needless. I haven't found any biblical evidence for that conclusion. For, in the nature of things, he may lose these things at any moment. For Christ also died once and for all for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. This also is a very important point of difference for the Christian, on which it will be desirable to speak presently. 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. 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. Christ died once and for all for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. of
There was the best and weightiest reason for this, because the nature thus produced in them is this holy nature that comes by grace from God Himself. And this is what Peter immediately enlarges on. The elders are told to feed or shepherd the flock of God which was among them, exercising the oversight, not by necessity, but willingly; not for base gain, but readily, etc. 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. Such is Christianity. ", Carefully observe that Peter does not say that Christ went to prison and preached to the spirits there. 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. Thus he loves to bring out again confirmatorily the new relationship in which they stood to God. This may be in various measures, and therefore no more is meant than so far as want of faith is allowed to work. 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. This is the important difference here revealed. In 1 Peter 5:1-14 we read, "The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you;" but all concede that the terms " the church that is " have been put in by the translators: they have no authority whatever. Such will be "that day," and of that day Hosea prophesies. Peter here spoke of them, by way of identification, as "spirits in prison"; but there is not a line in this passage which requires us to believe that Christ preached personally to those "spirits in prison" during the three days his body lay in the tomb! God set them apart unto Himself by the effectual working of the Holy Ghost,. Thence, we see, they did speak of these very things. Finally a warning is given as to the importance of suffering according to God's will, committing meanwhile their souls in well-doing to Him as a faithful Creator. But we've come to, you know, think of pitiful, as you know a poor cat that's lost an eye or something. The old life just being buried; and as I come up out of the water, it's that new life in the Spirit, in Christ. If that is what he meant, then the figure harmonizes perfectly with Jesus' preaching to the citizens of Nazareth and others of that generation, referring to his message as "a proclamation of release to the captives," that is, the captives in sin (Luke 4:18). 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. (iv) He lays it down that the work of Christ was to bring us to God. But, besides this, what a spring is conveyed to the soul by the sense that his life is the life of Jesus in resurrection. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. they were sometimes so, yet to what purpose should this former No doubt if a person were at once to be brought into the comfort of full peace with God through the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus, this would suit the heart's sense of its own need. 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. If asked why this should be accepted as the meaning of the expression, I acknowledge that one is bound to give a reason for that which no doubt differs from the view of many, and I answer, that in my judgment the just and only meaning of the word is proved from the fact that the saints are said to be "elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.". Why should this be a cause for vexation? And so he talked about, first of all, the servants submitting themselves unto their own masters, Christ leaving us an example. But when he rose again, he rose with a spiritual body, in which he was rid of the necessary weaknesses of humanity and liberated from the necessary limitations of time and space. Jesus preached to them through the apostles. 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. Paul will tell you so, even after he shows that the Christian is dead to the law; and then a term is used to show that he does not at all mean that the righteousness of the law is not fulfilled in us, but that it is. THE SILENT PREACHING OF A LOVELY LIFE ( 1 Peter 3:1-2 ). Now that word has changed in the usage, too. There is the attitude of elimination. the gates of hell; were in the bonds of iniquity, and dead in And I was greeting couple of young men first time they were here, and they were telling me how much they enjoyed the service. There is no difficulty that I see about it. Here are David's comments on verse 19, lightly adapted for readability: A number of alternative interpretations have been given. former is impracticable and impossible; for after death follows 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. There will be no possibility of self-love keeping up appearances longer: unbelief will cost as dear in that day as it is worthless now; but the trial of faith, where it has been genuine, will be "found unto praise and honour" then. 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 ). Hell is the place of the punishment of the wicked; Hades was the place where all the dead went. Those who died in faith went to the place of comfort and were comforted by father Abraham. There is an awakening of conscience by the Spirit through the word (for I am not speaking now of anything natural, of moral desires or emotions of the heart). In Christ Jesus the dividing walls are down, and Jew and Greek are united into one ( Ephesians 2:13-14). So "be full of pity", or another translation of the Greek word is tenderhearted. He is keeping up the link with saints of old by a general principle. Now, I need not tell you, things are in a certain measure of confusion. The simple idea is that of persons confined as in a prison; and the passage will prove only that in the time when the apostle wrote there were those wire were thus confined. It is not affirmed that he preached the gospel, for if that specific idea had been expressed it would have been rather by another word - euangelizo. And I am persuaded that a hardness of character, quite intolerable to men of spiritual minds, would inevitably be generated by making all our food to consist in what could be extracted from Ephesians and Colossians, the effect of which would soon become painfully sensible to others. Peter treats chiefly of the former, Paul of both, but chiefly of the latter. In regard to this doctrine there have always been differing attitudes amongst thinkers. It was probably a well known sister there; and therefore it was enough simply to allude to her. