(i) It must be reasonable. In the Temple the layman might come so far; he could pass through the Court of the Gentiles, the Court of the Women, the Court of the Israelites--but there he must stop. (1-2) The heart of a godly wife. (1) The spirits are the souls of the faithful of the OT and the "prison" is simply the place they remained awaiting Christ, who proclaims his redemption to them; 1 (i) Peter begins by insisting on a passionate love of goodness. 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. To what did it all point? Here are David's comments on verse 19, lightly adapted for readability: A number of alternative interpretations have been given. Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content. As we know, from that day to this there has never been a real recovery, but only the return of a remnant for special purposes for a season. Honey, do you love me? The cruelty which is hardest to bear is often not deliberate but the product of sheer thoughtlessness. Besides that, not only is there holiness in drawing near to God, but royal dignity stamped upon the believer. The less secure she feels, the more she challenges your decision. But here the apostle speaks of none of these things, but only of the Spirit separating the saints to obey as Jesus obeyed, and to be sprinkled with His blood. If Enoch is the person who makes the proclamation to the spirits, then the transition from 3:18 to 3:19 is abrupt in the extreme. One part of the answer is given here in 1Pe 1:3, another part is given in 1Pe 1:23-25. in which also to the spirits in prison having gone he did preach, 1 . Tools 1Pe 3:21 She comes up and grabs me and starts calling me a filthy viper and all kinds of stuff, you know. Peter treats chiefly of the former, Paul of both, but chiefly of the latter. Both flow from Christ and are in communion with Him who is now carrying on a priesthood according to the pattern of Aaron, but in His own person is a priest after the order of Melchisedec. The prophets were constantly saying that the righteousness of God was near at, hand, and His salvation to be revealed. To restrict yourself to it would be a wrong, not so much to your own soul as to God's grace; and if there be any difference, especially to Him who suffered all things for God's glory and for our own infinite blessing. 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." 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. King James Version (KJV) Public Domain. For a wife to change her religion while her husband did not was unthinkable. spirits out of prison, only of Christ's preaching to them: add to But certainly when the Israelites were binding themselves to obey the law, it was as far as possible from a confession of atonement. But it may be inquired, Why he puts in prison the souls of the godly after having quitted their bodies? It is, therefore, better first of all to read it as a whole and then to study it in its various sections. I mean, I was ready to tear him apart. While they behold your chaste lifestyle with reverence. ( Song of Solomon 1:1-3; Ephesians 5:22-33) 1 3668 [e] 1 Homois. (Although it involves the use of Greek some readers may be, interested to see how Rendel Harris arrived at this famous, emendation. This doctrine of the descent into Hades, as we must now call it, is based on two phrases in our present passage. 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. No such idea is traceable in the word of God. I. 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. To be reviled was a pain to which as domestics they would be particularly exposed, as well as to suffer in all sorts of ways. The consequence is that when minds get disturbed, it may be, about their position, then all sorts of difficulties come in. He is sprinkled with Christ's blood, which gives him confidence and boldness in faith before God, because he knows the certainty of the love that has put away his sins by blood. No argument, therefore, can be derived from this language to prove that Christ went and personally preached to those who were confined in hades or in prison. Here Peter has certain things to say about this Christian defence. Clearly, between the seal and its impression there is the closest possible correspondence. 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. Salvation is here viewed as not yet come. Were they the only ones in purgatory who could be beneficially affected by his preaching? I have before me one of the first, if not the very first edition of the Latin Bible; and in it the verse stands thus: In quo et hiis, qui in carcere erant, SPIRITUALITER veniens praedicavit; "by which he came spiritually, and preached to them that were in prison.". It does not seem to be of such prime importance that much need be said. What brings a man into that peace which resists all efforts from without to take it, all weakness within in giving it up, is the certainty that all is clear with God. There we have the gift, and this given according to the man's ability before he was converted. ", Carefully observe that Peter does not say that Christ went to prison and preached to the spirits there. [Note: See Allen P. Ross, Creation and Blessing, pp. The meaning is that there is nothing in earth and heaven outside the empire of Christ. Then Peter expressly mentioned the Spirit, that he might take away the notion of what may be called a real presence. But to take very simple and obvious examples, the Passover Lamb and the scapegoat, who bore the sins of the people, are types of Jesus; and the work of the High Priest in making sacrifice for the sins of the people is a type of his saving work. 