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1 Peter 3:21
The like figure whereunto even Baptism doth also now save us, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
The like figure whereunto even Baptism doth also now save us, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
1 PETER 3:21 o[ {A} Despite the difficulty of construing o[, the Committee felt obliged to accept it as the text, (_a_) because it is strongly and widely supported by ac A B C K P Y 33 81 614 1739 _B...
Verse 21. _THE LIKE FIGURE WHEREUNTO_, c.] Dr. Macknight has translated this verse so as to make the meaning more clear: _By_ _which_ (water) _the antitype baptism_ (_not the putting away of the_ _fil...
THE LIKE FIGURE WHEREUNTO, EVEN BAPTISM, DOTH ALSO NOW SAVE US - There are some various readings here in the Greek text, but the sense is not essentially varied. Some have proposed to read (ῷ hō) t...
IV. THE COMFORT IN THE MIDST OF TRIALS AND SUFFERING CHAPTER 3:10-4:19 _ 1. The comfort in suffering (1 Peter 3:10)_ 2. Few saved as illustrated by Noah's preaching (1 Peter 3:18) 3. The new life i...
Christ Himself suffered injustice at the hands of men, but see how splendid the result! All salvation everywhere in the universe is the result of His suffering and sacrifice, and these have raised Him...
For Christ also died once and for all for our sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but he was raised to life in the Spirit, in which also he...
;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. For Christ also died once and for all for sins, the just for the unjust, that he m...
THE SILENT PREACHING OF A LOVELY LIFE (1 Peter 3:1-2)...
THE LIKE FIGURE, &C. Literally Which (i.e. water; the relative, being neuter, can only refer to the word "water") being antitypical (Greek. _antitupos,_ here and Hebrews 9:24). BAPTISM. App-115. ALS...
_The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us_ The MSS. present two readings; one that of the _Textus Receptus_, answering to the English Version as giving the relative pronoun in the...
ὃ is omitted by א* 73 aeth. but is read by all the best authorities. The T.R. reads ᾦ which is found in several cursives, and Hort regards ὅ as a primitive error for ᾧ on the ground that it is impossi...
1 Peter 3:17 to 1 Peter 4:6. _The blessedness of suffering in the flesh_ The interpretation suggested for this confessedly difficult passage may be best explained by a paraphrase of the whole section...
1 Peter 3:13 to 1 Peter 4:6. GOOD AND EVIL DOING IN RELATION TO SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF HEATHEN, ILLUSTRATED BY THE SUFFERINGS OR CHRIST AND THEIR EFFECTS...
ΆΝΤΊΤΎΠΟΣ (G499) отпечаток, η. _adj._ используется как имя (Goppelt). Это слово обозначает полное соответствие между печатью и краской (Sewlyn; ММ; Hebrews 9:24). ΣΏΖΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΣΦΖΩ (G4...
DISCOURSE: 2404 NOAH’S ARK A TYPE OF CHRIST 1 Peter 3:21. _The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us_. GOD has marked the necessity of holiness no Jess by the dispensations of his...
THE LIKE FIGURE WHEREUNTO, &C.— _And that which is the antetype, even baptism, doth also now save us_ (_not the putting off the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience_) _to God, by,_...
1 PETER 3:21 WHICH ALSO AFTER A TRUE LIKENESS DOTH NOW SAVE YOU, EVEN BAPTISM, NOT THE PUTTING AWAY OF THE FILTH OF THE FLESH, BUT THE INTERROGATION OF A GOOD CONSCIENCE TOWARD GOD, THROUGH THE RESURR...
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: W...
VERSE 21. THE LIKE FIGURE WHEREUNTO EVEN BAPTISM. The saving of Noah and family by water, Peter says, is a figure of baptism, which he affirms doth also now save us. God saved Noah by water because he...
19 Who are these imprisoned spirits ? Are they not the same that Peter mentions in his second epistle (1Pe_2:4) who were thrust down to the gloomy caverns of Tartarus, and the messengers of Jude's epi...
3:21 demand (n-20) Or 'engagement,' or 'testimony.' The Greek word here translated 'demand' is a very difficult one, and has puzzled all critics and commentators. It means 'a question.' All the comme...
THE BLESSEDNESS OF CHRIST'S PEOPLE, THOUGH THEY SHOULD SUFFER LIKE CHRIST _B_ (iii). 1 Peter 3:1. Another divinely created ordinance of man is marriage. One of the purposes of Christianity was to teac...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 3 WIVES AND HUSBANDS v1 You wives must respect and obey your own husbands. Some husbands do not obey God’s word. When they see your good beh...
The story about Noah and the flood is in Genesis 6:11-9. Noah was a *righteous man, but the rest of the people at that time were wicked. God decided to destroy the wicked people. He told Noah to build...
*Baptism does not make someone a Christian. Their *faith in Jesus Christ does. But *baptism is a sign of what has happened. The water is like the flood that washed away all the evil in the days of Noa...
THE LIKE FIGURE WHEREUNTO EVEN BAPTISM DOTH ALSO NOW SAVE US. — There are two undoubted false readings in this sentence which must be cleared away before we can consider the meaning. First, the word “...
CHAPTER 11 THE REWARDS OF SUFFERING FOR WELL-DOING 1 Peter 3:17 THE Apostle comes back to his solemn subject. Why are the righteous called to suffering? The question was perplexing these Asian Chris...
Baptism is generally the antitype of the deliverance of Noah. Christians pass _through water_ (in both senses) to salvation; in each microcosm are the sins which must be washed away and the remnant wh...
