1 peter 3:19 greek

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. Nor is there a doubt but that the holy fathers in life, as well as after death, directed their thoughts to this object. The name of Enoch does not appear in any Greek manuscript. To bring us to God. 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. "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." Having a good conscience; that, whereas they may speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good behavior in Christ ( 1 Peter 3:16 ). 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. 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. (v) When we go beyond these two verses, further into the passage, we can add two more great truths to Peter's view of the work of Christ. Amplified: If you are censured and suffer abuse [because you bear] the name of Christ, blessed [are youhappy, fortunate, to be envied, with life-joy, and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of your outward condition], because the Spirit of glory, the Spirit of God, is resting upon you. Those addressed from among the Jews were among the chosen ones, "elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father.". The meaning in that sense I take to be this: that the people formally pledged themselves to legal obedience, and bound themselves in this solemn manner to obey. The specification in the next verse determines this. To "the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot." rendered, instead of "in prison": and said to be in such a Let him meet criticism with a life which is beyond reproach. "The church," as such, does not come in till the end of the first chapter. Undoubtedly there was always a secret election of saints after the fall and long before the call of Abraham and his seed; but now the choice of saints was to be made a manifest thing, a testimony before men, though of course not till glory come absolutely perfect. Simply to believe in Christ may make a man quite happy, but it never of itself gives solid unbreakable peace. The true drift is this "Nor as lording it over your possessions." They should also try to avoid all forms of wrongdoing. The conditions of our own age tend to blunt the edge of the mind to sensitiveness in pity. It was not necessary to speak of them precisely as they were at the time when it was delivered, but only in such a way as to identify them. Nevertheless obedience abides the principle of the Christian. Why is it that you are not upset over this? You see, God created you in the beginning for fellowship. "No particular stress should be laid on the clause he went. The case for Christianity must be presented with winsomeness and with love, and with that wise tolerance which realizes that it is not given to any man to possess the whole truth. This I have long believed to be the sense of this difficult passage, and no other that I have seen is so consistent with the whole scope of the place. But, laying aside the physical categories of this doctrine, we can find in it truths which are eternally valid and precious, three in particular. This passage, therefore, cannot be adduced to support the Roman Catholic doctrine of purgatory, because: (1)The essential ideas which enter into the doctrine of purgatory are not to be found in the word used here; (2)There is no evidence in the fair interpretation of the passage that any message is borne to them while in prison; (3)There is not the slightest hint that they can be released by any prayers or offerings of those who dwell on the earth. (iv) He lays it down that the work of Christ was to bring us to God. The New Testament says this same thing often. I mean, it wasn't a --it was a two-way street. By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; "By which" refers to the Holy Spirit of verse 18. Here it is a pain to be obliged once more to make a depreciatory remark on our common English version. (ii) Second, Peter sets sympathy. I will set down his own words: Le sentiment qui veut que Jesus Christ soit descendu aux enfers, pour annoncer sa venue aux anciens patriarches, et pour les tirer de cette espece de prison, ou ils Pattendoient si long tems, est indubitable; et nous le regardons comme un article de notre foi: mais on peut douter que ce soit le sens de Saint Pierre en cet endroit. But then, to what are they sanctified of the Holy Ghost thus? This is not the. For he that will love life, and see good days ( 1 Peter 3:10 ), Now here Peter goes back and just quotes a portion out of the psalms. Such unity will only come when Christians are humble and bold enough to lay hold on the unity already given in Christ and to take it more seriously than their own self-importance and sin, and to make of these deep differences of doctrine, which originate in our imperfect understanding of the Gospel and which we dare not belittle, not an excuse for letting go of one another or staying apart, but rather an incentive for a more earnest seeking in fellowship together to hear and obey the voice of Christ." The point is this--as the Jews saw it, only the priests had the right of close access to God. In 1 Peter 3:19 he says that Jesus preached to the spirits in prison; and in 1 Peter 4:6 he says that the gospel was preached to them that are dead. So man fell into sin; as the result, lost fellowship with God. Even in the Jewish synagogue they had no share in the service, and in the