What were the disciples then? He was a soft touch. Proud member This I deny altogether. In between the Old and New Testaments many legends sprang up about Enoch and famous and important books were written under his name. I, indeed, allow that Christ by means of his apostles went by his Spirit to those who were kept as it were in prison; but this exposition appears incorrect on several accounts: First, Peter says that Christ went to spirits, by which he means souls separated from their bodies, for living men are never called spirits; and secondly, what Peter repeats in the fourth chapter on the same subject, does not admit of such an allegory. To my mind, nothing is more wonderful in our blessed Lord here below than this devotedness to His Father, not merely now and again, but as the one motive that animated Him from the beginning to the end of His course here below. A man under the law never fulfils the law: the man who is under grace is the one that does, and the only one; for the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in those "who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." Members of His body? She must be reverent. 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. all this, and which Beza, with others, observes, the apostle Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. So I do not believe in what is called baptismal regeneration. The saints, then, are "kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation." Through him we have access to God the Father ( Ephesians 2:18). (ii) He must be chivalrous. (2)THE MARKS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE ( 1 Peter 3:8-12 continued). This is Christianity. 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). The old English word was conversation, which doesn't mean verbal but it means your lifestyle. in their bodies, in the general deluge, yet their souls were 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 Publius Sempronius Sophus divorced his wife because once she went to the public games. Never fear for the honour of the scripture, never shrink from committing yourself to what God says. The purposes of God was thwarted by sinful man.So in order that man might have fellowship with God, these purposes of God restored, Jesus suffered once for our sins, "the just for the unjust", that He might be able to bring you to God. It is not to be explained in terms of a swoon on the Cross, or anything like that. We have seen that the attempt at the elimination of this passage fails. He is righteous; He is jealous of His house; but if this be serious for His own, where shall the sinner appear? Next we have the trial that the saints were passing through alluded to, and the call to suffer not for righteousness merely but for Christ's sake. 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. We have already mentioned these angels. And we all come the same way to the same Lord to receive the same grace. God has chosen individuals. Some of these say He extended an offer of salvation to them. We can easily comprehend it. This was known in Israel, but it could in no wise draw out the affections in the same way as calling Him Father. Without that question and answer the contract was not valid. Women did not share in the worship of the Greeks and the Romans. This doctrine of the descent into Hades, as we must now call it, is based on two phrases in our present passage. "The just for the unjust,". Isaiah 49:9 That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They will be won over 2 by observing your pure and reverent lives. And here I'm supposed to be a minister telling people how to have peace, and I'm all upset because of this stupid move of his. "Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you." the gates of hell; were in the bonds of iniquity, and dead in This is, indeed, a more tolerable sense than the former; but it will be difficult to show, that men, in the present state of life, are called "spirits", which seems to be a word that relates to the souls of men, in a separate state from their bodies; and especially that carnal and unconverted men are ever so called; and besides, the apostle is speaking of such who were disobedient in the times of Noah; and therefore not of the Gentiles, in the times of the apostles: add to which, that the transition from the times of the apostles, according to this sense, to the days of Noah, is very unaccountable; this sense does not agree with the connection of the words: others are of opinion, that this is meant of the souls of the Old Testament saints, who were , "in a watch", as they think the phrase may be rendered, instead of "in prison": and said to be in such a situation, because they were intent upon the hope of promised salvation, and were looking out for the Messiah, and anxiously desiring his coming, and which he, by some gracious manifestation, made known unto them: but though the word may sometimes signify a watch, yet more commonly a prison, and which sense best suits here; nor is that anxiety and uneasiness, which represents them as in a prison, so applicable to souls in a state of happiness; nor such a gracious manifestation so properly called preaching; and besides, not believers, but unbelievers, disobedient ones, are here spoken of; and though it is only said they were sometimes so, yet to what purpose should this former character be once mentioned of souls now in glory? (iv) He lays it down that the work of Christ was to bring us to God. He'll be gone and then I won't have