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls." In this way it is not independent of our looking to Him. of life, are called "spirits", which seems to be a word that But even on this word there are several various readings; some of the Greek MSS. 851-52; Selwyn, p. 199; John S. Feinberg, "1 Peter 3:18-20, Ancient Mythology, and the Intermediate State," Westminster Theological Journal 48:2 (Fall 1986):303-36; and Wayne Grudem, "Christ Preaching through Noah: 1 Peter 3:19-20 in the Light of Dominant Themes in Jewish Literature," Trinity Journal 7NS:2 (Fall 1986):3-31.] poreutheis. And that's the message here in Acts 14:8-20. The enforcement of the conduct from Scripture,1 Peter 3:10-12 4. Compare also Jesus implication that angels do not procreate in Matthew 22:30. Where? 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. I shall discuss these views in the exposition to follow. 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. A very important development follows in the next verses. It is not then a question of wounding; for why should it hurt you, if I see a particular truth and must act according to it? Mediator, in his divine nature, and by his Spirit discharged that Now because I believe in Jesus Christ, I want to obey Him and thus I am baptized as a sign of what has transpired already within my heart. Are thy wonders known in the darkness, or thy saving help in the land of forgetfulness?" 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. California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. (i) He lays it down that the work of Christ was unique and never need be repeated. The whole attitude of ancient civilization was that no woman could dare take any decision for herself. It is the grace of the Risen Lord which cleanses us; it is to the Risen, Living Lord that we pledge ourselves; it is to the Risen, Living Lord that we look for strength to keep the pledge that we have given. Such labour is no modern thing. Their story is told in Genesis 6:1-8. To make the spirit by which Christ preached, as here, to have been his human spirit, or anything else except the Holy Spirit, involves men in making distinctions that are simply not discernible in the word of God. One pound weight of the best Tyrian purple wool, strained twice through, cost 1,000 denarii, 43.50 British pounds. This is not only one of the most difficult passages in Peter's letter, it is one of the most difficult in the whole New Testament; and it is also the basis of one of the most difficult articles in the creed, "He descended into Hell." The word for "to bring" is prosagein ( G4317) . In the believer the evil heart of unbelief is modified necessarily by the fact that, believing on Christ, he has everlasting life. The passage is Isaiah 3:18-24. Not my wife, I'm not thinking about her. Peter has just laid down the duty of wives; now he lays down the duty of husbands. "For he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin." Luke's gospel, the sixteenth chapter, Jesus describes what hell was like prior to His death: Two compartments, no capacity of crossing from one to the other. Here we have basically the same picture. word Enoch ( G1802) had dropped out. His spirit, instead of being bound by those forces that lead to eternal condemnation, entered into fuller life. The preaching was in the days of Noah. sense, to the days of Noah, is very unaccountable; this sense 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." There he says, "Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme; or to governors, as to them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and praise to them that do well.". "[31] Herodotus often used such expressions as "he spoke, saying," or "he speaking, said," and we have the same kind of an expression in "he went and preached." This is not by any means the only meaning of blood, even where it was sacrificially employed. But when it is a question of drawing near, let us not forget that we are a holy priesthood. 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. II. 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. Nor is it only that He comes down from God, but He goes up to God. Such is not., the topic of Peter; it had been given to another instrument more fitted for revealing the heavenly position of the believer. For this is why the gospel was preached even to the dead, so that, although they have already been judged in the flesh like men, they might live in the Spirit like God. If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious; to whom coming as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God and precious, ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." 