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1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring Lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour;
Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring Lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour;
1 PETER 5:8 @tina# katapiei/n {C} After zhtw/n there are three main variant readings: (_a_) tina katapiei/n “[seeking] someone to devour”; (_b_) ti,na katapi,h| “[seeking] whom he may devour”; and (_...
Verse 8. _BE SOBER_] Avoid _drunkenness_ of your _senses_, and _drunkenness_ in your _souls_; be not _overcharged_ with the concerns of the world. _BE VIGILANT_] Awake, and keep awake; be always _wat...
BE SOBER - While you cast your cares Upon God, and have no anxiety on that score, let your solicitude be directed to another point. Do not doubt that he is able and willing to support and befriend you...
V. EXHORTATIONS CONCERNING SERVICE AND CONFLICT CHAPTER 5 _ 1. As to Christian service (1 Peter 5:1)_ 2. Conflict and victory (1 Peter 5:8) 3. The conclusion (1 Peter 5:12)...
Further counsels to watchfulness, and to sympathy, closing with a renewed promise of God's reward, and a short doxology. 1 PETER 5:8. SEEKING WHOM: the rendering seeking someone to devour, founded o...
THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH (1 Peter 5:1-4)...
So, then, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God that in his good time he may exalt you. Cast all your anxiety upon him because he cares for you. Be sober; be watchful. Your adversary the devi...
BE SOBER. See 1 Peter 1:13. BE VIGILANT. Greek. _gregoreo._ Translated "watch", except here and 1 Thessalonians 5:10 (wake). ROARING. Greek. _oruomai._ Only here. Compare 2 Co
_Be sober, be vigilant_ The two words are found in a like juxtaposition in 1 Thessalonians 5:6. The tense used here implies an immediate act, as though he said, "Rouse yourselves to sobriety and watch...
ΝΉΨΑΤΕ, ΓΡΗΓΟΡΉΣΑΤΕ. Such absence of anxiety, such self-abandonment to God’s care does not warrant any slackness or want of watchfulness, cf. 1 Thessalonians 5:6. Here νήψατε is more metaphorical, cf....
6 The way therefore to attain true greatness, to be exalted in God’s good time, is to humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, submitting patiently to whatever trials He sends you; 7 casting...
ΝΉΨΑΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΝΉΠΩ (G3525) быть трезвым, ΓΡΗΓΟΡΉΣΑΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΓΡΗΓΟΡΈΩ (G1127) бодрствовать, быть наблюдательным, быть настороже. _Aor. imper._ действует как сигнал тревог...
DISCOURSE: 2414 THE MEANS OF DEFEATING SATAN’S MALICE 1 Peter 5:8. _Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist...
BE SOBER, BE VIGILANT, &C.— They were not so to cast all their care upon God, as to be off their guard, or to indulge in any vice; they were to _watch,_ like soldiers encamped near an enemy, lest they...
1 PETER 5:8-9 BE SOBER, BE WATCHFUL: YOUR ADVERSARY THE DEVIL, AS A ROARING LION, WALKETH ABOUT, SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR; WHOM WITHSTAND STEDFAST IN YOUR FAITH, KNOWING THAT THE SAME SUFFERINGS ARE...
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Peter has in mind Christ's warning to watch against Satan, from forgetting whi...
VERSE 8. BE SOBER, BE VIGILANT. Observe temperance in all things. Rule with vigor all passions of the mind and passions of the body. Be vigilant; that is, careful, watchful, always on the guard. The...
5 The apron was apart of a slave's uniform which distinguished him as a slave and which he put on when he went to work. Humility serves (Joh_13:1-16) and service tests humility. 7 The writer was loath...
5:8 vigilant, (d-2) Or 'be humbled,' aorist; also 'vigilant,' 'watch,' and 'resist' refer to characters to be won. see Note g, ver. 2....