FOLLOWING CHRIST IN BEARING INJUSTICE 1 Peter 3:13 It was said of Archbishop Cranmer that the way to make him a life-long friend was to do him some disservice, and surely these words of the Apostle h...
The marriage relation was then dealt with, and special emphasis was laid on the fact that the true adornment of woman is found in her character rather than in her dress. Husbands are charged to dwell...
BAPTISM, THE ANTITYPE Through the water, Noah and his family were taken from a world full of wickedness to a newly cleansed world. They were saved from the destruction brought on by man's sin. They w...
(23) The like figure whereunto [even] baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward (p) God), (24) by the resurrection of Je...
Baptism, &c. That is, the ark was a figure of baptism, which saveth you from the death of the soul; and as no one was saved from the waters of the deluge but those few eight persons who were in the ar...
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; (20) Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, where...
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...
21_The like figure whereunto _I fully think that the relative ought to be read in the dative case, and that it has happened, through a mistake, that ὃ is put, and not ᾧ. The meaning, however, is not a...
After this general exhortation, brief but important to believers, the apostle takes up the relative walk of Christians in a world where on the one hand God watches over all, yet where He permits His o...
THE LIKE FIGURE WHEREUNTO [EVEN] BAPTISM DOTH ALSO NOW SAVE US,.... The ark, and deliverance by it, as it was a type of Christ, and salvation by him, so it was a figure of baptism, and baptism was the...
The like figure whereunto _even_ baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: V...
_The like figure whereunto_ Αντιτυπον, _the antitype whereof_, that is, the thing which corresponds, not with the water, but with the ark; _even baptism doth now save us_ Or is the instrument of our s...
THE LIKE FIGURE WHEREUNTO, EVEN BAPTISM; or, baptism, the antitype of which; that is, baptism which was in a certain way foreshadowed in the salvation of Noah and his family by water. NOT THE PUTTING...
There is similar instruction for wives, for theirs is the subject place, certainly not as slaves to a master, but as joined to their "own husbands," a most-intimate and precious relationship. Because...
_ 1 Peter 3:21 ‘And corresponding to that, baptism now saves you---not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for. good conscience---through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,'_ ‘CORR...
14-22 We sanctify God before others, when our conduct invites and encourages them to glorify and honour him. What was the ground and reason of their hope? We should be able to defend our religion wit...
THE LIKE FIGURE; Greek, the antitype. Twice this word occurs in Scripture; once HEBREWS 9:24, where it signifies simply a type, or exemplar, or representation; and here, where it implies either the li...
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh its sanctification comes from the "answer."[349] Tertullian On Modesty The "ring" also he is then Wont to receive for the first time, wherewith, after be...
1 Peter 3:21 also G2532 antitype G499 which G3739 now G3568 saves G4982 (G5719) baptism G908 not G3756 removal...
‘Which water after a true likeness (or ‘echo') also now saves you, (even baptism, which is not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation (or ‘answer' or ‘consultation') of a go...
THE GROUNDS OF THEIR CONFIDENCE IN THE FACE OF THE POWERS THAT ARE AGAINST THEM (1 PETER 3:18). If we are to understand the significance of the verses that follow it is important that we recognise the...
1 Peter 3:21. WHICH ALSO IN THE ANTITYPE NOW SAVES YOU, NAMELY BAPTISM. The rendering of the A. V., ‘the like figure _whereunto,'_ follows a reading which is now given up. The best authorities also su...
WHICH ALSO (ο κα). Water just mentioned.AFTER A TRUE LIKENESS (αντιτυπον). Water in baptism now as an anti-type of Noah's deliverance by water. For βαπτισμα see on Matthew 3:7. For αντιτυπον see o...
1 Peter 3:21 A Good Conscience. These words are very wide words, too wide to please most people. They preach a very free grace, too free to please most people. Man preaches his own notions of God's f...
CONTENTS: Duties of husbands and wives toward one another. Exhortations to Christian consistency. Christ's vicarious sacrifice. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Sara, Abraham. CONCLUSION: Worldl...
1 Peter 3:1. _Ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands._ The same words occur in Ephesians 5:22. Col 3:18. The excellence of piety is pleaded here, as the first ornament of a wife. Wisdom conne...
WHICH WAS A FIGURE. "The water of the flood itself, which held them safe in the ark, was a figure pointing to baptism which now saves you!" _Alford_ (Greek Testament) says: "Water saved them, bearing...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 3:21 Peter compares salvation in the ark and BAPTISM. In both, believers are saved through the waters of judgment, since baptism portrays salvation through judgment. Baptism SA...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 3:15. LORD GOD.—Probably better, “Lord Christ.” “To sanctify Christ or God was to count His name as holy above all other names, His fear as the only fear which...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 3:1 LIKEWISE, YE WIVES. St. Peter has spoken of the duties of servants: why does he omit those of masters? There must have been Christian masters in Asia Minor, as is plain from...
Shall we turn now to First Peter chapter three as Peter addresses himself to the wives? This particular section goes back to verse thirteen of chapter two, Submit yourself to every ordinance of man fo...
1 Corinthians 12:13; 1 Corinthians 4:6; 1 Peter 1:3; 1 Timothy 6:12;...
The like figure whereunto. Following a rejected reading, w, to which; so that the literal rendering would be the antitype to which. Read o ajntitupon, which, the antitype or as an antitype; i e., whic...
The antitype whereof — The thing typified by the ark, even baptism, now saveth us — That is, through the water of baptism we are saved from the sin which overwhelms the world as a flood: not, indeed,...
Observe here, 1. The type and the anti-type, the ark and baptism; their salvation from the deluge, by the ark, prefigureth our salvation from God's wrath by baptism. As all that were without the ark p...