anything. On this is founded the spiritual priesthood, and in consequence we who are His draw near and offer up spiritual sacrifices. "But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. That only creates, you know, that only builds and let's you read, you know --there's so many nuts on the highway today. And God knew that guys have this stupid male macho image of themselves and that they've got to feel that they're strong and powerful and in control; that they're running the show. Sanctification of the Spirit is altogether distinct from that gift. Because of their "former" disobedience, they are presently "in prison.". (v) Fifth, Peter sets humility. that Christ also, under the Old Testament, acted the part of a But there is that which never fails, "the power of God through faith," by which the believer is kept to the end. There may have been a judgment, but this is not the judgment. It means that no man who ever lived is outside the grace of God. "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. Hebrew Names Version Chapter Parallel 1 Peter 3:19 (HNV) in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison, Not at all. That is, the holiness of the Christian is fuller, and deeper than that of the Jew. This is the point that Justin Martyr fastened on long ago: "The Lord, the Holy God of Israel, remembered his dead, those sleeping in the earth, and came down to them to tell them the good news of salvation." He shows that first of all there was this testimony of that which was not for themselves but for us, beginning of course with the converted Jewish remnant, these Christian Jews who believed the gospel which in principle belongs to us of the Gentiles just as much as to them. 2 Timothy 4:18 (see , b. under the end); , 1 Peter 3:20 (the Sept. Genesis 19:19, and often in Greek . How does Moffatt arrive at this translation? knowing that you are thereunto called, that you should inherit a blessing ( 1 Peter 3:9 ). The old man being dead now buried in water and the new life that I now have, the life of the Spirit through Jesus Christ. It was an imprecation of death on themselves from God if they violated His commandments. to save by translating into etc. 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 power had been made subject to him. Under Jewish law a woman was a thing; she was owned by her husband in exactly the same way as he owned his sheep and his goats: on no account could she leave him, although he could dismiss her at any moment. He went through a profound work in his conscience after that. Peter has been speaking about the wicked men who were disobedient and corrupt in the days of Noah; they were ultimately destroyed. Epictetus and Peter agree. (iii) He lays it down that that sacrifice was vicarious. [Note: E.g., Michaels, pp. The early quotations, Greek and Latin, save of Oecumenius, point to the same reading. (ii) His defence must be given with gentleness. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away; but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. Luke next records, "Now Herod had been very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon.". 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. We do not wait for times and seasons. In the case of the Christian all is changed. How little, it seems, the Old Testament prophets understood their own prophecies! It is God's flock; and if a person is charged of the Lord to shepherd His flock, how blessed the trust! By which - Evidently by the Spirit referred to in the previous verse - en ho - the divine nature of the Son of God; that by which he was quickened again, after he had been put to death; the Son of God regarded as a Divine Being, or in that same nature which afterward became incarnate, and whose agency was employed in quickening the man Christ Jesus, who had been put to death. Thus all the living oracles of God are turned into use for the Christian, only you must take care that you do not abuse them or any part of them. I have quoted all these authorities from the most authentic and correct copies of the Vulgate, to show that from them there is no ground to believe that the text speaks of Christ's going to hell to preach the Gospel to the damned, or of his going to some feigned place where the souls of the patriarchs were detained, to whom he preached, and whom he delivered from that place and took with him to paradise, which the Romish Church holds as an article of faith. 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. That's always a better thing. relates to the souls of men, in a separate state from their Confound the one with the other and you upset the gospel: distinguish sanctification in principle from the beginning for all from sanctification in practice in the various measures of believers, and you learn the truth of what Peter here teaches, which is forgotten for the most part in Christendom. 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 cruelty which is hardest to bear is often not deliberate but the product of sheer thoughtlessness. 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. They are going to be judged. But there's an interesting proverb that says, "A soft answer turns away wrath" ( Proverbs 15:1 ). They would rather have placed the sprinkling of the blood first, and obedience next. 1 Peter 3 - Submission and Suffering A. Submission in the home. Christ was once and for all offered to bear the sin of many ( Hebrews 9:28). "[32] Speaking of the preaching of the apostles themselves, Paul said that Christ "came and preached peace to you that were afar off" (Ephesians 2:17); but Christ preached to the Ephesians through human instruments, nevertheless it is said that he "came and preached" to them. 