For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Ver. 25. As sheep] Than the which no creature is more apt to stray, less apt and able to return. The ox knoweth his owner, &c.
1 PETER 2:25 planw,menoi {B} The external evidence for each reading is fairly evenly balanced (&menoi, a A B 1505 2464 _al_; &mena( î72 C Y and most minuscules), but in transcription the tende...
Verse 1 Peter 2:25. _FOR YE WERE AS SHEEP GOING ASTRAY_] Formerly ye were not in a better moral condition than your oppressors; ye were like _stray sheep_, in the wilderness of ignorance and sin, till...
FOR YE WERE AS SHEEP GOING ASTRAY - Here also is an allusion to Isaiah 53:6, “All we like sheep have gone astray.” See the notes at that verse. The figure is plain. We were like a flock without a shep...
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...
FOR, &C. This clause and that which precedes are quoted from Isaiah 53:5; Isaiah 53:6. BISHOP. See Philippians 1:1; Philippians 1:1
_For ye were as sheep going astray_ The sequence of thought is suggested by the "all we like sheep have gone astray" of Isaiah 53:6, but the imagery could scarcely fail to recall to the mind of the Ap...
ἮΤΕ ΓᾺΡ ὩΣ ΠΡΌΒΑΤΑ ΠΛΑΝΏΜΕΝΟΙ (T.R. πλανώμενα). St Peter means, You Gentiles may well apply to yourselves the language of Isaiah 53 about those healed by the suffering Servant of the Lord, for you wer...
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...
ΉΤΕ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть, ΠΡΌΒΑΤΟΝ (G4263) овца, возможно, отголосок Isaiah 53:6. ΠΛΑΝΏΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. pass. (dep.) part. от_ ΠΛΑΝΆΩ (G4105) бродить, теряться, сбиваться с пути. Part,...
DISCOURSE: 2399 THE NATURE OF TRUE CONVERSION STATED 1 Peter 2:25. _Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls_. NOTHING so reconciles the Christia...
BISHOP OF YOUR SOULS.— The word 'Επισκοπος, here translated _bishop,_ signifies "an overseer or inspector of any person or business;" and it is added to the word _shepherd,_ to strengthen the expressi...
_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...
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. FOR - why they need healing (1 Peter 2:24). NOW - that the atonement for all has been made, th...
VERSE 25. FOR YE WERE AS SHEEP GOING ASTRAY. That is, formerly led astray by the evil, but now are, as it were, found, and have returned from wandering by coming to Christ. THE SHEPHERD AND BISHOP....
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....
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...
These verses use words from Isaiah 53:5-6, where they are a *prophecy about Jesus Christ. Verse 24 is a simple way to explain *salvation. *Sin is everything that people have done wrong against God or...
FOR YE WERE AS SHEEP GOING ASTRAY. — The right reading does not attach “going astray” to “sheep,” but as predicate of the sentence, “ye were going astray like sheep.” The “for” introduces an explanati...
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...
= Isaiah 53:6, πάντες ὡς πρόβατα ἐπλανήθημεν combined with Ezekiel 34:6, where this conception of the people and their teachers (_the shepherds of Israel_) is elaborated and the latter denounced becau...
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 PURPOSE OF CHRIST'S DEATH Peter had gone through a time when he did not understand the purpose of Christ's death (Matthew 16:21-23). In 1 Peter 2:24, he explains the full meaning of that great eve...
REFLECTIONS Blessed Lord God the Holy Ghost! since by regeneration thou bringest the children into their adoption character in Christ Jesus, give me the daily influences of thy grace, that I may live...
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 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...
_SHEPHERD AND SHEEP_ ‘Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.’ 1 Peter 2:25 Who would expect such allusions in an address to servants, urging...
25_For ye were as sheep _This also has Peter borrowed from Isaiah, except that the Prophet makes it a universal statement, “All we like sheep have gone astray.” (Isaiah 53:6.) But on the word _sheep...
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...
FOR YE WERE AS SHEEP GOING ASTRAY,.... This is a proof of their being healed, namely, their conversion; in which an application of the blood of Christ, and pardon, and so healing by it, was made to th...
_Who his own self_ In his own person, and by the sacrifice of himself, and not of another, (Hebrews 9:28,) _bare our sins_ That is, the punishment due to them; _in his_ afflicted, torn, dying _body on...
THE SHEPHERD AND BISHOP; Jesus Christ, the overseer and watchman of our souls. Isaiah 40:11....
FOR YE WERE AS SHEEP GOING ASTRAY, BUT ARE NOW RETURNED UNTO THE SHEPHERD AND BISHOP OF YOUR SOULS. The first reason for suffering wrong readily is the good pleasure of God, the second is that of the...
The inspiring example of Christ:...
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 2:25 ‘For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.'_ ‘FOR' -Again, reminding us why Jesus endured such suffering. He p...
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...
FOR YE WERE, while ye continued in your Judaism, and had not yet received the gospel, _as sheep going astray, _ from Christ the great Shepherd, and the church of believers his flock, and the way of ri...
1 Peter 2:25 For G1063 were G2258 (G5713) like G5613 sheep G4263 astray G4105 (G5746) but G235 have...
‘For you were going astray like sheep, but are now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.' Reference to Isaiah 53 continues in the words ‘you were going astray like sheep', for which com...
1 Peter 2:25. FOR YE WERE GOING ASTRAY AS SHEEP. Continuing Isaiah's strain, Peter adds a reason for what he has just said of a restoration to righteousness, or soundness of life. The figure passes fr...
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...
FOR YE WERE GOING ASTRAY LIKE SHEEP (ητε γαρ ως προβατα πλανωμενο). Brought from Isaiah 53:6, but changed to periphrastic imperfect indicative with ητε and present middle participle of πλαναω, to w...
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...
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...
YOU WERE LIKE SHEEP. "Sin had made you lose your way, just like sheep do, and you were in danger of being lost completely, or killed by wild animals!" BUT NOW. "God acted in Christ to set you free! By...
_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 5:4; Acts 20:28; Ezekiel 34:11; Ezekiel 34:23; Ezekiel 34:24
For ye were as sheep going astray [η τ ε γ α ρ ω ς π ρ ο β α τ α π λ α ν ω μ ε ν ο ι]; i e., as commonly understood, ye were like straying sheep. But the ye were should be construed with the participl...
The bishop — The kind observer, inspector, or overseer of your souls....
Observe here, 1. The state and condition in which both Jews and Gentiles were found before their conversion to Christianity; they were like sheep going astray and lost; wandering in the ways of sin an...