Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Peter 3:6
Whose children ye are — In a spiritual as well as natural sense, and entitled to the same inheritance, while ye discharge your conjugal duties, not out of fear, but for conscience' sake. Genesis 18:12.
Whose children ye are — In a spiritual as well as natural sense, and entitled to the same inheritance, while ye discharge your conjugal duties, not out of fear, but for conscience' sake. Genesis 18:12.
Verse 6. _EVEN AS SARA OBEYED_] Almost the same words are in _Rab. Tanchum_, fol. 9, 3: "The wife of Abraham reverenced him, and called him lord, as it is written, Genesis 18:12: _And my lord is old_....
EVEN AS SARA OBEYED ABRAHAM - Sarah was one of the most distinguished of the wives of the patriarchs, and her case is referred to as furnishing one of the best illustrations of the duty to which the a...
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 counsel to wives and husbands is full of a fine courtesy, and true chivalry, and shows how the new leaven is at work in the thought of the Church. It is not only a contrast to paganism, but has t...
Let not your adornment be an outward thing of braided hair and ornaments of gold and wearing of robes, but let it be an adornment of the inward personality of the heart, wrought by the unfading loveli...
THE SILENT PREACHING OF A LOVELY LIFE (1 Peter 3:1-2)...
EVEN. Omit. LORD. Greek. _kurios._ Compare App-98. DAUGHTERS. children. App-108. ARE. are become. DO WELL. See 1 Peter 2:15. ANY. no. Greek. _medeis._. double negative here. AMAZEMENT. terror. Gr...
_even as Sara obeyed Abraham_ The tense which St Peter uses would seem to imply a reference to some special instance of obedience, but, as the history of Genesis supplies no such instance in act, we a...
ΚΎΡΙΟΝ ΚΑΛΟΥ͂ΣΑ. The only passage where Sarah is actually described as calling Abraham her “lord” is in Genesis 18:12, but St Peter is referring to her habitual attitude towards Abraham. ἯΣ ἘΓΕΝΉΘΗΤΕ...
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...
ΣΆΡΡΑ (G4564) Сара. Сара — пример женщины, украшавшей себя кротостью и повиновением мужу (Balch, 103). ΎΠΉΚΟΥΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΥΠΑΚΟΎΩ (G5219) слушаться, повиноваться, ΚΑΛΟΎΣΑ _praes. act. par...
AND ARE NOT AFRAID WITH ANY AMAZEMENT.— That is, according to some, "Are not by any means discouraged from so doing." Dr. Heylin renders it, _And do not despond in any terror._ I here understand, says...
_3. TOWARD HUSBANDS 3:1_-6 1 Peter 3:1-2 In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of t...
Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement. SARA - an example of faith. CALLING HIM LORD - (Genesis 18:12...
VERSE 6. EVEN SARAH OBEYED ABRAHAM. Sarah went so far in her submission to her husband as to apply to him the designation of "Lord." The Christian wives among the addressed, who were of Jewish birth,...
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....
3:6 doing (q-13) That is, assuming they do....
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...
LORD] RV 'lord': cp. Genesis 18:12. YE ARE] RV 'ye now are'; RM 'ye are become.' They became Abraham's daughters when they became Christians, but, if they are to continue such, perseverance is require...
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...
What Peter wrote in verses 1-4 is not new. It is true for all women in every country at all times. Abraham and Sarah lived nearly 2000 years before Peter wrote this letter. You can read about them in...
EVEN AS SARA. — A definite example of the general fact just alleged. St. Peter seems rather to have argued from what every one would feel _must_ have been the case than from explicit records. Sara’s u...
CHAPTER 9 CHRISTIAN WIVES AND HUSBANDS 1 Peter 3:1 THE Apostle gave at first 1 Peter 2:13 the rule of Christian submission generally; then proceeded to apply it to the cases of citizens and of serva...
Duty of wives (Ephesians 5:21-24; Colossians 3:18; Titus 2:4) Submissiveness and true adornment. τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν, _your own husbands_, the motive for submissiveness,...
ὡς … καλοῦσα. The only evidence that can be adduced from the O.T. narrative is _Sarah laughed within herself and said … “but my lord is old_ ” (Genesis 18:12). The phrase, if pressed, implies a nomina...
CHRISTIAN FAMILY-LIFE 1 Peter 3:1 In the previous chapter the Apostle had been urging the poor slaves of wealthy householders to submit quietly to wrongs, leaving God to vindicate. Here he turns to t...