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.". Then Peter reveals that Jesus' sacrificial death was as a substitutethe righteous (Christ) for the unrighteous (us). spirits that were then in it when he preached, but to persons But if you're cold and aloof; this jerk making a stupid mistake and he's probably going to take off when he has lost everything. human soul of Christ, but his divine nature, is designed by the For Christ also hath once suffered for sins ( 1 Peter 3:18 ). Now the new nature in the believer never has any other thought or feeling; only in our case there is also the old nature which may, and which alas! Hence, when he says it saves us, he necessarily brings in resurrection. Some advocates of this view say this took place in hell between His crucifixion and His resurrection. Why was there the mighty action of the Spirit of God producing such various gifts for profit if they did not create the responsibility to exercise them? proclaimed to the spirits in prison This short phrase raises several difficult issues for the interpreter: 1) the identity of the spirits in prison (v. 19), 2) the reasons for their imprisonment, 3) the location of the prison where Christ went to preach, 4) the content of Christs proclamation, 5) the relationship of preaching to the spirits (v. 19) with preaching to those who are dead (4:6), 6) and the possible allusions to biblical (Gen 69; Jude) and 7) extrabiblical traditions (such as the Jewish work called 1 Enoch), [extrabiblical A catch-all term to refer to ancient literary and archaeological evidence that is not part of the Bible, but might provide evidence related to the Bible, its world, and biblical people. Certainly this mode of speaking would be most unsuitable. Mediator, in his divine nature, and by his Spirit discharged that It was Christianity which introduced chivalry into the relationship between men and women. Where? The speaker should be God's mouthpiece for making His mind known there and then. God has raised Him from the dead and given Him glory. It was to them that Enoch did, in fact, preach; and there are those who think that what this passage means is not that Christ preached mercy and another chance; but that, in token of his complete triumph, he preached terrible doom to those angels who had sinned. In any presentation of the Christian case and in any argument for the Christian faith, the accent should be the accent of love. "He," it is said of Christ, "gave them gifts, to each man according to his several ability." 3:17-22;4:1-6 For it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be the will of God, than to suffer for doing wrong. The Zealots were the fanatical patriots, who were pledged to liberate their native land by every possible means. Antistius Vetus divorced his wife because he saw her secretly speaking to a freed woman in public. Not intended as that at all. And these are the things that convince the Moslem of the truth of Christianity.So Paul is declaring that our lifestyle is all-important. We may put it this way. In what sense does baptism save us? The prison was death by which men were bound. 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. See Note 1 at end of the chapter. Christians must maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, remembering that there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all ( Ephesians 4:3-6). The copy from which this translation was taken evidently read conclusi erdnt, with one of the MSS. One group of interpreters believes Jesus went to the realm of the dead and preached to Noahs contemporaries between His crucifixion and His resurrection. Christ died once and for all for sins, the just.for the unjust. If you suffer for evil doing, you've got it coming. Suffering is the way in which power in practice is found against the flesh; so that "he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God." They're basic to a good marriage, because the more the wife submits to her husband, the easier he finds it to show his love. The fault is in denying the other and yet more fundamental sense of sanctification here shown by Peter in its right relation to obedience. When did Jesus make this proclamation? and sat in darkness, and the shadow of death, and, as it were, at But I do believe that water baptism by full immersion is only a symbol of the work of the Spirit that has transpired within my heart. (2) If the meaning be that he went and preached after his death, it seems difficult to know why the reference is to those only who had been disobedient in the days of Noah. Why were they alone selected for this message? In this passage Peter has three great things to say about baptism. in the text from the disobedient spirits. She comes up and grabs me and starts calling me a filthy viper and all kinds of stuff, you know. The earth will be sown with the seed of God when the Jewish nation, as such, obtains mercy. By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison. 