply the blood of Christ, which indeed is never the meaning of baptism; still less is it the life of Christ: baptism means nothing of the sort. They're basic to a good marriage, because the more the wife submits to her husband, the easier he finds it to show his love. That we receive the peace we need as Christians is mainly connected, not with His coming out from God, but with His going back to God; as it is said here, "Who by him do believe in God that" what? 1:10 ). Simply to believe in Christ may make a man quite happy, but it never of itself gives solid unbreakable peace. There is not one of them who has not really sanctification of the Spirit They may be troubled as to the question of practical holiness, but the fundamental and essential sanctification of the Spirit is that which is already true of all the children of God. For it is better, if the will of God be so, that you suffer for well doing, than for evil doing ( 1 Peter 3:17 ). Indeed, it is too plain a fact for any one to dispute. Such is not., the topic of Peter; it had been given to another instrument more fitted for revealing the heavenly position of the believer. There is everything, as we have seen, to give not only faith and hope their full place, but also love. I have before me one of the first, if not the very first edition of the Latin Bible; and in it the verse stands thus: In quo et hiis, qui in carcere erant, SPIRITUALITER veniens praedicavit; "by which he came spiritually, and preached to them that were in prison.". We have seen that the attempt at the elimination of this passage fails. sometimes signify a watch, yet more commonly a prison, and which And was not this before he knew all the comfort and blessing of the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus? But against this view there are plain objections drawn from the language of Peter himself: (1) As we have seen, the fair interpretation of the passage quickened by the Spirit, is not that he was kept alive as to his human soul, but that he, after being dead, was made alive by his own divine energy. What brings a man into that peace which resists all efforts from without to take it, all weakness within in giving it up, is the certainty that all is clear with God. Submit yourself to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to king as supreme; governors, unto them sent toward the punishment of evildoers, so is the will of God, that in well doing you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men ( 1 Peter 2:13-15 ): So the idea of submitting to one another in love. In the Book of Enoch it is said that he was sent down from heaven to announce to these angels their final doom (Enoch 12: 1) and that he proclaimed that for them, because of their sin, there was neither peace nor forgiveness ever (Enoch 12 and 13). It is not that the Jews were not elect as a nation, but therein precisely it is where they stand in contrast with the Christian. Because they love what is right they may be persecuted by those who love what is wrong, but to suffer for such a reason is a cause for joy, not sorrow. Why? 16 having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in christ. it is the submission which is based on the death of pride and the desire to serve. 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. 1 Peter 4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit. The text of 1 Pet 3:19-20 is indeed difficult, but not incomprehensible. This, in fact, is a truth which is ingrained into the New Testament. She had no kind of independent existence and no kind of mind of her own, and her husband could divorce her almost at caprice, so long as he returned her dowry. From Philippi to Thessalonica Now note the shift back to the third person, which seems to signify that Luke stayed behind in Philippi to minister to the Church there. 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. God set them apart unto Himself by the effectual working of the Holy Ghost,. Before God we bow down in praise and adoration; before the world we are conscious of the glory grace has given us. Isaiah 49:9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. Were this felt adequately, would it not hinder a great many from speaking? NICZSB. It is easy to lose the sense of pity and still easier to be satisfied with a sentimentalism which feels a moment's comfortable sorrow and does nothing. So "bless those that curse you," Jesus said. nature; and that the Gospel was preached in those early times, as You're witnessing against yourself. (c) The context indicates that Christ was preaching through Noah, who was in a persecuted minority, and God saved Noah, which is similar to the situation in Peters time: Christ is now preaching the gospel through Peter and his readers (1 Peter 3:15) to a persecuted minority, and God will save them. This gives room for all the practical working of Christianity. The point that Peter is making is that, even if the Christian is compelled to suffer unjustly for his faith, he is only walking the way that his Lord and Saviour has already walked. They then ceased to be manifestly God's people. That is, "the eighth --eight souls saved by water," "The like figure", whereunto even baptism doth also now save us ( 1 Peter 3:21 ). In the narrow compass of these two verses Peter has the greatest and the deepest things to say about the work of Christ. The "spirits in prison" are mentioned in the broader