For the explication of this we may notice, (1.) No Christian should think or talk about a right of ministry; for although liberty of ministry may be legitimate enough in itself, still I think it is a phrase apt to be misunderstood. The Christian does not belong to the world, and consequently is not bound by accidents of time. Perhaps it is needless to say how the heart is tried. Such a man is desperately easily hurt. 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. 206-13.] They, like the fallen angels, were then "spirits in prison." Someone once asked her: "Why do you remain faithful to that ugly little man you married?" This is the most natural construction to put upon the words "in which also" (i.e., in spirit). saints, who were (en The mark of the Christian is that he forgives others as God has forgiven him ( Ephesians 4:32). They too, those who had been before them, had been put to the proof in this way. The word of God, prayer, the use that we make of the opportunities that His goodness affords us, both public and private, all the means that teach and exercise us in the will of God no doubt contribute to this practical holiness. It is plain that, if God foreordained it, He at the same time took care to act on it, and this is long before either Judaism or the law. Antistius Vetus divorced his wife because he saw her secretly speaking to a freed woman in public. "The phrase in the days of Noah may well be based on the Gospel tradition and on Jesus analogy between Noahs time and the time immediately preceding the end of the age (cf. In regard to this doctrine there have always been differing attitudes amongst thinkers. They have to bear in mind first that the flock is God's. Still others hold that He announced good news to the saved among them. character which will not agree with righteous men, and prophets, to save by translating into etc. I'm thinking about a television station locally here. 1 Peter 3:18-22 contain some very difficult exegetical problems. For, in the nature of things, he may lose these things at any moment. So how we live is extremely important, just as important as what we say. He then says, that Christ did not rise only for himself, but that he made known to others the same . For it was thus in days of old the holy women, who placed their hopes in God, adorned themselves in submission to their husbands. In this passage we can see how Peter was soaked in the Old Testament; there are two Old Testament foundations for it. And this was an important point; for the Jews reasoned, that because God brings out one thing today, He could not bring out another tomorrow. 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Read full chapter. 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. Then Peter reveals that Jesus' sacrificial death was as a substitutethe righteous (Christ) for the unrighteous (us). No doubt as far as it goes it is all-important, nor could any one be a Christian without it. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Greet ye one another with a kiss of love. One thing is clear, sympathy and selfishness cannot coexist. And in the act of being baptized the man answered: "Yes.". To him be the glory and the might for the ages of the ages. 19 In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison . Immediately the idea of being brought to safety through the water turns Peter's thoughts to Christian baptism, which is also a bringing to safety through the water. While He was here, there was a kind of mingled experience. For Christ communicated a new nature which loves to obey God's will, which accordingly is given us from conversion, before (and it may be long before) a person enjoys peace. 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. (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. If they despised it, they none the less suffered the consequences. It declares that the Christian man has a new place and standing not in the first Adam at all, but in the Second in the presence of God man without sin, and accepted according to the acceptance of Christ before God. The ritual itself cannot save me. 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. 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. Upgrade to Bible Gateway Plus to get the best value in digital Bible study. There is given to the soul of him who thus rests on God's power keeping him a wholly different tone from that of the man who thinks of his own perseverance as a saint. "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." 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. It is used in the Old Testament of bringing to God those who are to be priests. So it is the lifestyle, the way we live becomes the witness of what we declare.One of the weaknesses of the church is the lack of the positive lifestyle of the believer, professing one thing and living another. Thirdly, it seems very strange, that Peter, speaking of the apostles, should immediately, as though forgetting himself, go back to the time of Noah. Peter is, in effect, saying that in baptism God said to the man coming direct from heathenism: "Do you accept the terms of my service? So then, according to Jewish legend, Enoch did go to Hades and preach doom to the fallen angels. Nothing of the sort is ever said in God's word but what excludes it. The Jewish conception of the world after death was of this grey world of shadows and forgetfulness, in which men were separated from life and light and God. the covenants of promise, and destitute of the hope of salvation, represents them as in a prison, so applicable to souls in a state "If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar" ( 1 John 4:20). Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation [coupled] with fear. (1) The spirits are understood as being now in prison, in consequence of having rejected His preaching to them while they were still on earth. Perhaps their enemies will see that they are persecuting without cause, and so feel ashamed of themselves (16-17).As Peter thinks about those who suffer for doing good, he is reminded of the perfect example, Jesus Christ. "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." The first impulse of a converted man is to do the will of God. 449-50; Raymer, pp. Israel must wait; but we do not. Thus he loves to bring out again confirmatorily the new relationship in which they stood to God. She was entirely subject to her husband and completely at his mercy. Though the judicious Calmet holds with his Church this opinion, yet he cannot consider the text of St. Peter as a proof of it. Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures ( 1 Corinthians 15:3). A tyrian cloak of the best purple cost well over 100 British pounds. But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy [are ye:] and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled; But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: 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. The saints are chosen through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience. But they both suppose an open door for ministry among Christians in the Christian assembly. That's always a better thing. And who is he that will harm you, if you are followers of that which is good? 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. When the suffering is part of the human situation, it still cannot despoil him of the most precious things in life. What they were here directed to was to "feed the flock of God." judgment, which is an eternal one; nor is there any salvation, or 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. But there is that which never fails, "the power of God through faith," by which the believer is kept to the end. So opening the prison. But if it is not union with Christ, if not our full place in Him before God, there is a clear statement of our hope of heaven. The simplest test of the reality of the Christianity of a man or a Church is whether or not it makes them love their fellow-men. In divine things it is precisely what shows the power and special character of a Christian's faith. California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. It is not a question of merely having license. *In fact but one uncial (Cod. But if it means that he preached to those who lived in the days of Noah, while they were yet alive, the question will be asked why are they called spirits?. They were apt to rise against oppression and to fail in obedience to a superior, at least among the heathen. I repeat, it is God's flock, not yours; and you are not to lord over it as if it were your own belongings. International Standard Version. If you say that practical holiness precedes the being brought under the blood of Jesus, I ask, How is one to become holy? The purposes of God was thwarted by sinful man.So in order that man might have fellowship with God, these purposes of God restored, Jesus suffered once for our sins, "the just for the unjust", that He might be able to bring you to God. We have got used to the idea of millions of people becoming refugees." They were that wicked race which lived in the days of Noah. "For there is neither male nor female, bond or free: Christ is all and in all" ( Colossians 3:11 ). 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. But he triumphed over death. The partaking of the bread and the cup, if you --if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, you're actually partaking your own damnation. The doctrine of the descent into Hades conserves the precious truth that no man who ever lived is left without a sight of Christ and without the offer of the salvation of God. Thus he shows that even if you look at those that are dead, there was no difference. in which also to the spirits in prison having gone he did preach, 2. Monday, 7 March 2022 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear. The ancient moralists condemned undue luxury as much as the Christian teachers did. With this object in view, there was entire propriety in directing them to the long-suffering and forbearance evinced by the Saviour, through Noah. It is as if God had purposely put verse 11 to negative the conclusions which men have drawn from a misunderstanding of verse 10. In this case, however, it is difficult to see the purpose of the digression, or what could have brought the subject into St. Peter's mind. And here is the wonderful infatuation of unbelief. Why was there the mighty action of the Spirit of God producing such various gifts for profit if they did not create the responsibility to exercise them? No particular stress should be laid here on the phrase he went. The literal sense is, he, having gone, preached, etc. Having been made alive by the Holy Ghost Christ went "In the spirit," that is, in the spiritual form of life, in that part that cannot be put to death, in this way he "entered upon a journey" to accomplish a particular task. The epistle to the Hebrews of all the Pauline epistles is that which most approaches the testimony of Peter, and coalescing in it to a large extent. He translates: "In the flesh he (Christ) was put to death, but he came to life in the Spirit. Who told you this? 3:7 Likewise, you husbands, live understandingly with your wives, remembering that women are the weaker sex and assigning honour to them as fellow-heirs of the grace of life, so that there may be no barrier to your prayers. The obvious problem with this view is that Peter linked these people with Noah. There may be unpopularity, persecution, sacrifice for principle and the deliberate choosing of the difficult way, the necessary discipline and toil of the Christian life. It is implied in the expression, as already remarked, that he did this himself; that it was the Son of God who subsequently became incarnate, and not the Holy Spirit, that did this; though the language is consistent with the supposition that he did it by the instrumentality of another, to wit, Noah. The apostle passes from the example of Christ to that of the old world, and sets before the Jews, to whom he wrote, the different event of those who believed and obeyed Christ preaching by Noah, from those that continued disobedient and unbelieving, intimating to the Jews that they were under a like sentence. It is a rejected Messiah who is the proper object of the Christian's love, though he never beheld Him; and who while unseen becomes so much the more simply and unmixedly the object of his faith, and withal the spring of "joy unspeakable and full of glory.". I mean, it wasn't a --it was a two-way street. He brought good tidings, therefore, of some kind to the "prison" and the spirits in it. And it was by this Spirit that Noah became a preacher of righteousness, and condemned that ungodly world, Hebrews 11:7, who would not believe till wrath-Divine punishment, came upon them to the uttermost. It really is founded on the death of Christ; and therein further our due place is shown us by His resurrection. The Greek more precisely reads, "Now Herod had been very angry with the . is future, would have coalesced, so; far as this could have been; but two distinct comings of the Lord (one past, and the other future) have broken up the matter into these separate parts. