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1 Peter 2:4
To whom coming, as unto a living Stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God and precious,
To whom coming, as unto a living Stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God and precious,
Verse 1 Peter 2:4. _TO WHOM COMING_, AS UNTO _A LIVING STONE_] This is a reference to Isaiah 28:16: _Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a_ _precious corner stone, a sure f...
TO WHOM COMING - To the Lord Jesus, for so the word “Lord” is to be understood in 1 Peter 2:3. Compare the notes at Acts 1:24. The idea here is, that they had come to him for salvation, while the grea...
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...
TO. App-104. _ AS UNTO_. Omit. LIVING. App-170. DISALLOWED. having been rejected. Greek. _apodokimazo,_ as Matthew 21:42. OF. App-104. MEN. App-123. OF. in the sight of. App-104. GOD. App-98. P...
_To whom coming, as unto a living stone_ The whole imagery changes, like a dissolving view, and in the place of the growth of babes nourished with spiritual milk, we have that of a building in which e...
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...
ΠΡῸΣ ὋΝ ΠΡΟΣΕΡΧΌΜΕΝΟΙ. The words were perhaps suggested by the LXX. of 1 Peter 2:5 of the same Psalms 34 which St Peter has just quoted προσέλθατε πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ φωτίσθητε, where the Hebrew is “they l...
ΠΡΟΣΕΡΧΌΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΠΡΟΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G4334) приходить к чему-л. _Praes. part._ используется потому, что камни продолжали появляться, один за другим (Bigg), ΖΏΝΤΑPRAES. _act. part....
DISCOURSE: 2392 THE TEMPLE A TYPE 1 Peter 2:4. _To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God and precious, ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual h...
TO WHOM COMING, AS UNTO A LIVING STONE, &C.— By _coming unto Christ_ is meant the joining oneself to him as a part of this spiritual building, or embracing his religion with the heart unto righteousne...
_8. THE LIVING STONE AND SPIRITUAL HOUSE 2:3-10_ 1 Peter 2:3-4 if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious: unto whom coming, a living stone rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious. _Ex...
To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, COMING - drawing near [ proserchomenoi (G4334)] (Hebrews 10:22) by faith continually; present: no...
VERSE 4. TO WHOM COMING, AS UNTO A LIVING STONE. Coming to Christ Jesus in the way he has appointed. So coming, we reach what? A living stone. Here is food for thought. In the New Testament Scriptures...
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...
‘You come’ means to come and *worship Jesus (Hebrews 4:10). Peter called Jesus ‘the Stone that is living’. Christians do not *worship someone who is dead. Most people did not believe or trust Jesus, b...
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 refers back to the *Old Testament. King Solomon built a temple in the city of Jerusalem about 950 years before the birth of Jesus (BC) (1 Kings 6-8). The temple was a special building where the...
TO WHOM COMING. — The word used is that which gives rise to the name of a “proselyte.” (Comp. Note on 1 Peter 2:2.) It is also strangely used in something of the same sense in 1 Timothy 6:3. “Joining...
CHAPTER 6 THE PRIESTHOOD OF BELIEVERS 1 Peter 2:4 LEAVING the exhortation to individual duties, the Apostle turns now to describe the Christian society in relation to its Divine Founder, and tells b...
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....
πρὸς ὃν προσερχ. from Psalms 34:6, προσελθόντες πρὸς αὐτὸν (Heb. and Targum, _they looked unto Him_; Syriac, _look ye._ …). Cyprian uses Isaiah 2:2 f.; Psalms 23:3 f. to prove that the stone becomes a...
Passages of scripture proving that Christ is called stone are first utilised, then quoted, and finally expounded. The transition from _milk_ to the _stone_ may be explained by the prophecy _the hills...
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...
CHRIST, "A LIVING STONE" In the Christian's constant seeking after the milk of the word, he will be coming again and again to the Lord. Peter described Him as "a living stone." Christ is a living ston...
(4) To whom coming, [as unto] a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, [and] precious, (4) He advances the same exhortation, but uses another kind of borrowed speech, alluding to t...