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...
SUBMISSION APPLIED TO WIVES Peter continues, in 1 Peter 3:1, to give instructions on submission, as the word "likewise" would indicate. In 2:13 he dealt with government and in 2:18 with masters. God k...
Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are (5) not afraid with any amazement. (5) Because women are by nature fearful, he gives them to unde...
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; (2) While they behold your chaste con...
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...
6_And are not afraid _The weakness of the sex causes women to be suspicious and timid, and therefore morose; for they fear lest by their subjection, they should be more reproachfully treated. It was t...
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...
EVEN AS SARAH OBEYED ABRAHAM,.... Going along with him wherever he went, as from Chaldea to Canaan, and into Egypt, and the land of the Philistines, saying the words he put into her mouth, Genesis 12:...
Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement. Ver. 6. _Calling him lord_] See here, how in a great heap of sin,...
_For after this manner_ Namely, with inward holiness and outward plainness; _in old time_ In the patriarchal ages; _the holy women who trusted in God_ And therefore did not act thus from servile fear,...
CALLING HIM LORD; thus acknowledging her subjection to him as her rightful head. Genesis 18:12; 1 CORINTHIANS 11:3. AMAZEMENT; such apprehension of danger as would prevent them from doing their duty....
EVEN AS SARAH OBEYED ABRAHAM, CALLING HIM LORD; WHOSE DAUGHTERS YE ARE, AS LONG AS YE DO WELL, AND ARE NOT AFRAID WITH ANY AMAZEMENT....
EXHORTATIONS TO THE MARRIED....
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...
DAUGHTERS: _ Gr._ children...
_ 1 Peter 3:6 ‘Thus Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear.'_ ‘SARAH OBEYED ABRAHAM' -‘Peter does not se...
1-7 The wife must discharge her duty to her own husband, though he obey not the word. We daily see how narrowly evil men watch the ways and lives of professors of religion. Putting on of apparel is n...
EVEN AS SARA; after ger name was changed from Sarai, my lady, to Sarah, simply a lady or princess, because kings were to come of her, GENESIS 17:15,16: yet even then she _obeyed Abraham; _ and this is...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians Let the wives honour their husbands, as their own flesh; and let them not presume to address them by their names.[36] Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V...
1 Peter 3:6 as G5613 Sarah G4564 obeyed G5219 (G5656) Abraham G11 calling G2564 (G5723) him G846 lord...
‘For in a similar way in the past the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you no...
WIVES ARE TO SUBMIT IN OBEDIENCE TO THEIR HUSBANDS WHO ARE TO RESPOND WITH COMPASSION AND CARE BECAUSE THEY ARE JOINT-HEIRS OF THE GRACE OF LIFE (1 PETER 3:1). Peter's view of the new people of God (h...
When Paul defines the duties of bond-servants, he balances his statement by a corresponding exposition of the duties of masters (Ephesians 6:9; Colossians 4:1). Peter, dealing here specially with the...
1 Peter 3:6. AS SARAH OBEYED ABRAHAM. Why is Sarah introduced in this connection? Possibly as the _standard_ by which the holy women of old measured their wifely submission. Taking ‘as' in the sense o...
AS SARAH (ως Σαρρα).OBEYED ABRAHAM (υπηκουεν τω Αβρααμ). Imperfect active of υπακουω, "used to obey" (with dative).CALLING HIM LORD (κυριον αυτον καλουσα). Present active participle of καλεω. S...
1 Peter 3:1. _Likewise, ye wives be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; while they behold your c...
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...
SARAH WAS LIKE THAT. "There is no disgrace or shame in submitting to your husband! Jewish women think of Sarah as _the example_ of a good wife. See how she did! Even if you are married to an unbelieve...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 3:6 SARAH OBEYED ABRAHAM. Peter describes Sarah’s submission in terms of obedience. This does not mean the relationship between husbands and wives is like that of parents and c...
THE CHRISTIAN SPIRIT IN SOCIAL RELATIONS _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE main contention of St. Peter is that the Christian life and obligations are not intended to be, and never should be, made...
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 Peter 3:14; 1 Peter 3:15; Acts 4:19; Acts 4:8; Daniel 3:16;...
Amazement [π τ ο η σ ι ν]. Rev., terror. Compare the kindred verb ptohqhte, be terrified, Luke 21:9; Luke 24:37; on which, see note. The word means a scare, or nervous excitement....