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. 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. He was about to be a sacrifice for sin, giving Himself up spite of suffering, not only from man, but from 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." let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him turn away from evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and pursue it. The identity of the "spirits in prison" is problematic. On the other method of interpretation, we can suggest a reason why they were particularly specified. For three days and nights, as we all know, he neither ate nor drank. There is another possibility, namely, that the whole antediluvian world to whom the preaching was directed were said by Peter in this passage to have been "in prison" at the time of the preaching of Noah. Some wish to eliminate it altogether and attempt to do so along two lines. Now that word has changed in the usage, too. Peace be with you all in Christ Jesus.". In this case then we have the Christian by divine grace possessed of a new nature which loves to obey. was quickened, went in the ministry of Noah, the preacher of In our case it is all through Jesus. But in the consideration of the text of any Greek author, scholars sometimes use a process called emendation. All unbelief therefore will be shown plainly to be of the flesh, not of the Spirit, and never excusable. All through the New Testament rings this plea for Christian unity. That is an extremely interesting and ingenious suggestion but without doubt it must be rejected. alive in the days of Noah, and who being disobedient, when they It so happens that in the Greek version of the Old Testament the regular phrase for a sin-offering is peri ( G4012) hamartias ( G266) (Hamartias, G266, is the singular of hamartion, G266) , as, for instance, in Leviticus 5:7 and Leviticus 6:30. That only creates, you know, that only builds and let's you read, you know --there's so many nuts on the highway today. Several reasons support this view: (a) Peter calls Noah a herald of righteousness (2 Peter 2:5), where herald represents Greek kryx, preacher, which corresponds to the noun kryss, proclaim, in 1 Peter 3:19. Earrings were made of pearls and Seneca spoke of women with two or three fortunes in their ears. Why are modern Bible translations copyrighted. Let the truth that follows about the suffering of Christ serve to encourage you. 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. The Spirit by which the preaching in view here was done was the blessed Holy Spirit, by whom and through whom all the preaching has been done throughout the ages. I. 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. 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. Just you know, if he had gotten out railing, I'm sure I would have jumped out of the car and ran up and grabbed him and told him what a stupid move that was, you know. God is so patient that he waited for 120 years before sending the Flood in Noahs day (Genesis 6:3). But we did not finish that quotation and we do so now: "If you were to catch your wife in an act of infidelity, you can kill her with impunity without a trial; but, if she were to catch you, she would not venture to touch you with her finger and, indeed, she has no right." The less secure she feels, the more she challenges your decision. When she was under her father she was under the patria potestas, the father's power, which gave the father the right even of life and death over her; and when she married she passed equally into the power of her husband. It was no new thought. He does not advise the wife to leave her husband. We do not hear now of the gift of the Spirit. Let it be observed here that ministry is distinguished from speaking. "He that would love life, and see good days,". I have lost the cream of my congregation." They were redeemed then with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. Why? Scripture 1 Peter 3 Sort Bible Verse. Let it then be well borne in mind, that God holds fast that which He has laid down for all that are His as to the moral government of God. 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? Understanding and considerateness had forged an unbreakable bond. Now that's a peculiar phrase, "Not afraid with any terror," and I don't understand what Peter is saying by that. opinion, that this is meant of the souls of the Old Testament Why is it that you are not upset over this? There are two closely connected 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. It is a mistake to construe it of one that knows not what took place in the lower parts of the earth. 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. Now, when a conscience is touched by the Holy Spirit, what is it that satisfies such a conscience? That ethic is what may be called a reciprocal ethic. What, then, can they do but devote their time to adornment and to dress?" So Herodotus, to these things they spake, saying - for they said. (2) If the meaning be that he went and preached after his death, it seems difficult to know why the reference is to those only who had been disobedient in the days of Noah. Why were they alone selected for this message? Noah faced the same type of opposition in his day that Peters original readers did in theirs and we do in ours. 