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. In this case, then, it seems to me that the order is divinely perfect, and manifestly so. This is the reading also in the Complutensian Polyglot. II. Through him we have boldness and access and confidence to come to God ( Ephesians 3:12). place; some referring it to such in Noah's time, to whom the Thus there was a most thorough conviction of the folly of the Jewish argument as to Christianity being a mere novelty; but it was "manifest in these last times for you who by him do believe in God." The apostle Paul pressed on the Christian slave the beauty and responsibility of obedience; but Peter insists on it whether a man be a slave or not. God would bring Peters readers safely through their trials just as He had brought Noah safely through his trials into a whole new world. Even so, "Baptism," Peter says, "saves us." Anybody could get to Him. The word Peter uses for pledge is eperotema ( G1906) . Keep your conscience clear, so that, when you are abused, those who revile your good behaviour in Christ may be put to shame. NICZSB. It was during the height of the hippie thing around here where these hippies had these old vans and held together with bailing wire, you know; material things didn't mean anything to them, paint all over them. 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. They are the ones to which Jesus preached when He descended into hell. I repeat, it is God's flock, not yours; and you are not to lord over it as if it were your own belongings. 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. Monday, 7 March 2022 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. Peter does not tell the wife to preach or to argue. Of course it was Christ, which, after all, was far more important in one sense than the work He wrought for bringing us to God. In short, one may find here and there a truly excellent man, and, we will suppose, a number of godly people. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. They observe, and then, he said, they have to see a miracle and answer to prayer. In His own presence. (b) If we look at Moffatt's translation, we find something quite different. Do men wonder at one's abstaining? 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. 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. Here, I. "if you suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled; But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts ( 1 Peter 3:14-15 ): Give a special place for God in your life. It thus gives point to the saying that He was "quickened in spirit," which would otherwise be left very meaningless. A click on the Greek will lead you to the corresponding article in Abarim Publications's online Biblical Greek Dictionary 1 Peter 3:1 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; likewise adverb the def art nom-pl-fem Our faith must be a first-hand discovery and not a second-hand story. I mean, it's getting dangerous living. Here in Christianity emerged the revolutionary principle that women had equal spiritual rights and with that the relationship between the sexes was changed. "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." 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. This is because the wife's position was far more difficult than that of the husband. The blood of Jesus Christ, however precious and indispensable, does not of itself constitute a man a Christian either in intelligence or in fact of standing. It was when He who died went to heaven that Christianity appeared in its full force; and accordingly then came out faith in its finest and truest character. 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. Take Psalms 22:1-31 or Isaiah 53:1-12, where we have the sufferings which belonged to Christ, and the glories after these. It is good that we should feel that it is unbelief, and that unbelief can produce nothing but death. They would rather have placed the sprinkling of the blood first, and obedience next. And preached - The word used here ( ekeruxen) is of a general character, meaning to make a proclamation of any kind, as a crier does, or to deliver a message, and does not necessarily imply that it was the gospel which was preached, nor does it determine anything in regard to the nature of the message. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. If that supposition meets the full force of the language, then no argument can be based on it in proof that he went to preach to them after their death, and while his body was lying in the grave. "What profit is there in my death if I go down to the pit? Are thy wonders known in the darkness, or thy saving help in the land of forgetfulness?" After this Peter not only branches out into the outward life, but takes particular note of the family and its relationships. We have the value of Christ's blood already spoken of, but now it is added of God that He "raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory." Jesus preached to the souls in prison. Never fear for the honour of the scripture, never shrink from committing yourself to what God says. But what will not men believe, provided it be not in the Bible? It would be well if all were clearly to understand what they are doing when they take upon themselves membership of the Church. Wives and Husbands. point here, but if possible a deeper thing; and for the simple reason, that practical holiness must be relative or a question of degree. All unbelief therefore will be shown plainly to be of the flesh, not of the Spirit, and never excusable. "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. The saints, then, are "kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation." In what sense does baptism save us? Alas! Baptism becomes a beautiful symbol of that. It is Paul's dream that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth ( Php_2:10 ). The prison was death by which men were bound. The technical word for that question and answer clause is eperotema ( G1906) in Greek, stipulatio in Latin. Women did not share in the worship of the Greeks and the Romans. The earth will be sown with the seed of God when the Jewish nation, as such, obtains mercy. 