Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Peter 1:9
Receiving — Now already. Salvation — From all sin into all holiness, which is the qualification for, the forerunner and pledge of, eternal salvation.
Receiving — Now already. Salvation — From all sin into all holiness, which is the qualification for, the forerunner and pledge of, eternal salvation.
1 PETER 1:9 @u`mw/n# {C} Because in later Greek the vowels h and u came to be pronounced alike, scribes would sometimes write u`mw/n when they meant to write h`mw/n, and vice versa. Since the context...
Verse 9. _RECEIVING THE END OF YOUR FAITH_] Ye are put in possession of the salvation of your souls, which was the thing presented to your faith, when ye were called by the Gospel of Christ. Your fait...
RECEIVING THE END OF YOUR FAITH, EVEN THE SALVATION OF YOUR SOULS - The result or object of your faith; that is, what your faith is designed and adapted to secure. Compare the notes at Romans 10:4. Th...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE SUFFERING OF BELIEVERS AND EXHORTATIONS TO HOLY LIVING CHAPTER 1:1-21 _ 1. The introduction and doxology (1 Peter 1:1)_ 2. Suffering and the coming glory (1 Peter...
The section contains a deep and rich thanksgiving to God for the certainty of an eternal fellowship with Christ. This no sufferings can mar, nor death itself break. He is the unseen Friend, and since...
SOULS. App-110....
_receiving the end of your faith_ The question has been raised whether these words refer to the present or the future. It has been urged on the one hand that the word for "receiving" applied in 2 Cori...
ΚΟΜΙΖΌΜΕΝΟΙ. The middle voice denotes either receiving back a possession, Matthew 25:27, or receiving a promised gift, Hebrews 10:36; Hebrews 11:39, and probably...
1 Peter 1:3-13. THE HIGH PRIVILEGES AND DESTINY OF THE CHRISTIAN _Benediction_ 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for by raising Him from the dead He has begotten us, His othe...
ΚΟΜΙΖΌΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med. part. от_ КОΜΊΖΩ (G2865) _med._ получать, приобретать, ΤΈΛΟΣ (G5056) цель, ΨΥΧΏΝ _gen. pl. от_ ΨΥΧΉ (G5590) душа. Объектн. _gen._, "спасение ваших душ". Душа здесь не часть...
DISCOURSE: 2382 THE CHRISTIAN’S HAPPINESS 1 Peter 1:8. _Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving...
RECEIVING THE END OF YOUR FAITH, &C.— _Because you shall attain the salvation of your souls, as the recompence of your faith._ The word Κομιζομαι signifies, "To receive as a recompence." See Parkhurst...
2. WORTHY OF _TRIALS AND AN AFFLICTION 1:6-9_ 1 Peter 1:6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials. _Expanded Translation_...
Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. RECEIVING (IN SURE ANTICIPATION) THE END OF YOUR FAITH - i:e., its crowning consummation, finally-completed "salvation" (Peter con...
VERSE 9 RECEIVING THE END OF YOUR FAITH. The result you so greatly desire, the recompense or reward for your fidelity; that inheritance heretofore mentioned. That is, the end of your faith, even the...
1 Note the contrast between Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus. Peter proceeds on the ground of His present rejection on earth, Paul on His exaltation in heaven. 1...
1:9 souls. (f-11) Lit. 'salvation of souls,' in contrast with temporal deliverances, to which, as Jews, they were accustomed to look....
GREETING IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY TRINITY. ENCOURAGEMENT TO HOPE IN FAITH AND OBEDIENCE 1, 2. To the strangers scattered throughout.. elect] RV 'to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in,' e...
A CHOSEN GENERATION] RV 'an elect race': cp. Isaiah 43:20. A PECULIAR PEOPLE] RV 'a people for God's own possession': cp. Exodus 19:5. PRAISES] RV 'excellencies'; AVmg. 'virtues': cp. Philippians 4:8;...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ INTRODUCTION THE WRITER Peter wrote this letter. He was one of the 12 *apostles. His name was Simon, but Jesus changed it to Peter (John 1:42). ‘Pe...
We understand *salvation in three ways: in the past, in the present, and in the future. • *Salvation in the past, when people first become Christians (verse 3). • *Salvation in the present, as they...
(3-12) PANEGYRIC OF THE GOSPEL FROM A HEBREW POINT OF VIEW. — The Apostle thanks God for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That fact is a regeneration of us, and a pledge of future glory, in view of w...
RECEIVING THE END OF YOUR FAITH. — The “_end_ of our faith” means, the _object_ to which our faith is directed, the thing we believed _for._ And “faith” catches up the “believing” of last verse, so th...
CHAPTER 2 THE HEAVENLY INHERITANCE 1 Peter 1:3 "OUT of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh," words true of all this letter, but of no part more true than of the thanksgiving with which it...
The connexion with mention of persecution suggests that the writer is here thinking of the saying, _in your patience ye shall win your souls_ and perhaps also of the contrast between the persecuton wh...
_Benediction of the Name_. The mention of God is followed by the Benediction of the Name as Jewish piety prescribed; the formula _the Holy One, blessed be He_, being amplified by the Christian appreci...
Exult then. These various temptations to which you are exposed cause present grief. But they are part of God's plan for you. Even material perishable gold is tried in the fire. So is your faith tested...
OUR IMPERISHABLE INHERITANCE 1 Peter 1:1 _ Scattered strangers_! The designation is true of us all. Note the reference to the Trinity involved in the opening sentence. Our inheritance is prepared and...
Like the letter of James, the purpose of this was to establish those who were passing through a period of suffering and testing. In his introduction the apostle used the name Jesus had given him, "Pet...
THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF REJOICING After "Doubting" Thomas had seen the resurrected Jesus and proclaimed him as Lord, Jesus said, "Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those...
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: (9) Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your sou...
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...
9_Receiving the end of your faith _He reminds the faithful where they ought to direct all their thoughts, even to eternal salvation. For this world holds all our affections ensnared by is allurements;...
The First Epistle of Peter is addressed to believers among the dispersed of Israel found in those provinces of Asia Minor Which are named in the first Verse; the Second Epistle declares itself to be a...
RECEIVING THE END OF YOUR FAITH, EVEN THE SALVATION OF YOUR SOULS. Which is a just and sufficient ground of joy and rejoicing. "Salvation" intends spiritual and eternal salvation; that which God appoi...
Receiving the end of your faith, _even_ the salvation of _your_ souls. Ver. 9. _The end of your faith_] The period and perfection, the reward and meed of it, in all fulness. See Psalms 19:12; Proverb...
_Whom having not seen_ Ειδοτες, _known_, that is, personally in the flesh; _ye love_ Namely, on account of his amiable character, and for the great things he hath done and suffered for you, and the gr...
RECEIVING-THE SALVATION OF YOUR SOULS; eternal life begins in the soul with the beginning of faith in Christ, which has this for its end; though the full possession of it is reserved for the life to c...
RECEIVING THE END OF YOUR FAITH, EVEN THE SALVATION OF YOUR SOULS. The apostle knew that the Christians to whom he was writing needed encouragement. But there is no better way of cheering up faint-hea...
A PRAISE OF GOD FOR HIS MANIFOLD BLESSINGS. The wonderful gifts of God's grace:...
Peter writes with apostolic authority and though it is directly to the dispersed Jewish Christians (strangers both because Jews among Gentiles, and because Christians separated from Jewish relatives),...
_ 1 Peter 1:9 ‘Obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls'_ _“OBTAINING”_ -Which infers that salvation is conditional. The word “obtaining” is often used to denote the rewards...
1-9 This epistle is addressed to believers in general, who are strangers in every city or country where they live, and are scattered through the nations. These are to ascribe their salvation to the e...
RECEIVING; either this word is to be taken improperly, and by an enallage, the future being put for the present tense; q.d. Being about to receive; or rather properly, in the present tense, and then i...
Origen de Principiis Book II But perhaps this question is asked, If it be the understanding which prays and sings with the spirit, and if it be the same which receives both perfection and salvation,...
1 Peter 1:9 receiving G2865 (G5734) end G5056 your G5216 salvation G4991 souls G5590 Salvation - 3's H30163...
‘Whom not having seen you love; on whom, though now you see him not, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of y...
THE GREAT PRIVILEGE AND BLESSING THAT IS THEIRS AS GOD'S ELECT WHICH EVEN ANGELS DESIRE TO LOOK INTO (1 PETER 1:3). The result of God's foreknowing of us, and of the sanctifying work of the Spirit is...
THIS WORK WILL GO ON AMIDST OUR PRESENT TRIALS AND WE MUST THEREFORE KEEP OUR EYES ON HIM (1 PETER 1:6). But while salvation may in the end be guaranteed for all who are truly His, there is no promise...
Only now does Peter introduce the sufferings of his readers. Before naming these, he has made the bright realities of their privilege pass in rapid vision before their troubled eye. He has led them to...
RECEIVING (κομιζομενο). Present middle participle of κομιζω, old verb, to receive back, to get what is promised (1 Peter 5:4; Hebrews 10:36).THE END OF YOUR FAITH (το τελος της πιστεως). The concl...
SALVATION (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
1 Peter 1:8 Salvation: its Subjective Elements. I. Faith. (1) Faith is the first Christian grace; (2) faith is a personal trust in a personal Saviour; (3) faith is trust in an invisible Saviour. II....
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,_ It must have been very pleasant to his heart to write those words, not «Peter, who denied his Master,» not Peter, «full of imperfections and infirmit...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ._ These are his credentials from him who is Prince of the kings of the earth. _To the strangers scattered_ abroad, of whose tragic dispersion we have spo...
BECAUSE YOU ARE RECEIVING. "Eternal life begins NOW, for those who love God!" Compare John 10:10; 1 Corinthians 2:9. The Christian has past sins forgiven, and is God's child (Romans 8:15). In this way...
_Wherein ye greatly rejoice._ JOY AND TRIAL IN THE CHRISTIAN’S LIFE I. The Christian’s joy. 1. It is present joy. God’s service is gladsome even now (1 Peter 1:8; Philippians 4:4). Nor is this joy f...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:3 Called to Salvation as Exiles. Believers must praise God for his promised salvation and live out that salvation daily. ⇐
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 1:3. BLESSED BE.—A characteristic Jewish recognition of God’s mercy. Compare with 2 Corinthians 1:3; Ephesians 1:3. ABUNDANT.—πολὺ, much. BEGOTTEN US.—The choic...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 1:1 PETER. It is the Greek form of the name, which the Lord Jesus himself had given to the great apostle; first, by anticipation, in the spirit of prophecy (John 1:42); and again...
Tonight let's turn to First Peter chapter one. Of the many disciples that were following Jesus, He chose twelve to be apostles. One of the twelve that was chosen as an apostle was Simon Peter. Simon P...
Hebrews 11:13; James 1:21; Romans 6:22...
JOY UNSPEAKABLE AND FULL OF GLORY 1 Peter 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As Peter opens his First Epistle he speaks of the strangers scattered throughout certain countries, then he goes on to tell us some...
Observe, 1. The END, that is, the reward, of. Christian's faith; it is THE SALVATION OF HIS SOUL; of his soul eminently, but not exclusively, of body and soul both. The complete salvation of soul and...