Obedience is always right, but not to man when he would force the dishonour of God. One must exercise and give oneself up to the cultivation of that gift which God has given. 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. A whole Christ is given and needed. He came to do the will of God, and this not as the law proposed, in order that it might be well with Him, and He might live long in the earth; He never had such a motive though He fulfilled the law perfectly. 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. This passage has lodged in the creed in the phrase: "He descended into hell." The order here is precise and instructive. Just so, Jesus Christ was speaking through Peters readers to their unbelieving persecutors as they bore witness for Him in a hostile world. This particular Greek word is a difficult word to translate. 3:17-18a For, it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be the will of God, than to suffer for doing wrong. That is, we have had accomplishment in the past; and we look for future fulfilment of all the bright anticipations of the coming kingdom. 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. Think of the power that brought it into existence. Take, for instance, the duty of obedience; the value of a gracious, peaceful walk here below; the degree of confidence in God. in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. "Whose adorning let it not be the outward adorning with the fancy hairstyles, the wearing of gold, putting on of fancy apparel.". (2.) It is clear then that the meaning attributed to "spirits in prison" turns altogether upon the fact of when the preaching was done. It is, therefore, better first of all to read it as a whole and then to study it in its various sections. The copy from which this translation was taken evidently read conclusi erdnt, with one of the MSS. In the thrilling early days of the Church this prayer was fulfilled, for they were all of one heart and of soul ( Acts 4:32). For the explication of this we may notice, (1.) *In fact but one uncial (Cod. 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. It is, however, too evident that there is nothing like incredulity for swallowing anything that panders to the first man, and leaving out the glory of the Second. though hell may be meant by the prison, yet the text does not say We are heirs together of the grace of life.". incarnate, he was before Abraham, he was in the days of Noah; and Indeed, it is too plain a fact for any one to dispute. Purple was the favourite colour for clothes. Others believe it happened during His ascension to heaven. A more probable explanation is that these "spirits" were the unbelievers who disobeyed God in Noahs day by rejecting his preaching. The word for "to bring" is prosagein ( G4317) . So don't lose hope. Least of all can the Jews be said to be sown in the land of Palestine. But on one thing we can agree--through what happened there we may enter into a new relationship with God. We do not wait for times and seasons. ungodly", ( 2 Peter 2:5 ) and Thus the Lord Jesus, being already come and about to come again, brings before us two of these stages, while the mission of the Holy Ghost for the gospel fills up the interval between them. Though the judicious Calmet holds with his Church this opinion, yet he cannot consider the text of St. Peter as a proof of it. As Charles Wesley put it in verse: And claim the crown, through Christ my own. He said they are in prison (cf. And it really ministered to me how that a soft answer turns away wrath. Baptism becomes a beautiful symbol of that. One sees alas! The hearers. And who is he that will harm you, if you are followers of that which is good? THE CHRISTIAN'S SECURITY IN A THREATENING WORLD ( 1 Peter 3:13-15 a). No particular stress should be laid here on the phrase he went. The literal sense is, he, having gone, preached, etc. He is speaking about the people that heard Noah, and despised the word of the Lord then. And was not this before he knew all the comfort and blessing of the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus? 3:3-6 Let not your adornment be an outward thing of braided hair and ornaments of gold and wearing of robes, but let it be an adornment of the inward personality of the heart, wrought by the unfading loveliness of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. They were redeemed then with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. But when it is a question of drawing near, let us not forget that we are a holy priesthood. WELLINGTON, July 9 Thus, as is known, the rejection of the Messiah was incomparably more fruitful of disastrous consequences to the Jew than even had been of old their breach of the divine law. Not only are they to be set publicly at the head of the nations, but God himself will link His own glory from above with them as His earthly people here below, and nothing but peace, righteousness, and plenty will be found all over the earth in that day of glory. 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. "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." From there, it next notes, "And when they had brought them." The wording makes it evident that the apostles freely went with the guards and that they were not bound or conducted . 1Peter 3:14 But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. As I go down in the water, it's being buried. It was an imprecation of death on themselves from God if they violated His commandments. And this is exceedingly interesting, because if the prophet be compared, it will be seen to illustrate what has been remarked before the difference between the present accomplishment made good in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, and the future fulfilment of the prophecies. Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; He went and preached unto the spirits in prison.--There are two main ways of interpreting this mysterious passage. (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. 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). Are thy wonders known in the darkness, or thy saving help in the land of forgetfulness?" The rest will die. Sympathy comes to the heart when Christ reigns there. You know you get out and rail at someone, this guy's going to pull a gun at you. sense best suits here; nor is that anxiety and uneasiness, which No debates have been so acrimonious as theological debates; no differences have caused such bitterness as religious differences. Some of those addressed were domestics, whether or not they were slaves. Any one who hates his brother is a murderer" ( 1 John 3:14-15). He went and preached By the ministry of Noah, one hundred and twenty years. 