ENCOURAGEMENTS TO SHEPHERDS AND TO FLOCK. PROMISE OF GOD'S PROTECTION. FAREWELLS _B_. 1 Peter 5:1. 'To behave well in this trial you must preserve discipline. Let old and young, rulers and ruled, do...
Christians cannot be lazy when they have given their worries to God. The devil always looks for people to attack. Christians must be ready for action. ‘The devil is your enemy’ because he opposes Chri...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 5 ELDERS AND YOUNG MEN v1 So, I want to encourage the elders among you. I also am an elder. I actually saw Christ when he suffered. When he...
V. (1-11) FURTHER EXHORTATIONS SUGGESTED BY THE CRISIS. — The officers of the community are not to flinch from the duties imposed upon them, nor yet to perform them in any spirit of self-assertion. T...
BE SOBER, BE VIGILANT. — Single words in the Greek, and in the tense which bespeaks _immediate_ attention. The best text omits the following “because.” These are the sudden cries of warning of a sheph...
CHAPTER 18 THROUGH PERILS TO VICTORY 1 Peter 5:8 NOT only had these Asian Christians to suffer from the opposition and calumnies of the heathen and from the estrangement of former friends: there wer...
νήψατε γρηγορήσατε, _cf._ 1 Peter 1:13; 1 Peter 4:7. So St. Paul, γρηγορῶμεν καὶ νήφωμεν … ἡμέρας ὄντες νήφωμεν (1 Thessalonians 5:6;...
RESISTING THE DEVIL 1 Peter 5:8 We hear of the adversary in Zechariah 3:1. The enemy of Christ desires to hurt the Shepherd by injuring His flock. The hunger of a lion for his prey is an emblem of th...
Finally, the apostle proceeded to strengthen his brethren for conflict. The first matter dealt with was the general orderliness of the Church. He enjoined the elders that they care for the flock. Thei...
BEING WATCHFUL AND STANDING FIRM Even though Christ's followers can cast their worries upon God, they cannot go to sleep on the job and fail to be watchful for themselves. They must maintain a calm, t...
(11) Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: (11) The cruelty of Satan, who seeks by all means to devour us, is overcome...
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. (6) Humble...
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 PERSONALITY OF EVIL_ ‘Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist stedfast in the faith.’ 1 Peter 5:8 ‘You...
8_Be sober _This explanation extends wider, that as we have war with a most fierce and most powerful enemy, we are to be strenuous in resisting him. But he uses a twofold metaphor, that they were to b...
The apostle returns to christian details. He exhorts the elders, himself an elder; for it appears that among the Jews this title was rather characteristic than official. (Compare 1 Peter 5:5.) He exho...
BE SOBER, BE VIGILANT,.... The apostle had exhorted to each of these before; see 1 Peter 1:13 but thought fit to repeat them; sobriety and watchfulness being exceeding necessary and useful in the Chri...
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Ver. 8. _Your adversary the devil_] Satan envies our condition that we should en...
_Be sober_ See on 1 Thessalonians 5:6. Keep your appetites and passions under proper restraint and government, or _awake_, as υηψανε also signifies; namely, to a deep sense of the certainty and import...
Consistently with Peter's subject of governmental order, he now address elders in v.1, and those younger in v.5. Proper balance in this relationship is always deeply important, for on either side fric...
_1 Peter 5:8 ‘Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like. roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.'_ ‘BE OF SOBER SPIRIT' -‘temperate, circumspect' (Thayer p. 42...
5-9 Humility preserves peace and order in all Christian churches and societies; pride disturbs them. Where God gives grace to be humble, he will give wisdom, faith, and holiness. To be humble, and su...
BE SOBER: see 1 PETER 1:13, 1 PETER 4:7: q.d. Ye have to do with a mad enemy, a raging devil; ye had need yourselves be sober; not only in meats and drinks, &c., but as to the cares of this life, and...