orthodox synagogue still have none. We can all understand this: holiness, when one has to do with God; royalty, before the world when the temptation is to forget our heavenly honour. Of uncertain affinity; to herald, especially divine truth. It is practical; and holiness costs suffering in this world. So how we live is extremely important, just as important as what we say. . There are those who constantly think and speak of sanctification as practical holiness, and exclusively so. "Do good to those who despitefully use you" ( Matthew 5:44 ). I admit that what is in the Bible requires faith; and this is as it should be. does struggle to have its own way. And I was going down Fairview and one of these hippies pulled out in front of me. When a man is roused to hate his sins through God's testimony reaching him, and convicting him before God, and not in his own eyes, when a man is ashamed of all that he has been in presence of God's grace, ever so little known and understood, still where a real work goes on in the soul, sanctification of the Spirit is true there. When the Christian remembers his dependence on God and keeps before him the standard of Christ, he must remain humble. Another MS., written about A. D. 1370, is the same as the printed copy. That very system of reason that makes so much of the will of man, and is not a little proud of it, would deprive God Himself of a will, and under penalty of man's accusation of injustice forbids its exercise according to His own pleasure. (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. Hebrew Names Version Chapter Parallel 1 Peter 3:19 (HNV) in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison, We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ once and for all ( Hebrews 10:10). In this I, for one, do not believe. "And Enoch walked with God; and he was not; for God took him" ( Genesis 5:24). prison, and were saved; though these are manifestly distinguished Have you ever imagined how much power that must be? Peace be with you all in Christ Jesus.". The, the definite article. So far was their believing in Christ from taking them out of the people, it is then alone that they became, a people. In the case of the Christian all is changed. At the court of kings there was an official called the prosagogeus, the introducer, the giver of access, and it was his function to decide who should be admitted to the king's presence and who should be kept out. It was to the purpose to direct them to the fact that he was saved as the result of his steadfastness to Him who had commanded him to preach to that ungodly generation. But, besides this, what a spring is conveyed to the soul by the sense that his life is the life of Jesus in resurrection. Similar imports of luxury came from Arabia. The rite of baptism doesn't save. 1 Peter 3 Wives 1 In the same way, you wives must accept the authority of your husbands. The outcome of the submission, 1 Peter 3:6b 2. Whence is the power or the growth in holiness? Is thy steadfast love declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in Abaddon? It is the submission not of fear but of perfect love. 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. 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. "Such expressions (he went) are often redundant in Greek. And this hippie kid, you know the beard and the whole thing, got out of his van and he looked back at me and just came with a peace sign, you know.You know suddenly I felt real terrible about laying on my horn and the attitude that I had. 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. For in Christianity, it removes any kind of barriers that exists between people. In our case it is all through Jesus. 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. 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. He wanted you to be one with Him, but a holy, pure, righteous God cannot be a part of sin, inconsistent with the nature of God. The whole attitude of ancient civilization was that no woman could dare take any decision for herself. This is both true and important in its place. And who is he that will harm you, if you are followers of that which is good? Those who hold this view often go on to say that, because of Christ, there is now no time spent in the shadows of Hades and the way to paradise is open as soon as this world closes on us. (3.) carries on the same idea, of not exacting too rigid accounts, as on 1 peter 3:6 ; , , he went and preached to them: and as for the ends proposed, the He went, not by a local motion, but by special operation, as God is frequently said to move, Genesis 11:5; Hosea 5:15; Micah 1:3. It was not Noah's own spirit that preached; it was the Spirit of Christ. Start your free trial today! 