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. But this was the will of God. To him be the glory and the might for the ages of the ages. human soul of Christ, but his divine nature, is designed by the It really is founded on the death of Christ; and therein further our due place is shown us by His resurrection. That would be the best sermon she could preach to win her husband for Christ. The hearers. The intention is just that you recognize that true beauty is inward. [Note: Fanning, pp. The times of the Gentiles are still in course of accomplishment. But, laying aside the physical categories of this doctrine, we can find in it truths which are eternally valid and precious, three in particular. It is God's instruction: "You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting" ( Exodus 29:4). branch of it, his prophetic office, before he appeared in human And as he is writing in his own little exhortations here, he goes back and he quotes a portion of Psalm 34 , about three or four verses out of Psalm 34 . being put to death in the flesh, but he was made alive by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits that were in prison; Which sometimes were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by the water ( 1 Peter 3:18-20 ). They were those who were sometimes disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah. No others are specified; and if it should be maintained that this means that he went down to hell (Hades), or to Sheol, and preached to those who are confined there, it could be inferred from this passage only that he preached to that portion of the lost spirits confined there which belonged to the particular generation in which Noah lived. hope of salvation afterwards; and the latter is absurd, vain, and 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. And we all come the same way to the same Lord to receive the same grace. Let a man so act that his conscience is clear. There are two closely connected words. And so He ascended to the right hand of God; the angels, the authorities, the powers, the ranking of angels are all subject unto him. At first sight it looks like injustice. The identity of the "spirits in prison" is problematic. Many great scholars have accepted that view; but we do not think it is the view which comes naturally from Peter's words. 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? I consider them both to stand in manifest contrast with the same two elements under the law in Exodus 24:1-18, which appears to be in view. The apostle takes particular care to instruct them in the bearing of many of the types that were contained in the Levitical ritual with which they were familiar. It is no longer relationship with and recognition of a God that rules and governs. Here Peter has certain things to say about this Christian defence. They were tempted by the beauty of mortal women; they came to earth, seduced them and begat children; and because of their action, it is inferred, the wickedness of man was great and his thoughts were always evil. Wives and Husbands. He'll be gone and then I won't have anything. 1 PETER 3:19 evn w|- kai, Several scholars have advocated the conjectural emendation that introduces the subject "Enoch" (enwkaienw,). Today He also waits, so patiently that some people conclude that He will never judge (cf. Who are referred to by spirits? 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. Now you may be baptized by sprinkling, by dunking, by full immersion, and still not be saved. (iii) The whole idea and effectiveness of baptism is dependent on the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 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. Women did not share in the worship of the Greeks and the Romans. 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.". be tedious to reckon up the several different senses of this There is the suffering in which we are involved because of our humanity. (iii) Third, Peter sets brotherly love. God is so patient that he waited for 120 years before sending the Flood in Noahs day (Genesis 6:3). So far was their believing in Christ from taking them out of the people, it is then alone that they became, a people. He's referring, of course, to the cross. As I go down in the water, it's being buried. Because they were dead and disembodied when the apostle speaks of them, therefore he properly calls them spirits now in prison; not that they were in prison when Christ preached to them, as the vulgar Latin translation and the popish expositors pretend. . There are few passages where the value of a lovely Christian life is so vividly stressed. By which also he went and preached unto the spirits We have already mentioned these angels. He tells them that strifes and divisions are fleshly things, marks that they are living on purely human standards, without the mind of Christ ( 1 Corinthians 3:3). personal ministry of Noah, and by the building of the ark, to Peter turns to the domestic problems which Christianity inevitably produced. Thus the passage is sufficiently plain. (i) Baptism is not merely a physical cleansing; it is a spiritual cleansing of the whole heart and soul and life. but it would Clearly, between the seal and its impression there is the closest possible correspondence. 1 Peter 2:8 "Defense" (Greek: apologia): Christians should always be ready to give a defense, . God required no more blood, no more death. Christianity alone settles all questions. However, apart from that, on which I do not mean to enter more tonight, one thing is remarkable, that even when all was in apostolic, order, and where pastors and teachers and prophets and so on were, and besides, where the elders had been fitly appointed by the apostles themselves or by apostolic men, even there and at that very time they were exhorted against the notion of considering, "This is my congregation, and that is your leader." Do the shades rise up to praise thee? Interestingly enough, Paul shares pretty much equally; has quite a bit to say to the wives but then he has also quite a bit to say to the husbands, as far as the marriage relationships, interpersonal relationships within marriage. Isaiah had called Sara the mother of God's faithful people ( Isaiah 51:2); and if Christian wives are adorned with the same graces of modesty, humility and chastity, they too will be her daughters and will be within the family of the faithful people of God. He suffered in other ways; in this He stands alone for us; "that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. "Whom," says he, "having not seen, ye love." And then he asks, "And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? They speak what is somewhat more probable, who say, that the redemption obtained by Christ availed the dead, who in the time of Noah were long unbelieving, but repented a short time before they were drowned by the deluge. She must be reverent. The time past might well suffice for the wretched gratification of self. It is not merely the work effected, but salvation revealed; and hence it necessarily awaits the revelation of Jesus Christ. "For there is neither male nor female, bond or free: Christ is all and in all" ( Colossians 3:11 ). But the Christian's standard of comparison is Christ, and, compared with his sinless perfection, he is ever in default. He is no longer waiting for the sprinkling of that precious blood, he is already sprinkled with it before God. The Christian ethic never grants a privilege without a corresponding obligation. 