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1 Peter 1:10
Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you;
Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you;
Verse 10. _OF WHICH SALVATION THE PROPHETS HAVE INQUIRED_] The incarnation and suffering of Jesus Christ, and the redemption procured by him for mankind, were made known, in a general way, by the pro...
OF WHICH SALVATION - Of the certainty that this system of religion, securing the salvation of the soul, would be revealed. The object of this reference to the prophets seems to be to lead them to valu...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE SUFFERING OF BELIEVERS AND EXHORTATIONS TO HOLY LIVING CHAPTER 1:1-21 _ 1. The introduction and doxology (1 Peter 1:1)_ 2. Suffering and the coming glory (1 Peter...
The section contains a deep and rich thanksgiving to God for the certainty of an eternal fellowship with Christ. This no sufferings can mar, nor death itself break. He is the unseen Friend, and since...
OF. App-104. PROPHETS. See James 5:10. HAVE. Omit. ENQUIRED. Greek. _ekzeteo._ See Acts 15:17. SEARCHED DILIGENTLY. Greek. _exereunao._ Only here....
_Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently_ The words require a slight correction before we proceed to explain them. The noun "prophets" is without the article and the verb...
1 Peter 1:3-13. THE HIGH PRIVILEGES AND DESTINY OF THE CHRISTIAN _Benediction_ 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for by raising Him from the dead He has begotten us, His othe...
Plumptre (_Camb._ Bible, 1 _Pet._, p. 98) and others would explain the passage which follows as referring to New Testament prophets or preachers of the first days of the Church, who constantly uttered...
ΈΞΕΖΉΤΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΚΖΗΤΈΩ (G1567) искать. Предложное сочетание усилительное, ΈΞΗΡΑΎΝΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΞΕΡΑΥΝΆΩ (G1830) отыскивать. Поиск — более общий термин, отыскивание же обоз...
DISCOURSE: 2383 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PROPHECIES 1 Peter 1:10. Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching w...
OF WHICH SALVATION THE PROPHETS— The gospel was not fully revealed to the Jews before the coming of Christ. Something of the nature of the gospel in general, and of that grand event, the conversion of...
_3. DEEP CONCERN OF PROPHETS AND ANGELS 1:10-12_ 1 Peter 1:10-11 Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searchi...
Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: The magnitude of this "salvation" is proved by the earnestness with whi...
VERSE 10 OF WHICH SALVATION THE PROPHETS HAVE INQUIRED. As the ages passed, God, from time to time, by words through the prophets and by their hands, exhibited types and symbols relating to the comin...
1 Note the contrast between Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus. Peter proceeds on the ground of His present rejection on earth, Paul on His exaltation in heaven. 1...
GREETING IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY TRINITY. ENCOURAGEMENT TO HOPE IN FAITH AND OBEDIENCE 1, 2. To the strangers scattered throughout.. elect] RV 'to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in,' e...
SEARCHED DILIGENTLY] studying the sacred writings that already existed, observing the signs of the times, meditating on the spiritual significance of worship, and trying to discern God's true will in...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ INTRODUCTION THE WRITER Peter wrote this letter. He was one of the 12 *apostles. His name was Simon, but Jesus changed it to Peter (John 1:42). ‘Pe...
These *prophets of God lived before the birth of Jesus Christ. The ‘Spirit of Christ’ is another name for Christ or *Messiah or the Spirit of God. (In Romans 8:9-10 Paul, too, uses all these names to...
(3-12) PANEGYRIC OF THE GOSPEL FROM A HEBREW POINT OF VIEW. — The Apostle thanks God for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That fact is a regeneration of us, and a pledge of future glory, in view of w...
Now St. Peter brings his doctrine home to the hearts of his readers of the Dispersion, by showing them how scriptural it is. Surely they will not “draw back” (Hebrews 10:39), but believe on to the pur...
CHAPTER 3 THE UNITY AND GLORIOUSNESS OF THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION 1 Peter 1:10 THE message of the Gospel unlocks the treasures of Old Testament revelation. Evangelists and Apostles are the exponents of...
_Benediction of the Name_. The mention of God is followed by the Benediction of the Name as Jewish piety prescribed; the formula _the Holy One, blessed be He_, being amplified by the Christian appreci...
The ancient prophets prophesied concerning the grace which was destined for you and enquired diligently about this salvation. They were the unconscious instruments of the revelation of God and their f...
The prophets were concerned with the Messianic salvation and searched their own writings and those of their predecessors for definite information about it. They are honoured by the Christians who real...
OUR IMPERISHABLE INHERITANCE 1 Peter 1:1 _ Scattered strangers_! The designation is true of us all. Note the reference to the Trinity involved in the opening sentence. Our inheritance is prepared and...
Like the letter of James, the purpose of this was to establish those who were passing through a period of suffering and testing. In his introduction the apostle used the name Jesus had given him, "Pet...
THE PROPHETS LONGED TO UNDERSTAND SALVATION'S PLAN Jesus may have referred to the prophets' desire to know about God's plan for the salvation of man when he spoke in Matthew 13:16-17 and Luke 10:23-24...
(3) Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace [that should come] unto you: (3) He makes a difference between true faith, that is to say, that f...
Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: (11) Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was...
The epistles of Peter are addressed to the elect Jews of his day, believing of course on the Lord Jesus, and scattered throughout a considerable portion of Asia Minor. The apostle takes particular car...
He hence commends the value of salvation, because the prophets had their minds intensely fixed on it; for it must have been a great matter, and possessing peculiar excellency, which could have thus ki...
The First Epistle of Peter is addressed to believers among the dispersed of Israel found in those provinces of Asia Minor Which are named in the first Verse; the Second Epistle declares itself to be a...