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]. They were held captive. They are waiting there for the day of judgment. you are the daughters of Sarah, as long as you do well, and are not afraid with any amazement ( 1 Peter 3:6 ). Do you accept its privileges and promises, and do you undertake its responsibilities and its demands?" Men may be wooed into the Christian faith when they cannot be bullied into it. This is not the. It was no afterthought, but His settled plan. Getting along; you know our prayer life can be hindered by friction within the home. If he once suffered, and then entered into glory, shall not we be patient under trouble, since it will be but a little time and we shall follow him to glory? And this "prison" must not be understood (with Bp. But there are some problems with this theory. 19 After being made alive,[ a] he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits 20 to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In addition, such a conjecture should make the text intelligible. Are they separate from others? The merit and perfection of Christ's sacrifice were such that for him to suffer once was enough. Here it is a pain to be obliged once more to make a depreciatory remark on our common English version. The Baptism Of The Christian ( 1 Peter 3:18-22). He is speaking about the people that heard Noah, and despised the word of the Lord then. As I go down in the water, it's being buried. This is the reason why he connects it with the appearing of Jesus Christ. "A saint," as someone has said, "is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God. 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. At its simplest, the doctrine of the descent into Hades lays down the complete identity of Christ with our human condition, even to the experience of death. It is granted that there is a sanctification in scripture which bears on practice. It is Jesus Christ, through what he did, who gives men access to God. It is an effectual work of God's Spirit from the very starting-point of the career of faith. As we are told here, "Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing," no wonder he adds, "ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory." How much we are indebted to the Spirit who now reveals a Christ already come! In 1Pe 1:3, Peter says, "we are born anew to a living hope thru the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. The one cannot exist without the other; it is only when we forgive others their sins against us that we are forgiven our sins against God ( Matthew 6:12; Matthew 6:14-15). AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR INTIMIDATION, AND DO NOT BE TROUBLED, ( NASB: Lockman) Greek: all' ei kai paschoite ( 2PPAO) dia dikaiosunen, makarioi. Whilst the Lord was here, it is ignorance and error to call such a state of things, however blessed and needed, Christianity. It never places all the responsibility on one side. Peter now reminded his readers of the consequences of Jesus response to unjustified persecution. "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. By this will all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another" ( John 13:34-35). "In which" refers back to the spiritual sphere of life in which Jesus Christ now lives (1 Peter 3:18). We ought to be seeking to bring blessings to people. With this he is intended to start as a Christian; he begins his career with that blessed shelter which tells him that, although he has entered on the path of Christian obedience, he is a forgiven and justified man in the sight of God. A remnant, it is true, had been brought up from Babylon for the purpose of being tested by a new trial by the presentation of the Messiah to them; but alas! Were this felt adequately, would it not hinder a great many from speaking? Christianity accordingly, it will be observed, comes in between these two extremes after the first, and before the second, coming of Christ; and this is exactly what Peter shows us in this epistle. He is going to judge them in the next world. (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. Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition Update. . (a) If Christ descended into Hades, then his death was no sham. 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. (ii) He lays it down that that sacrifice was for sin. According to Christian light nothing will do but ability to stand before the glory of God. This is because the wife's position was far more difficult than that of the husband. There is a sense in which pity is in danger of becoming a lost virtue. Spirit; nor is there any such place as here feigned, in which the 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. In every business contract there was a definite question and answer which made the contract binding. The Christian is humble because he is constantly aware of his utter dependence on God and that of himself he can do nothing. The Jews were all familiar with a ransom price that used to be paid in silver. 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. Here we have the first great primary fact, that the Christian Jew does not belong any more to the elect nation; but is taken out of this his former position, and is elect after a wholly new sort. 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. This will not be the case when the Jews shall be brought back to the land. Others feel He announced condemnation to the unbelievers. Both Paul and Peter are quite sure that the Christian wife must remain with the heathen husband so long as he does not send her away. It comes, second, from the fact that the Christian has a new standard of comparison. But should I never get around to being baptized by some unfortunate accident or circumstances of some kind, I will still be saved. (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. But as the obscurity of this passage has produced, as usual, various explanations, I shall first disprove what has been brought forward by some, and secondly, we shall seek its genuine and true meaning. Even the kingdom on earth does not suffice. The plain and easy Nehemiah 9:30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands. The conditions of our own age tend to blunt the edge of the mind to sensitiveness in pity. 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