206-13.] But there is another thing to be considered. a great many perished. We can easily comprehend it. of the Vulgate before me, the clause is thus: In quo et his qui in carcere erant SPIRITU venient praedicavit; "in which, coming by the Spirit, he preached to those who were in prison." You remember when Peter was arrested for the preaching of the Gospel and they beat him and told him not to preach anymore in the name of Jesus Christ? In the word of God, then, we find that the accomplishment of the prophecy supposes an earthly place, with visible power and glory given to the Jewish people. The common printed Vulgate is different from all these, and from all the MSS. "We are begotten again," says he, "to a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." "But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. What, then, must have been the problems of the wife who became a Christian while her husband remained faithful to the ancestral gods? If you suffer for evil doing, you've got it coming. 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. 1 Peter 3 is the third chapter of the First Epistle of Peter in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. Indeed, it is too plain a fact for any one to dispute. We shall see that this comes later on in our epistle, and therefore I need say no more upon it now. We have first seen one of them, "a holy priesthood;" there is another lower down, in verse 9, where he says, "Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood." And Peter and his friends went away rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer that kind of persecution for Jesus. 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. Getting along; you know our prayer life can be hindered by friction within the home. If he suffered, to expiate sins, why should not we be content when our sufferings are only for trial and correction, but not for expiation? It is a logos ( G3056) that the Christian must give, and a logos ( G3056) is a reasonable and intelligent statement of his position. Various forms of pregnant and brachylogical construction (Winer s Grammar, 66, 2; (less fully, Buttmann, 327 (282)); Bernhardy (1829), p. 348f): etc. 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. (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. He reminds the Christians of Rome that, though they are many, they are one body, and he pleads with them to be of one mind ( Romans 12:4; Romans 12:16). What a place for the Christian! He was saying that we each worship something - we seek to fill the God-shaped hole in our hearts, but our worship is all vain, it's all futile, unless we worship the one true God. transition from the times of the apostles, according to this Revelation 20:11-15). 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. The previous verse ended the narrative concerning Peter and it continued that of Herod. There can be nothing without this: impossible to have any holy and permanent blessing for the soul without it; nevertheless this is not what is said. 3:13-15a Who will hurt you, if you are ardent lovers of goodness? It is Jesus Christ, through what he did, who gives men access to God. But the men and women of Noah's generation, notwithstanding "God's patience" in delaying judgment, spurned that proclamation. The appearing of Jesus is exclusively when the Lord will make Himself visible, and be seen by every eye. too often saints going astray, comparatively seldom persevering as the rule, if we speak of their consistent fidelity and devotedness. THE CHRISTIAN'S SECURITY IN A THREATENING WORLD ( 1 Peter 3:13-15 a). 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. (3.) Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they may also without the word be won by the conversation or behavior of the wives ( 1 Peter 3:1 ); Or the lifestyle of the wife. 2 Peter 2:4) and that they were disobedient in the days of Noah (1 Peter 3:20). AND DO NOT FEAR THEIR INTIMIDATION, AND DO NOT BE TROUBLED, ( NASB: Lockman) Greek: all' ei kai paschoite ( 2PPAO) dia dikaiosunen, makarioi. Others feel He announced condemnation to the unbelievers. And the high priest asked them, Acts 5:27 The captain and officers just went to collect the apostles but without any violence. (Psalms 40:1-17; Hebrews 10:1-39) Thus He goes in peaceful triumph into the presence of God, establishing our faith and hope in God, and not merely in Himself. That ethic is what may be called a reciprocal ethic. He is now fulfilling the Levitical types in the holiest of all. It is not here blessing them in heavenly places in Christ. (it isn't the washing away of the filth of the flesh, but it is the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ ( 1 Peter 3:21 ): So the true baptism is a matter of my heart.Now I do believe that every one who believes in Jesus Christ should be baptized in water. in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison. 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. Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. "For for this cause was the gospel preached to the dead also, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit." Therefore God has His own wise, holy, and gracious mode of dealing with it. When they were admitted to the synagogue at all, they were segregated from the men and hidden behind a screen. 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