1 Peter 3:18-22 contain some very difficult exegetical problems. The preaching was in the days of Noah. We are thrown on mercy, as we ought to be; we look up in dependence on One who is incontestably above us, and withal infinitely near to us. but it will be difficult to show, that men, in the present state 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. In other words, Peter is not preaching something he didn't practice, but he did this very same thing himself. 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." It never places all the responsibility on one side. But, laying aside the physical categories of this doctrine, we can find in it truths which are eternally valid and precious, three in particular. He pleads with the quarrelling Corinthians that there should be no divisions among them and that they should be perfectly joined together in the same mind ( 1 Corinthians 1:10). Here Peter has certain things to say about this Christian defence. He went and preached, by his Spirit striving with them, and inspiring and enabling Enoch and Noah to plead with them, and preach righteousness to them, as 2 Peter 2:5. 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 . He was tenderhearted. Now, if Christ was not exempted from sufferings, why should Christians expect it? Nay, we have Christ Himself brought in to enforce and illustrate it. This is somewhat difficult for theology, because in general even intelligent and godly souls are much shut up in the prevalent commonplaces of men. Is thy steadfast love declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in Abaddon? The truth is that the assumption of "my flock," or "yours", is the root of endless mischief. of happiness; nor such a gracious manifestation so properly Sanctification of the Spirit is that primary action that was experienced before Saul entered into peace with God. 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. 1 Peter 3:19. 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. Matthew 9:13, but go and learn what that meaneth, etc. But then lest people make a mistake, he points out; it isn't the physical ritual. The Baptism Of The Christian ( 1 Peter 3:18-22). The saints are chosen through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience. I do not mean that they may not acquire previously a delusive glory; nor that the antichrist by fraud will not palm himself off as the Messiah, and settle some of them in the land, according toDaniel 11:1-45; Daniel 11:1-45. He said, Boy, you really handled that well, you know. It is evident that the Lord might come and make Himself visible only to those in whom He is distinctly interested, and who are themselves personally associated with Him; and such, I have no doubt, is the truth of scripture. Scripture: 1 Peter 3:9. 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. But if a wife became a Christian while her husband did not, she was taking a step which was unprecedented and which produced the acutest problems. The flesh never counts on God for good. Here Peter sees the bringing safely through the waters of Noah and his family as a type of baptism. 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]. . 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. "Heirs together. Quintilian, the Roman master of oratory, wrote: "A tasteful and magnificent dress, as the Greek poet tells us, lends added dignity to the wearer: but effeminate and luxurious apparel fails to adorn the body, and only reveals the sordidness of the mind." In this case, then, it seems to me that the order is divinely perfect, and manifestly so. All this time they are not a people; they are dependent on the will of their Gentile masters. sense of the words is, that Christ, by his Spirit, by which he Such was Hades, into which the spirits of all men went after death. "Whom," says he, "having not seen, ye love." 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. In Greek this had a specialized meaning. But there is more than this: it was no longer a question of ordinances visibly separating those subject to them from the rest of the world. Christ died once and for all for sins. Cato the Censor, the typical ancient Roman, wrote: "If you were to catch your wife in an act of infidelity, you can kill her with impunity without a trial." Others feel He announced condemnation to the unbelievers. This is the reason why the appearing of Jesus is brought in here. 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 the constant and notorious source of the difficulties that one has continually to contend with, because feelings are roused by this all sorts of jealousies and wounded feelings are created by a position so false. His explanation was that, since most manuscript copying was done to dictation, scribes were, very liable to miss words which followed each other, if they, en ( G1722) ho ( G3588) kai ( G2532) and Enoch ( G1802), sound very much alike, and Rendel Harris thought it very likely. In the top line in italic print, we have set down, the Greek of the passage in English lettering and beneath each, thanatotheis ( G2289) men ( G3303) sarki ( G4561), zoopoietheis ( G2227) de ( G1161) pneumati ( G4151), en ( G1722) ho ( G3588) kai ( G2532) tois ( G3588), en ( G1722) phulake ( G5438) pneumasi ( G4151). But the lower obedience is absorbed by the higher one when they come into collision; and this is the only seeming exception. Instead of improving the intelligibility of the passage (as a co. Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary 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. Not rendering evil for evil ( 1 Peter 3:9 ), Now that's what the natural man would like to do, isn't it? And this "prison" must not be understood (with Bp. This, then, may serve to show the true nature of Christianity, which, coming in after redemption, is founded on it, and forms in us heavenly associations and hopes while Jesus is away, and we are waiting for Him to return. How little, it seems, the Old Testament prophets understood their own prophecies! But in the consideration of the text of any Greek author, scholars sometimes use a process called emendation. Peter speaks of them as they were when he wrote; not as they had been, or were at the time when the message was preached to them. I do not say that there are no limits. The true beauty is an inner beauty, not an outward beauty. Peter does not tell the wife to preach or to argue. That is to say, Peter is laying it down that the death of Christ is the sacrifice which atones for the sin of men. The question is not how far it is made good in the heart of the believer; for it really and equally embraces all believers. So he says these very spirits which are spoken of were "once