_The living stone, rejected, &c. Christ is the chief foundation of his Church, the corner-stone of the building, whom the Jews, and other obstinate unbelievers, reject to their own condemnation and de...
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...
_PETER AND THE CHURCH_ ‘To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthoo...
_To whom coming, _is not to be referred simply to God, but to him as he is revealed to us in the person of Christ. Now, it cannot be but that the grace of God must powerfully draw us to himself and in...
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...
TO WHOM COMING, AS UNTO A LIVING STONE,.... Christ here, as often elsewhere, is compared to a "stone"; and Peter, by the use of this metaphor, shows that he is not the rock, but Christ is the rock on...
To whom coming, _as unto_ a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, _and_ precious, Ver. 4. _As unto a living stone_] Living and all quickening, as Acts 7:38. Lively, that is, life...
_To whom coming_ With desire and by faith; _as unto a living stone_ Living from eternity; alive from the dead; and alive for evermore: and a firm foundation, communicating spiritual life to those that...
A LIVING STONE; Christ, the foundation of the church and of the hopes of his people. Psalms 118:22; ISAIAH 28:16; ISAIAH 53:5....
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 2:4 ‘And coming to Him as to. living stone, rejected by men, but choice and precious in the sight of God,'_ ‘AND COMING TO HIM' -‘indicating. “close” and an habitual (present participle) app...
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...
TO WHOM; to which Christ. COMING; by faith: q.d. In whom believing, 1 THESSALONIANS 6:35,44,45. The word is in the present tense, the apostle describing here not their first conversion to Christ, but...
Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third of the stones that were dragged out of the depths, they placed in the building just as they were: for they were polished and fitted exactly into the other stones, and...
1 Peter 2:4 Coming G4334 (G5740) to G4314 Him G3739 living G2198 (G5723) stone G3037 rejected G593 ...
‘To whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious,' For if they have truly tasted that the Lord is gracious they will come to Him as the One Who is the ‘living' cor...
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...
1 Peter 2:4. TO WHOM COMING. The relative form of the sentence indicates its intimate connection with the previous section. The connection, however, is not between an exhortation and a statement of pr...
UNTO WHOM (προς ον). The Lord, carrying on the imagery and language of the Psalm.COMING (προσερχομενο). Present middle participle masculine plural of προσερχομα (προσελθατε in the Psalm) agreeing...
1 Peter 2:4 The Living Stone. I. Note the Church, or spiritual temple, in its foundation: Christ. II. The Church, or spiritual temple, in its superstructure. III. The Church, or spiritual temple,...
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,_ 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...
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, 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,-_ This is what we are to lay aside, to put away from us, to banish altogether. The...
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...
THE LIVING STONE. Compare Romans 9:32-33; Mark 12:10-11. Christ is a living stone because he has _life_ (John 1:4), and he gives this life to those who believe in him, and they become living stones ...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 2:4 AS YOU COME TO HIM indicates a daily personal relationship with Christ. LIVING STONE. Jesus is the foundation of God’s new temple. He is God’s elect (CHOSEN) one. H
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 2:4.—The figure is now changed, and the apostle deals with the Christian Church rather than the Christian individual. Two things were present to his mind—the 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 1:19; 1 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 2:7; 2 Peter 1:1; 2 Peter 1:4;...
Coming [π ρ ο σ ε ρ χ ο μ ε ν ο ι]. Indicating a close [π ρ ο ς] and an habitual (present participle) approach and an intimate association. A living stone [λ ι θ ο ν ζ ω ν τ α]. Omit as unto. So Rev....
CHRIST THE LIVING STONE 1 Peter 2:4 INTRODUCTORY WORDS One of the striking beauties of the Word of God, is the commonplace similitudes which abound in its writings. It is marvelous how the Holy Spi...
To whom coming — By faith. As unto a living stone — Living from eternity; alive from the dead. There is a wonderful beauty and energy in these expressions, which describe Christ as a spiritual foundat...
Observe here, 1. The denomination, or title, given to Christ, he is styled. LIVING STONE, and THE CHIEF CORNER-STONE. 1. A LIVING STONE, that is,. lively stone, no dead foundation;. life-giving stone...