Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
1 Peter 2:23
who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, he threatened not, but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously;
who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, he threatened not, but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously;
Verse 23. _BUT COMMITTED_ HIMSELF] Though he could have inflicted any kind of punishment on his persecutors, yet to give _us_, in this respect also, an example that we should follow his steps, _he co...
WHO, WHEN HE WAS REVILED, REVILED NOT AGAIN - He did not use harsh and opprobrious words in return for those which he received: (1) He was reviled. He was accused of being a seditious man; spoken of...
III. CHRIST THE PATTERN FOR HIS SAINTS CHAPTER 2:11-3:9 _ 1. Abstinence and submission (1 Peter 2:11)_ 2. Christ the pattern for those who suffer (1 Peter 2:18) 3. Glorifying Christ in the marriage...
This is one of the noblest passages in the NT _on_ the real meaning of service. It raised the position of slave at one moment to the highest honour. A man could take all degradation out of it, for he...
REVILED. Greek. _loidoreo._ See John 9:28. REVILED... AGAIN. Greek. _antiloidoreo._ Only here. THREATENED. See Acts 4:17. COMMITTED. See John 19:30. JUDGETH. App-122. righteously
_Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again_ Here again, though we have no direct quotation, it is impossible to overlook the allusive reference to the silence of the sufferer as portrayed in Isaiah...
ΟΥ̓Κ�. The imperfects ἀντελοιδόρει, ἠπείλει, παρεδίδου are sometimes explained as denoting the habitual attitude of the life of Christ as opposed to the one definite act of the crucifixion ἀνήνεγκεν....
B. SOCIAL DUTIES. 1 Peter 2:13 to 1 Peter 3:12 13 This warfare against heathen principles of living does not mean the subversion of the necessary bonds of society. Rather it deepens and intensifies...
ΛΟΙΔΟΡΟΎΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. pass. part. от_ ΛΟΙΔΟΡΈΩ (G3058) злоупотреблять, оскорблять, хулить или ругать кого-л., злословить (TLNT; TDNT; Τ; GELTS, 284). _Praes. part._ обозначает действие, которое произв...
DISCOURSE: 2397 HOW TO BEAR INJURIES 1 Peter 2:19. This is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your fa...
WHO, WHEN HE WAS REVILED, &C.— Our Lord, during the course of his teaching and ministry, pronounced dreadful woes and denunciations against the wicked and hypocritical Scribes and Pharisees: but when...
_2. TOWARD MASTERS 2:18-25_ 1 Peter 2:18 Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. _Expanded Translation_ You domestic serva...
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: Servants are apt to 'answer again' (). Threats of divine jud...
VERSE 23. WHO, WHEN HE WAS REVILED. When reviled by the Jews no words of resentment were by him used. When he was crucified, he did not threaten his persecutors, but meekly committed his cause to God...
21 Following in the footprints left by our Lord while He was on earth is often taken as the ideal of human deportment for believers in Christ. And so it is-for the Circumcision, to whom Peter writes....
2:23 into (i-15) The Greek means to deliver up into the hands of another, not committing a wrong to another to vindicate. The sense must be 'gave himself up to, suffered all, as accepting all from hi...
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...
A servant is someone who works for someone else. This other person pays the servants for their work. These verses are for all people who work for an employer. Christians should behave better than othe...
This is how Jesus behaved (Matthew 27:13-14). Christians must follow his example....
WHO, WHEN HE WAS REVILED. — This “who” might be rendered by _and yet He._ Conscious though He was of being blameless (John 8:46), it did not make Him retaliate upon His accusers by counter-accusations...
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...
CHAPTER 8 CHRISTIAN SERVICE 1 Peter 2:18 THE Gospel history shows very clearly that during our Lord's lifetime His followers were drawn largely from the ranks of the poor. It was fitting that He who...
Combination of the Scripture οὐκ ἀνοίγει τὸ στόμα (Isaiah 43:7) with the saying ὅταν ὀνειδίσωσιν και διώξωσιν (Matthew 5:11). For λοιδ. _cf._ 1 Corinthians 4:12. λοιδορούμενοι εὐλογοῦμεν of Matt. _l.c...
FOLLOWING THE SHEPHERD OF SOULS 1 Peter 2:18 The argument from this point seems to be: Since you have been redeemed, live worthily of your heavenly calling in relation to your fellow-believers, to Go...
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...