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. Hence it is evident that, as long as the times of the Gentiles proceed, the Jews cannot regain their ancient title, nor become the real owners of Emmanuel's land. 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. Assuredly he is to shepherd the flock, and this as God's flock, not his own. Now that's a peculiar phrase, "Not afraid with any terror," and I don't understand what Peter is saying by that. 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Read full chapter. It is far the most natural thing to suppose that the spirits were in prison at the time when Christ went and preached to them. branch of it, his prophetic office, before he appeared in human 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. Now that word has changed in the usage, too. (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 is speaking about the people that heard Noah, and despised the word of the Lord then. We might put it that the Old Testament event symbolically represents and foreshadows the New Testament event. And that's the message here in Acts 14:8-20. But in the destruction by the flood eight people--Noah and his wife, his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth, and their wives--were brought to safety in the ark. This may be in various measures, and therefore no more is meant than so far as want of faith is allowed to work. The merit and perfection of Christ's sacrifice were such that for him to suffer once was enough. Such as communion is condemning to the person who doesn't believe. At first sight, perhaps, these words may be startling to some, that is, to such as think that the sense of "salvation" is weakened thereby. Some use the word sacrament. The event of all: Their bodies were drowned, and their spirits cast into hell, which is called a prison (Matthew 5:25; 2 Peter 2:4; 2 Peter 2:5); but Noah and his family, who believed and were obedient, were saved in the ark. I pray that God will always grant to me a tender heart, a heart of compassion. 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?. (vi) Peter sees the work of Christ in terms of complete triumph. And we are all one, heirs together of the grace of God. So God is often represented as coming, as descending, etc., when he brings a message to mankind. (3) The Descent Into Hell ( 1 Peter 3:18 b-20;4:6 Continued). It is the instinct of that new nature, of life in the believer, who, being born of God, has this necessary feeling of the new nature, the desire to do the will of God. Antistius Vetus divorced his wife because he saw her secretly speaking to a freed woman in public. Beautiful Christian trait: courtesy. The precious blood of Christ is another thing altogether; and there alone is efficacy found before God; so also His incorruptible seed revealing Himself is planted in the heart of the saint. In this passage we can see how Peter was soaked in the Old Testament; there are two Old Testament foundations for it. You have to look onto the heavenly future. It symbolizes that which has already transpired in my heart. personal ministry of Noah, and by the building of the ark, to Therefore, he is completely secure. In a certain sense they are strangers now; but it is an awful sense, because it is the fruit of judgment. 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 . But the sanctification of the Spirit laid down here is in order to the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus; and therefore unless you would destroy the grace of God, and reverse a multitude of scriptures as to justification by faith, this sanctification cannot be one's practice of day by day. bondage. It is not often that words are thus left out. "The opinion which states that Jesus Christ descended into hell, to announce his coming to the ancient patriarchs, and to deliver them from that species of prison, where they had so long waited for him, is incontrovertible; and we (the Catholics) consider it as an article of our faith: but we may doubt whether this be the meaning of St. Peter in this place.". And this is a point that Peter presses on them, a startling thought for a Jew, yet they had only to reflect in order to know how true it is: "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father." Christ gave himself for our sins ( Galatians 1:4). As Edwin H. Robertson put it: "Only forgiveness without reason can match sin without excuse." In fact, it's worse than that; it is --it's almost condemning to me. In every sphere of ancient civilization, women had no rights at all. According to this none ought ever to speak unless he has a thorough conviction that he is giving out God's mind and message, as suited for that time and those souls. Thus, Genesis 11:5, The Lord came down to see the city and the tower. Exodus 19:20, the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai. Numbers 11:25, the Lord came down in a cloud. 2 Samuel 22:10, he bowed the heavens and came down. The idea, however, would be conveyed by this language that he did this personally, or by himself, and not merely by employing the agency of another. "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren," for this is the sure effect "see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently." Thus hope also could spring forth as it were to meet Him; as, indeed, it is the work of the Holy Ghost to exercise the faith and hope He has given. After these came down to see the city and the glories after these once was.. 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