disobedient, when the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing, wherein few, that is eight souls, were saved through water.". The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away; but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. They were prepared to take their lives in their hands, to sacrifice ease and comfort, home and loved ones, in their passionate love for their country. All unbelief therefore will be shown plainly to be of the flesh, not of the Spirit, and never excusable. But in this case they omitted. Christ gave himself for our sins ( Galatians 1:4). The saints, then, are "kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation." (4) This interpretation accords with the design of the apostle in inculcating the duty of patience and forbearance in trials; in encouraging those whom he addressed to be patient in their persecutions. It is no longer relationship with and recognition of a God that rules and governs. The difference is this. But mark, "To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they did minister the things which are now reported to you in virtue of the Holy Ghost sent from heaven. For it is hardly necessary to say to any intelligent believer, that whatever may be the new privileges, and consequently fresh duties which flow from them, there are certain unchangeable moral principles to which God holds throughout all time. (2.) Wigs were worn, especially blonde wigs, which are found even in the Christian catacombs; and hair to manufacture them was imported from Germany, and even from as far away as India. Supposing God only gave the believer according to his own thoughts (often meagre); supposing one believed in the power of the precious blood of Jesus ever so truly, and had nothing more than this our real portion by the Spirit, such an one, I maintain, would be a sorry Christian indeed. There is no force in that argument, the Christian can reply; for, when the flood came, only a few were saved after all, as is shown by the first book of Moses, their own indisputably inspired history. I am not speaking of a particular doctrine. 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. Next follows the salutation, "Grace unto you, and peace," the usual Christian or apostolic style of address. 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. Unto Christ's obedience and the sprinkling of His blood; for "Jesus Christ" belongs to both these clauses. Thus, for instance, Saul of Tarsus had this sanctification of the Spirit the moment that, struck down to the earth, he received the testimony of the Lord speaking from heaven. 19In which also coming he preached to those spirits that were in prison: 19After being made alive,[a] he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits(A), Public Domain (Why are modern Bible translations copyrighted?). The plain and easy sense of the words is, that Christ, by his Spirit, by which he was quickened, went in the ministry of Noah, the preacher of righteousness, and preached both by words and deeds, by the personal ministry of Noah, and by the building of the ark, to that generation who was then in being; and who being disobedient, and continuing so, a flood was brought upon them which destroyed them all; and whose spirits, or separate souls, were then in the prison of hell, so the Syriac version renders it, , "in hell", see Revelation 20:7 when the Apostle Peter wrote this epistle; so that Christ neither went into this prison, nor preached in it, nor to spirits that were then in it when he preached, but to persons alive in the days of Noah, and who being disobedient, when they died, their separate souls were put into prison, and there they were when the apostle wrote: from whence we learn, that Christ was, that he existed in his divine nature before he was incarnate, he was before Abraham, he was in the days of Noah; and that Christ also, under the Old Testament, acted the part of a Mediator, in his divine nature, and by his Spirit discharged that branch of it, his prophetic office, before he appeared in human nature; and that the Gospel was preached in those early times, as unto Abraham, so before him. And Rendel Harris thought that this passage referred, not to Jesus, but to Enoch, and Moffatt so far agreed with him as to put Enoch into his translation. (c) If Christ descended into Hades and preached there, there is no corner of the universe into which the message of grace has not come. It is almost impossible for us to realize what life must have been for the wife who was brave enough to become a Christian. And this by Christ's work is made good for us, because the very one that became responsible for our sins on the cross is in glory now. He went to preach to "the spirits in prison." But, he said, in order to convert a Moslem, they must see Christianity in action in your life. So Bloomfield maintains, (in loc.,) and so (Ecumenius and Cyril, as quoted by Bloomfield. To him be the glory and the might for the ages of the ages. A very important development follows in the next verses. 1 PETER 3:19 evn w|- kai, Several scholars have advocated the conjectural emendation that introduces the subject "Enoch" (enwkaienw,). Scripture 1 Peter 3 Sort Bible Verse. It is clearly seen how he treats these Jews, and what they used to boast of. "When he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously; who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree." (iv) The only compelling argument is the argument of the Christian life. 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. Another ancient MS. in my possession has the words nearly as in the printed copy: In quo et hiis qui in carcere CONCLUSI erant SPIRITUALITER veniens praedicavit; "in which, coming spiritually, he preached to those who were SHUT UP in prison.". When did Jesus make this proclamation? This morning, she came as I was greeting people at the end of the second service. These were the jewels which adorned the holy women of old. Its full meaning is met by the interpretation that Christ once preached to the spirits then in prison, to wit, in the days of Noah; that is, that he caused a divine message to be borne to them. This word introduces us to a special way of looking at the Old Testament. 4. Certainly the Jews of old were rarely good subjects. (1) The Descent Into Hell ( 1 Peter 3:18 b-20;4:6). Christ, upon his death, went in his human soul to hell; either, Salvation is here viewed as not yet come. Were this felt adequately, would it not hinder a great many from speaking? In the believer the evil heart of unbelief is modified necessarily by the fact that, believing on Christ, he has everlasting life. 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