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. This would completely do away with the idea of the descent into Hades. For less than $5/mo. There is no kind of a hierarchy in the spiritual realm. I'll get even with you. It is an effectual work of God's Spirit from the very starting-point of the career of faith. In regard to the inquiry, then, who these spirits were, there can be no difference of opinion. The more seriously we take the New Testament, the more urgent and painful becomes our sense of the sinfulness of the divisions, and the more earnest our prayers and strivings after the peace and unity of the Church on earth. We have got used to the idea of millions of people becoming refugees." Thus the passage is altogether dissociated from the doctrine of the descent into hell; and the sense (though not the Greek) would be better expressed by writing, He had gone and preached unto the spirits (now) in prison. As C. E. B. Cranfield puts it: "We got used to hearing on the radio of a thousand-bomber raid as we ate our breakfast. He is no longer waiting for the sprinkling of that precious blood, he is already sprinkled with it before God. We must always distinguish the ability of the man from the spiritual gift which the Lord gives; and, besides both, there is also the right use of the gift. To this double motive there is added another consideration on which it all rests, and without which neither of these things could be. This is the most natural construction to put upon the words "in which also" (i.e., in spirit). preached to the spirits -- The [best] interpretation understands spirits (Gk. Such labour is no modern thing. It was inevitable that one marriage partner might be won for Christ, while the other remained untouched by the appeal of the gospel; and such a situation inevitably had difficulties. Undue interest in self-adornment was then, as it still is, a sign that the person who indulged in it had no greater things to occupy her mind. situation, because they were intent upon the hope of promised former is impracticable and impossible; for after death follows So "be full of pity", or another translation of the Greek word is tenderhearted. There is nothing contrary to sound truth or principle in that, but indeed a very great defect in those who do not believe it; in fact, it is flying in the face of scripture. It seems to me that rather means a watchtower in which watchmen stand for the purpose of watching, or the very act of watching, for it is often so taken by Greek authors; and the meaning would be very appropriate, that godly souls were watching in hope of the salvation promised them, as though they saw it afar off. were when the apostle wrote: from whence we learn, that Christ Baptism becomes a beautiful symbol of that. [Note: E.g., Michaels, pp. It is another character and measure of responsibility. But this interpretation cannot stand; it is indeed inconsistent with the words of the passage, for Peter ascribes salvation only to the family of Noah, and gives over to ruin all who were not within the ark. No debates have been so acrimonious as theological debates; no differences have caused such bitterness as religious differences. Isaiah 42:7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. 1Peter 3:14 But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. All on which one could look with delight and praise was concentrated in His own person. Struma Nonius had a ring valued at 21,250 British pounds. (Men ( G3303) and de ( G1161) are what are called particles; they are not translated but merely mark the contrast between, sarki, G4561, and pneumati, G4151) . apostles, to the Gentiles, as in ( Ephesians Let a man so act that his conscience is clear. This attitude--and it is that of some very great New Testament interpreters--believes that Peter is indeed saying that Jesus went to Hades and preached, but that he by no means preached to all the inhabitants of Hades. One pound weight of the best Tyrian purple wool, strained twice through, cost 1,000 denarii, 43.50 British pounds. And Abraham, though it hurt him, got rid of Hagar and Ishmael. How little, it seems, the Old Testament prophets understood their own prophecies! In this passage Peter has three great things to say about baptism. With Jesus victory over death, their condemnation was sealed. He may have done this either by His resurrection itself or by some special announcement to them. them all; and whose spirits, or separate souls, were then in the The preacher--Christ Jesus, who has interested himself in the affairs of the church and of the world ever since he was first promised to Adam, Genesis 3:15. 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. 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. souls of Old Testament saints were, before the death of Christ; ", Carefully observe that Peter does not say that Christ went to prison and preached to the spirits there. They "prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching), what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories after these." (b) It has a Greek background. 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. It is granted that there is a sanctification in scripture which bears on practice. To what did it all point? That the Spirit of God did strive with, convict, and reprove the antediluvians, is evident from Genesis 6:3: My Spirit shall not always strive with man, forasmuch as he is flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord ( 1 Peter 3:5-6 ): Now I don't expect that you women are going to go this far as to call your husbands "lord", unless it's tongue-in-cheek. Publius Sempronius Sophus divorced his wife because once she went to the public games. "There are as many ways to the stars as there are men to climb them." 206-13.] The Romanists say that it was while in prison; that Christ, after he was put to death in the body, was still kept alive in his spirit, and went and proclaimed his gospel to those who were in prison. "The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the request. As Charles Wesley put it in verse: And claim the crown, through Christ my own. 