Origen de Principiis Book III For occasionally the mind, when watchful, and casting away from it what is evil, calls to itself the aid of the good; or if it be, on the contrary, negligent and slothful...
1 Peter 5:8 sober G3525 (G5657) vigilant G1127 (G5657) because G3754 your G5216 adversary G476 devil G1228 about...
‘Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour,' And this is especially so because of the one who is rampaging around with his eye on the...
THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE WHOLE CHURCH (1 PETER 5:5). Having spoken to the under-shepherds Peter now speaks to the sheep. In the light of the coming onslaught on the flock they are to walk in readin...
THE GRAND FINALE (1 PETER 5:1). As Peter comes to the close of his letter the thought of suffering followed by glory continues: · In 1 Peter 3:18 He had spoken of the sufferings of Christ which had...
1 Peter 5:8. BE SOBER; see on chap. 1 Peter 1:13, where _sobriety_ is noticed as a condition to the highest type of Christian hope. In chap. 1 Peter 4:7 it appears as a preparation for prayer. In this...
The grace of humility closed the foregoing series of counsels. It appeared there as the safeguard against a lordly spirit on the side of those in office in the Church, and a spirit of insubordination...
BE WATCHFUL (γρηγορησατε). First aorist active imperative of γρηγορεω, late present imperative from perfect εγρηγορα (to be awake) from εγειρω (to arouse), as in Matthew 24:42. For νηψατε see 1 Pete...
1 Peter 5:8 Companionship in Temptation. I. St. Peter evidently thought that the conviction of companionship in temptation was meant by God to be a source of strength. We are hourly and daily assaile...
1 Peter 5:1. _The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:_ Here again, as in the...
CONTENTS: Christian service in view of Christ's soon coming. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Peter, Satan, Silvanus, Marcus. CONCLUSION: Humility is a great preserver of peace and order in the church, givin...
1 Peter 5:1. _Who am also an elder._ See the note on Acts 20:28, and on Philippians 1:1. Let the bishops, says Jerome, know that they are greater than other presbyters, rather by custom than by virtue...
BE ALERT! "Even though you throw all your worries on Him, yet do not neglect lawful opportunities to escape trouble!" Compare Acts 22:25 and note. LIKE A ROARING LION. A lion hunts quietly, so we see...
_Be sober, be vigilant._ THE ADVANTAGES OF MODERATION IN THE ENJOYMENT OF SENSUAL PLEASURE Christianity in its precepts and commands, as well as in its doctrines, is precisely suited to our nature a...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 5:8 Satan PROWLS AROUND... SEEKING SOMEONE TO DEVOUR. He hopes that believers will be terrified by hardship and persecutions, or that they will be deceived and fall into sin....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 5:8. THE DEVIL.—Thought of under the figure of a wild beast that, at any moment, may put the flock in peril. Those who fall into sin are often surprised at the...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 5:1 THE ELDERS WHICH ARE AMONG YOU I EXHORT. The Vatican and Alexandrine Manuscripts omit the article, and insert "therefore" (the Sinaitic gives both), reading, "Elders, therefo...
Now the elders [the overseers] which are among you I exhort, because I am also an elder [or an overseer, an older man], and I am a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and I'm also a partaker of the g...
1 John 3:8; 1 Peter 1:13; 1 Peter 4:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:6; 1
Be sober [ν η ψ α τ ε]. See on ch. 1 Peter 4:7. Be vigilant [γ ρ η γ ο ρ η σ α τ ε]. Rev., be watchful. See on Mark 13:35; and 1 Thessalonians 5:6, where both verbs occur : watch and be sober. A remin...
But in the mean time watch. There is a close connexion between this, and the duly casting our care upon him. How deeply had St. Peter himself suffered for want of watching! Be vigilant — As if he had...
Observe here, 1. double duty exhorted to, sobriety and vigilancy: BE SOBER, BE VIGILANT, be sober and temperate in all things: sober in your enjoyments; sober in your employments; sober in your recrea...