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1 Peter 2:2
as new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the Word, that ye may grow thereby;
as new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the Word, that ye may grow thereby;
1 PETER 2:2 eivj swthri,an The Textus Receptus, following L and most minuscules, omits eivj swthri,an either through an oversight in copying (eic…eie) or because the idea of “growing into salvation”...
Verse 1 Peter 2:2. _AS NEW-BORN BABES_] In the preceding chapter, 1 Peter 1:23, the apostle states that they had been _born again_; and as the new-born infant desires that aliment which nature has pr...
AS NEW-BORN BABES - The phrase used here would properly denote those which were just born, and hence Christians who had just begun the spiritual life. See the word explained in the notes at 2 Timothy...
II. THE BLESSINGS AND PRIVILEGES OF ALL BELIEVERS CHAPTER 1:22-2:10 _ 1. The new birth (1 Peter 1:22)_ 2. Spiritual growth (1 Peter 2:1) 3. The privileges of believers as the holy and royal priesth...
1 Peter 1:22 to 1 Peter 2:10. The Christians, who were formerly pagans, are created a new race in Christ Jesus, and consecrated as a special priesthood of service to the whole world. Their life must b...
NEWBORN. Greek. _artigennetos._ Only here. BABES. App-108. DESIRE. earnestly desire. Greek. _epipotheo._ See Romans 1:11. Compare Proverbs 2:1. SINCERE. Greek. _adolos_. without guile. Only here. M...
_as newborn babes_ The Greek noun, like the English, implies the earliest stage of infancy. See Luke 1:41; Luke 1:44; Luke 2:12; Luke 2:16. the sincere milk of the wor
ὩΣ�, _as new-born babes_. The words evidently refer to ἀναγεγεννημένοι in 1 Peter 1:23. βρέφη is nowhere else used in this figurative sense, the usual word employed being νήπιοι. ἀρτιγέννητα also occu...
INTRODUCTORY EXHORTATION FOUNDED UPON THE BENEDICTION 1 Peter 1:13 to 1 Peter 2:10 13–25. 13 The new life of hope, faith and privilege to which you have been begotten involves corresponding responsi...
ΆΡΤΙΓΈΝΝΗΤΟΣ (G738) младенец, новорожденный, ΒΡΈΦΟΣ (G1025) ребенок, дитя. Это ребенок, которого кормят грудью (Goppelt), ΛΟΓΙΚΌΣ (G3050) то, что принадлежит слову. Есть три возможных толкования это...
DISCOURSE: 2391 GROWTH IN GRACE IS TO BE DESIRED 1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as new-born babes, desire the sin...
WHEREFORE, LAYING ASIDE ALL MALICE, &C.— _Wherefore renouncing all ill-nature, all fraud, dissimulation, envy, and detraction,_ (1 Peter 2:2.) _thirst as new-born children for the pure milk of the wor...
_7. BEING LIKE BABIES 2:2_ 1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation; _Expanded Translation_ Just as newborn babies l...
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: NEWBORN BABES - altogether without "guile" (1 Peter 2:1; Revelation 14:5); in a specially tender relation to God ...
VERSE 2. AS NEWBORN BABES, DESIRE THE SINCERE MILK OF THE WORD. What a natural figure. How grand and beautiful it is when fully apprehended and applied. The Savior said, "Except a man be born again, h...
24 Isa_40:6-8. 4 Our Lord, speaking to the chief priests and elders, told them that the kingdom of God would be taken from them and given to a nation bringing forth its fruits, in proof of which He a...
2:2 mental (a-8) The word here translated 'mental' has the sense of 'suited to the rational faculties' -- the mind in contrast with the body -- yet I believe there is allusion to _ logos_ , from which...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 V1 Therefore stop all evil behaviour. Do not cheat people. Do not pretend to be better than you are. Do not be jealous. Stop saying bad th...
Peter now describes the word of God as ‘pure *spiritual milk’. *Spiritual means linked to a person’s spirit and not to his or her physical body. A Christian should want God’s word as much as a baby wa...
AS NEWBORN BABES. — The word “newborn” is, of course, newly, lately born, not born anew, although the birth meant is the new birth of 1 Peter 1:23. They are said to be still but newborn because they a...
CHAPTER 5 CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD: ITS CHARACTER AND DUTIES 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 2:1 THAT holy lives have been lived in solitude none would venture to dispute, and that devout Christians have found...
Continuation of practical admonition with appeal to additional ground-principles illustrating the thesis of 1 Peter 1:10....
ὡς, _inasmuch as you are newborn babes: cf._ ἀναγεγεννημένοι (1 Peter 1:23). The development of the metaphor rests upon the saying, _unless ye be turned and become as the children_ (ὡς τὰ παιδία) _ye...
BUILDING ON THE PRECIOUS CORNER-STONE 1 Peter 2:1 It is easy to lay aside malice, guile and evil speaking, when we are constantly feeding on the unadulterated milk of spiritual truth. If you have ta...
In order to obey the injunctions, those to whom Peter writes are urged to put away all such things as are contrary to the spirit of love. In order to do this they will long for the sustenance of the W...
DRINKING THE MILK OF THE WORD Having emptied their lives of the above, Christians should vigorously and repeatedly seek the milk of the word, just as a baby cries for milk which is his only source of...
(2) As (a) newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: (2) The second is, that being newly begotten and born of the new seed of the incorrupt word, drinking and suck...
_Desire the rational [1] milk without guile, or deceit. Without guile, in construction, does not agree with new-born children, but with milk, as appears by the text. The sense is, follow the pure doct...