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. In addition, such a conjecture should make the text intelligible. A more probable explanation is that these "spirits" were the unbelievers who disobeyed God in Noahs day by rejecting his preaching. But it may be inquired, Why he puts in prison the souls of the godly after having quitted their bodies? "If any man speak, [let it be] as oracles of God; if any man minister, [let it be] as of the ability which God giveth." We must first note what he does not advise. 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. He tells her something very simple--nothing else than to be a good wife. The notion has but to be mentioned to be rejected with horror; but it may be pointed out also that in 1Peter 4:6, which refers back to this passage, it is distinctly called a "gospel;" and it would be too grim to call that a gospel which (in Calvin's words) "made it more clear and patent to them that they were shut out from all salvation!" When one member of the body suffers all the other members suffer with it; and when one member is honoured, all the members rejoice with it ( 1 Corinthians 12:26), and it must be so with Christians, who are the body of Christ. In this he takes exactly the same attitude as Paul takes ( 1 Corinthians 7:13-16). After this episode which has to do with men here, not in the unseen world, he returns to the relative duties of Christians, and exhorts them to watchfulness with sobriety, to fervent love, and also to "use hospitality one to another without grudging." 1 Likewise. ", 1 Peter 2:1-25. His traditions wrap him up in fog. At the same time, the day is not yet come for the fulfilment of the prophecies as a whole. Certainly such is not the teaching of God's word anywhere, still less is it what the apostle Peter insists on here. And she's always fishing for "Honey, you're beautiful. So long as the self is the most important thing in the world, there can be no such thing as sympathy; sympathy depends on the willingness to forget self and to identify oneself with the pains and sorrows of others. patriarchs from thence, and carried them with him to heaven; but In the believer the evil heart of unbelief is modified necessarily by the fact that, believing on Christ, he has everlasting life. I mean, here's a --here's a kid, you know, high in LSD telling me, Peace, brother. The true beauty isn't that which you put on outwardly but the true beauty is that which is inward, which shines out.I do not believe that Peter is intending here to issue a prohibition against the ladies looking nice. Do you accept its privileges and promises, and do you undertake its responsibilities and its demands?" He went and preached By the ministry of Noah, one hundred and twenty years. They did not think in terms of heaven and of hell but of a shadowy world, where the spirits of men moved like grey ghosts in an everlasting twilight and where there was neither strength nor joy. 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? Accordingly their land became the possession of the Gentiles; and so it has gone on to this day. 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 ). It never places all the responsibility on one side. 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. 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 intention is just that you recognize that true beauty is inward. THE SILENT PREACHING OF A LOVELY LIFE ( 1 Peter 3:1-2 ). It is not so much that he actually quotes them, as that he could not have written the passage at all unless the Old Testament had been in his mind. 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. For Christ also died once and for all for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. whereas real service of the saints is as precious in its place as any speaking can be. saints, who were (en (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. When they were admitted to the synagogue at all, they were segregated from the men and hidden behind a screen. And water now saves you, who were symbolically represented in Noah and his company, I mean the water of baptism; and baptism is not merely the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge to God of a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who is at the right hand of God, because he went to heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been made subject to him. Some advocates of this view say this took place in hell between His crucifixion and His resurrection. It doesn't hurt, but it pays big dividends. In the world of the Greeks and the Romans it is interesting to collect the references to personal adornments. From phulasso; a guarding or, the act, the person; figuratively, the place, the condition, or, the time, literally or figuratively. The argument is that before Christ that was indeed so but he opened the gates of heaven to mankind; and, when he did so, he went to Hades and told the glad news to all the righteous men of all past generations and led them out to God. The Christian must go through the mental and spiritual toil of thinking out his faith, so that he can tell what he believes and why. All this will come in due time, and it may be very rapidly, even the self-same hour; but the very first thing that a soul born of God feels is the desire at all cost to do the will of God.