OF WHICH SALVATION THE PROPHETS HAVE INQUIRED,.... They greatly desired the coming of the Saviour, and to see him; they longed after the salvation to be accomplished by him, and expressed their wishes...
Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace _that should come_ unto you: Ver. 10. _The prophets have inquired_] This highly sets forth the weigh...
_Of which salvation_ That is, concerning the nature and extent of it, and the way and means of attaining it, namely, by believing and obeying the gospel, to be preached among all nations: (see the mar...
THE PROPHETS HAVE INQUIRED; they sought to know more fully the meaning of the prophecies which they uttered concerning Christ, and the blessings he would bestow on his people....
Peter writes with apostolic authority and though it is directly to the dispersed Jewish Christians (strangers both because Jews among Gentiles, and because Christians separated from Jewish relatives),...
_ 1 Peter 1:10 ‘As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful search and inquiry'_ _“AS TO THIS SALVATION”_ -This salvation promised to the Christ...
10-12 Jesus Christ was the main subject of the prophets' studies. Their inquiry into the sufferings of Christ and the glories that should follow, would lead to a view of the whole gospel, the sum whe...
OF WHICH SALVATION; either: 1. The more full and clear manifestation of salvation promised to be at the coming of Christ, when _life and immortality_ should be brought to light through the gospel, 2...
Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Ninth "And they who believed from the eighth mountain, where were the many fountains, and where all the creatures of God drank of the fountains, were the following: apost...
1 Peter 1:10 Of G4012 this G3739 salvation G4991 prophets G4396 inquired G1567 (G5656) and G2532 carefully G1830 ...
THE GREAT PRIVILEGE AND BLESSING THAT IS THEIRS AS GOD'S ELECT WHICH EVEN ANGELS DESIRE TO LOOK INTO (1 PETER 1:3). The result of God's foreknowing of us, and of the sanctifying work of the Spirit is...
‘Concerning which salvation the prophets searched intently and enquired diligently, who prophesied of the grace that (should come) to you.' This salvation which is on offer is not something newfangled...
THIS SALVATION IS WHAT THE PROPHETS SAW BEFORE ITS TIME AS THEY PREPARED THE WAY FOR HIS COMING (1 PETER 1:10). Peter now stresses that what the prophets saw ahead in previous centuries was pointing t...
The paragraph which now follows deals with the relation of the prophets to the salvation of which they prophesied. The salvation itself, however, continues to be the foremost thing. The notice of the...
1 Peter 1:10. WITH REGARD TO WHICH SALVATION. The _salvation_ here in view is the salvation already introduced first as ‘ready to be revealed in the last time,' and then as a ‘salvation of souls.' It...
CONCERNING WHICH SALVATION (περ ης σωτηριας). Another relative clause (taking up σωτηρια from verse 1 Peter 1:9 and incorporating it) in this long sentence (verses 1 Peter 1:3-12, inclusive, all con...
SALVATION (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
1 Peter 1:10 I. The prophets are an example to us in the study of salvation (1) in the intention of their study; (2) in the subject of their study; (3) in the noble spirit of resignation they evinced...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,_ It must have been very pleasant to his heart to write those words, not «Peter, who denied his Master,» not Peter, «full of imperfections and infirmit...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ._ These are his credentials from him who is Prince of the kings of the earth. _To the strangers scattered_ abroad, of whose tragic dispersion we have spo...
IT WAS CONCERNING. The prophets did not understand the symbols and words which the Spirit spoke through them. They prophesied about the Messiah and salvation, and then tried to understand the message...
_Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently._ SALVATION-THE CENTRAL SUBJECT OF STURDY I. The prophets as examples to us in the study of salvation. 1. The intensity of thei...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:3 Called to Salvation as Exiles. Believers must praise God for his promised salvation and live out that salvation daily. ⇐
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:10 The OT PROPHETS did not know when their prophecies would come true, but they did foretell that Christ would suffer and then be glorified. See Overview of the Bible....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 1:3. BLESSED BE.—A characteristic Jewish recognition of God’s mercy. Compare with 2 Corinthians 1:3; Ephesians 1:3. ABUNDANT.—πολὺ, much. BEGOTTEN US.—The choic...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 1:1 PETER. It is the Greek form of the name, which the Lord Jesus himself had given to the great apostle; first, by anticipation, in the spirit of prophecy (John 1:42); and again...
Tonight let's turn to First Peter chapter one. Of the many disciples that were following Jesus, He chose twelve to be apostles. One of the twelve that was chosen as an apostle was Simon Peter. Simon P...
1 Peter 1:11; 2 Peter 1:19; Acts 10:43; Acts 13:27; Acts 17:11;...
Have inquired and searched diligently [ε ξ ε ζ η τ η σ α ν - ε ξ η ρ ε υ ν η σ α ν]. Rev., properly, renders the aorists sought and searched diligently. The ejx in composition has the force of out, se...
JOY UNSPEAKABLE AND FULL OF GLORY 1 Peter 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As Peter opens his First Epistle he speaks of the strangers scattered throughout certain countries, then he goes on to tell us some...
STRENGTHENING THE BRETHREN 1 Peter 1:10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction we wish to emphasize the concluding message of our last sermon. 1 Peter 1:7 tells us of the trial of faith. It is de...
THE BOOK OF BOOKS 1 Peter 1:10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is said on one occasion, when Sir Walter Scott was sick, he called his son requesting him to bring him THE book. His son said, "Your library is...
Of which salvation — So far beyond all that was experienced under the Jewish dispensation. The very prophets who prophesied long ago of the grace of God toward you — Of his abundant, overflowing grace...