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, (2) As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: (3) If so be...
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...
2._The sincere milk of the word _This passage is commonly explained according to the rendering of Erasmus, “Milk not for the body but for the soul;” as though the Apostle reminded us by this expressio...
Thus cleansed therefore and born of the word, they were to put off all fraud, hypocrisy, envy, slander; and, as new-born babes, to seek for this milk of the understanding, in order to grow thereby (fo...
AS NEW BORN BABES,.... The Syriac version renders it, "be ye simple as infants"; and as if it was a distinct exhortation of itself, and from that which follows; though it seems rather to be descriptiv...
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: Ver. 2. _Desire the sincere_] αδολον, as in children all speak and work at once, hands, feet, mouth. See David's desir...
_Wherefore_ Since the word of God is so excellent and durable in itself, and has had such a blessed effect upon you as to regenerate you, and bring you to the enjoyment of true Christian love; _laying...
THE SINCERE MILK OF THE WORD; the pure spiritual truths of the gospel. GROW THEREBY; many of the best copies read, "grow thereby unto salvation"; that is, grow up, through the spiritual nourishment o...
Ch.2: 1 Timothy 6 Since the Word of God is the solid foundation of all, eternal blessing for us, it surely follows that we should gladly lay aside all that is contrary to It. Indeed, these evils liste...
_ 1 Peter 2:2 ‘like newborn babes, long for the pure milk of the word, that by it you may grow in respect to salvation'_ ‘LIKE NEWBORN BABES' -‘Thirst, like newborn infants' (Wey). While new converts...
1-10 Evil-speaking is a sign of malice and guile in the heart; and hinders our profiting by the word of God. A new life needs suitable food. Infants desire milk, and make the best endeavours for it w...
Pursuant to his discourse, 1 PETER 1:23, where he speaks of their new birth, he here calls them _new-born babes; _ but that not in opposition to those that are adult, or _of fall age, _ as Hebrews 5:1...
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V and into His resurrection, as "new-born babes,"[136] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII Now this interpretation about the three Apostles not tasting of...
1 Peter 2:2 as G5613 newborn G738 babes G1025 desire G1971 (G5657) pure G97 milk G1051 word G3050 that...
GOD'S PURPOSE FOR HIS BEGOTTEN AGAIN AND REDEEMED PEOPLE (1 PETER 2:1). In view of the glorious future that is theirs as previously revealed, and the responsibility that is theirs, which will now be r...
‘Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil talk, in the same way as newborn babes do, long for the unadulterated milk of the word, that by it you...
1 Peter 2:2. AS NEW-BORN BABES. Of two words for child, one of which corresponds etymologically to our ‘infant,' and means the child yet incapable of speech, and then more generally (as in Galatians 4...
AS NEWBORN BABES (ως αρτιγεννητα βρεφη). Βρεφος, old word, originally unborn child (Luke 1:41-44), then infant (Luke 2:12), here figuratively, like νηπιο. Αρτιγεννητα is a late and rare compound (Lu...
1 Peter 2:2 The Baptismal Vow. I. In our hearts and lives, the evil which we cast away is for ever returning; the truths which we have learned we are for ever forgetting; the good which we should do...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: Ha...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,-_ This is what we are to lay aside, to put away from us, to banish altogether. The...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,_ Putting these evil things right away from you, having nothing further to do with...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice,_ This is one of the old corruptible things, so put it away from you 1 Peter 2:1. _And all guile,_ All crafty tricks, all falsehood, exaggeration, do...
CONTENTS: Exhortation to holiness and growth in view of Christ's great sacrifice. Christ's vicarious sufferings. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Peter. CONCLUSION: The Word of God is the proper and necessar...
1 Peter 2:4. _To whom coming as to a living stone._ The jews boasted of their temple, an undisputed blessing. But when the christians fled from Jerusalem, they took the true, the living temple with th...
BE LIKE NEWBORN BABIES. "As newborn babies are always thirsty and eager for milk, so you who are _newborn_ in Christ must always be thirsty and eager for the pure spiritual milk of the Good News! As b...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 2:1 NEWBORN INFANTS. Peter is not saying that believers are immature in their faith. He means all Christians are to be like infants in their longing for PURE SPIRITUAL MILK, wh...
CHRISTIAN LIFE CALLS FOR THE PUTTING AWAY OF EVILS _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE Jewish Christians addressed in this epistle are thought of as “born again” into the Christian faith and life. Th...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 2:1 WHEREFORE LAYING ASIDE. Those who would wear the white robe of regeneration must lay aside the filthy garments (Zechariah 3:3) of the old carnal life. So St. Paul bids us put...
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and all envying, and all evil speakings (1 Peter 2:1), Set these things aside, we're to love one another with a pure heart fervently....
1 Corinthians 14:20; 1 Corinthians 3:1; 1 Corinthians 3:2; 1 Peter 1:23;...
New - born [α ρ τ ι γ ε ν ν η τ α]. Peculiar to Peter, and only in this passage. Lit., born but just now [α ρ τ ι]. Babes [β ρ ε φ η]. The word signifying peculiarly a child at birth, or of tender yea...
Desire — Always, as earnestly as new born babes do, 1 Peter 1:3. The milk of the word — That word of God which nourishes the soul as milk does the body, and which is sincere, pure from all guile, so t...
St. Peter having directed us, in our preparation before we come to hear the word, and shown the necessity of laying aside an evil frame of spirit, he now directs us what we are to do when under the wo...