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? If it speaks of the duty of children, it speaks also of the obligations of parents (compare Ephesians 6:1-9; Colossians 3:20-25; Colossians 4:1). They watch. If he, though perfectly just, why should not we, who are all criminals? Various are the senses given of this passage: some say, that Christ, upon his death, went in his human soul to hell; either, as some, to preach to the devils and damned spirits, that they might be saved, if they would; and, as others, to let them know that he was come, and to fill them with dread and terror; but though hell may be meant by the prison, yet the text does not say that he went unto it, or preached in it; only that the spirits were in it, to whom he sometimes went, and preached; nor is his human soul, but his divine nature meant, by the Spirit, by which he went and preached to them: and as for the ends proposed, the former is impracticable and impossible; for after death follows judgment, which is an eternal one; nor is there any salvation, or hope of salvation afterwards; and the latter is absurd, vain, and needless. and we answer; "Yes." (b) If we look at Moffatt's translation, we find something quite different. Instead of improving the intelligibility of the passage (as a co. Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary This passage has lodged in the creed in the phrase: "He descended into hell." All through the New Testament rings this plea for Christian unity. (i) He must be understanding. The saints were chosen "according to the foreknowledge of God the Father;" for it was no question now of a Governor having a nation in whom He might display His wisdom, power, and righteous ways. To be like Jesus I must have it.How many times you read in the Gospel, "And Jesus looked upon them and had compassion on them." 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. There is the suffering in which we are involved because of our humanity. And just how it all vanished. The enforcement of the conduct from Scripture,1 Peter 3:10-12 Anybody could get to Him. Then Peter expressly mentioned the Spirit, that he might take away the notion of what may be called a real presence. When the Christian remembers his dependence on God and keeps before him the standard of Christ, he must remain humble. It is no longer relationship with and recognition of a God that rules and governs. It is implied in the expression, as already remarked, that he did this himself; that it was the Son of God who subsequently became incarnate, and not the Holy Spirit, that did this; though the language is consistent with the supposition that he did it by the instrumentality of another, to wit, Noah. But they both suppose an open door for ministry among Christians in the Christian assembly. As it stands this doctrine is stated in categories which are outworn. They are now "spirits" since they died long ago and their bodies have not yet experienced resurrection. That is, "the eighth --eight souls saved by water," "The like figure", whereunto even baptism doth also now save us ( 1 Peter 3:21 ). The gospel sets forth present accomplishment redemption now a finished work as far as the soul is concerned. The word rendered prison, ( phulake,) means properly watch, guard - the act of keeping watch, or the guard itself; then watchpost, or station; then a place where anyone is watched or guarded, as a prison; then a watch in the sense of a division of the night, as the morning watch. 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. It is a great mistake to suppose that the blood there is used as a sign of the putting away of sin. 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. And so we find it in fact and in Scripture. others, to the eight souls that were shut up in the ark, as in a Let the truth that follows about the suffering of Christ serve to encourage you. 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. The root of all is that people are occupied about themselves first, instead of leaning on the Lord. What makes you different? This particular section goes back to verse thirteen of chapter two. [Note: Fanning, pp. That is to say, any argument in which the Christian is involved must be carried on in a tone which God can hear with joy. 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 . Certainly such is not the teaching of God's word anywhere, still less is it what the apostle Peter insists on here. "All power," He said, "is given to me in heaven and in earth." If you yield to nature, you gratify it; but if you suffer in refusing its wishes, then "he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin." We shall see that this comes later on in our epistle, and therefore I need say no more upon it now. 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. 1 Peter 3:19. saints, who were (en It doesn't save you. The word is a somewhat difficult one; but I believe the force is that it is what conscience wants and asks for from God. In fact, the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in no one but the Christian. Of uncertain affinity; to herald, especially divine truth. What a place for the Christian! The blessed end or design of our Lord's sufferings was to bring us to God, to reconcile us to God, to give us access to the Father, to render us and our services acceptable, and to bring us to eternal glory, Ephesians 2:13; Ephesians 2:18; Ephesians 3:12; Hebrews 10:21; Hebrews 10:22. 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. It only makes confusion in jumbling up law and gospel, to the detriment of both, and indeed to the destruction of all the beauty and force of truth. "As each man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. Were they the only ones in purgatory who could be beneficially affected by his preaching? 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