THE LORD SUFFERED DESPITE LIVING SINLESSLY Peter, in 2:22, quoted from the LXX rendering of Isaiah 53:9. Woods says the word translated "committed no" is from the Greek meaning never even once. Kelcy...
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but (24) committed [himself] to him (25) that judgeth righteously: (24) He shows them a remedy against injuries, that...
Christ, who was incapable of sinning, did not revile [7] them that reviled him; he suffered all with patience; he willingly gave himself up to Pontius Pilate, that judged him, and condemned him unjust...
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: (22) Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: (23) Who, when...
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...
_THE PURPOSE OF THE INCARNATION_ ‘For even hereunto were ye called; because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow His steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile foun...
_THE EXALTED CHRIST_ ‘Christ also suffered for us … the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.’ 1 Peter 2:21 The Head of the Church is exalted to heaven, and we His members are called upon to look up t...
23_When he was reviled, _or, _reproached_. Here Peter points out what we are to imitate in Christ, even calmly to bear wrongs, and not to avenge wrongs. For such is our disposition, that when we recei...
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...
WHO WHEN HE WAS REVILED, REVILED NOT AGAIN,.... When he was reproached as a glutton, a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners, all the reply he made was, that Wisdom is justified of her childre...
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed _himself_ to him that judgeth righteously: Ver. 23. _But committed himself_] Or, the whole matter. We a...
_For even hereunto_ Namely, to suffer wrongfully, and to bear such treatment with patience and meekness; _are ye_ Christians _called; because Christ_ Whose followers you profess to be, pure and spotle...
TO HIM; God, who although he commands his people to manifest a Christian spirit towards all, will nevertheless condemn and punish those who oppress or injure them. Matthew 25:40-46. The commands of Go...
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...
COMMITTED HIMSELF: Or, committed his cause...
_ 1 Peter 2:23 ‘and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to him who judges righteously;'_ ‘WHILE BEING REVILED' -At the...
18-25 Servants in those days generally were slaves, and had heathen masters, who often used them cruelly; yet the apostle directs them to be subject to the masters placed over them by Providence, wit...
By Christ's being REVILED, we are to understand all those injurious words, reproaches, slanders, blasphemies, which his persecutors cast out against him. REVILED NOT AGAIN; therefore when he told the...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians For say ye to those that hate you, Ye are our brethren, that the name of the Lord may be glorified. And let us imitate the Lord, "who, when He was reviled, revile...
1 Peter 2:23 who G3739 reviled G3058 (G5746) did G486 not G3756 return G486 (G5707) suffered G3958 ...
‘Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth, who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered he threatened not; but committed himself to him who judges righteously,' Let them i...
1 Peter 2:23. WHO, WHEN REVILED, REVILED NOT AGAIN; WHEN SUFFERING, THREATENED NOT. Peter continues to speak partly under the influence of Isaiah's description (Isaiah 53:7 seems clearly in his mind,...
The household is next dealt with as an institution obviously included under the ‘every ordinance of man' (1 Peter 2:13). And in the house the duty of servants is first declared. The bond-servant forme...
WHEN HE WAS REVILED (λοιδορουμενος). Present passive participle of λοιδορεω, old verb (from λοιδορος, reviler, 1 Corinthians 5:11) as in John 9:28.REVILED NOT AGAIN (ουκ αντελοιδορε). Imperfect ac...
Peter is very practical in his Epistles. In the early days of the faith, Christians occupied a far more difficult and dangerous position than they do today. They were few in number, and greatly despis...
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...
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...
HE DID NOT ANSWER BACK. "Christ was insulted by the Jewish leaders, but he did not answer them back with an insult!" HE DID NOT THREATEN. "When he suffered crucifixion, he did not threaten, even thoug...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 2:22 This crucial verse emphasizes Christ’s sinlessness (COMMITTED NO SIN) and his substitutionary death for sinners (compare 1 Peter 3:18; s
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 2:18. SERVANTS.—Slaves. Many of the early Christians came from the ranks of slaves, or freedmen. And their freedom in Christ made their bondage to an earthly ma...
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 Peter 4:19; 2 Thessalonians 1:5; 2 Timothy 1:12; 2 Timothy 4:8;...
Reviled - again [α ν τ ε λ ο ι δ ο ρ ε ι]. Only here in the New Testament. Committed himself [π α ρ ε δ ι δ ο υ]. But his gives a reflexive force to the verb which has no parallel. Commentators are di...