context of suffering righteously. And more people are brought to Christ by the observing of the Christian life as you live it, than are converted through just someone laying the four spiritual laws on them.We were talking with a missionary who is in the Philippines and has a ministry basically to the Moslems. gain access to 50+ premium resources to enhance your study of Scripture. It has two vivid backgrounds. besides, the text says not one word of the delivering of these See Note 1 at end of the chapter. That government may differ in character and depth; there may be at a fitting moment a far closer dealing with souls (as undoubtedly this is the case since redemption). But if you're cold and aloof; this jerk making a stupid mistake and he's probably going to take off when he has lost everything. apostles, to the Gentiles, as in ( Ephesians Publius Sempronius Sophus divorced his wife because once she went to the public games. "Laying aside," he says, "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 to salvation." And when the Lord Jesus appears by and by, there will be not the gospel as it is now preached, nor the Holy Ghost as He is now sent down from heaven, but the word going forth and the Spirit poured out suitably to that day. Thus, Genesis 11:5, The Lord came down to see the city and the tower. Exodus 19:20, the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai. Numbers 11:25, the Lord came down in a cloud. 2 Samuel 22:10, he bowed the heavens and came down. The idea, however, would be conveyed by this language that he did this personally, or by himself, and not merely by employing the agency of another. He was put to death in the flesh, but he was raised to life in the Spirit, in which also he went and preached to the spirits who are in prison, the spirits who were once upon a time disobedient in the time when the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being built, in which some few--that is, eight souls--were brought in safety through the water. On reflection it will be evident that there is no instance so suitable as this for the argument in hand so few saved and so many perishing. On the Cross God dealt with man's sin in a way which is adequate for all sin, for all men, for all time. It was clearly the consequence of the Holy Ghost being given to him, but the gift of the Spirit is not the sanctification of the Spirit. They should also try to avoid all forms of wrongdoing. There can be no salvation without repentance but how can repentance come to those who have never been confronted with the love and holiness of God? And then the Lord said to the wives, "Submit yourself unto your own husbands" ( Ephesians 5:22 ). For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil." Christ the sufferer has become Christ the victor; Christ the crucified has become Christ the crowned. 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The event of all: Their bodies were drowned, and their spirits cast into hell, which is called a prison (Matthew 5:25; 2 Peter 2:4; 2 Peter 2:5); but Noah and his family, who believed and were obedient, were saved in the ark. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. Was the message brought to them while in prison, or at some previous period? There is an instance of what I referred to that the essential moral principles. This is exactly what modern presbyters think they may and ought to do every day of their lives. He tells her something very simple--nothing else than to be a good wife. The consequence is that all for ever is made clear and settled for those who believe in God, that our "faith and hope might be" not " in Christ," though it is so, assuredly, but more than this "in God." So God is often represented as coming, as descending, etc., when he brings a message to mankind. you are the daughters of Sarah, as long as you do well, and are not afraid with any amazement ( 1 Peter 3:6 ). There is a sense in which pity is in danger of becoming a lost virtue. It is tragic to realize how far men are from realizing this unity in their personal lives and how far the Church is from realizing it within herself. (4.) The very point of Christianity is this, that as to election it is personal strictly individual. He who was perfect Righteousness willingly suffered for totally unrighteous men. John Piper Sep . Still the Christian does need the effect of the resurrection of Jesus following up the sprinkling of His blood I do not say the resurrection without His blood, still less the glory without either. And the idea is to encourage the young men not to look for a pretty face but to look for a good cook.But the true beauty, beauty that doesn't fade, the beauty that grows with years is that inner beauty. Christ died once and for all for sins. Sin is that which interrupts the relationship which should exist between God and men. (iii) There is the attitude that what Peter is saying is that Jesus Christ, between his death and resurrection, went to the world of the dead and preached the gospel there. Where this is duly weighed, it is wonderful what a change is produced in the mind, tone, and temper a change both in those who tend the flock, and in those who are cared for; because then God is looked to, and there is no petty feeling of infringing the rights of man in one form or another. Through Christ we have access to grace ( Romans 5:2). 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