NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
1 Peter 1:15
Tertullian On Monogamy
For elsewhere, again, (we read): "Be ye holy, just as He withal was holy "[17]
Tertullian On Monogamy
For elsewhere, again, (we read): "Be ye holy, just as He withal was holy "[17]
Verse 15. _BUT AS HE WHICH HATH CALLED YOU_] Heathenism scarcely produced a god whose example was not the most abominable; their greatest gods, especially, were paragons of impurity; none of their ph...
BUT AS HE WHICH HATH CALLED YOU IS HOLY - On the word called, see the notes at Ephesians 4:1. The meaning here is, that the model or example in accordance with which they were to frame their lives, sh...
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...
Here the practical aim of the epistle becomes at the earliest possible moment clearly manifest. The writer finds in the central reality of the Christian faith the example, sacrifice, and resurrection...
AS, &C. Literally according to (App-104.) the (One) having called you (is) holy. SO, &C. = become ye yourselves also. ALL MANNER OF. all. CONVERSATION. behaviour. Greek. _anastrophe._ See Galatians...
_be ye holy in all manner of conversation_ Better, IN EVERY FORM OF CONDUCT. The word "conversation," once used in its true meaning (_conversari_= living, moving to and fro, with others), has during t...
ΚΑΤᾺ ΤῸΝ ΚΑΛΈΣΑΝΤΑ ὙΜΑ͂Σ ἍΓΙΟΝ (cf. Ephesians 1:4; Ephesians 4:1; Ephesians 5:1, etc.). _After the model of Him that called you, Who is holy_. Here we have the true model (εἰκών) to which men’s lives...
INTRODUCTORY EXHORTATION FOUNDED UPON THE BENEDICTION 1 Peter 1:13 to 1 Peter 2:10 13–25. 13 The new life of hope, faith and privilege to which you have been begotten involves corresponding responsi...
ΚΑΤΆ (G2596) в соответствии чем-л., с _асс._ ΚΑΛΈΣΑΝΤΑ _aor. act. part. от_ ΚΑΛΈΩ (G2564) звать, ΆΓΙΟΣ (G40) отдельный, отмеченный, святой. Это слово обозначает проявление характера Бога, совершенные...
DISCOURSE: 2386 NECESSITY OF HOLINESS 1 Peter 1:15. _As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy_. IT is thought...
AS HE WHICH HATH CALLED YOU, &C.— The gods which the Heathens worshipped had a very bad moral character, and the imitation of them rendered their worshippers worse than they would otherwise have been....
_2. GODLINESS 1:15, 16_ 1 Peter 1:15-16 but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living; because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy. _Expanded T...
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; [ Kata (G2596) ton (G3588) kalesanta (G2564)] 'But (rather) after the pattern of Him who hath called you (whose...
VERSE 15 BUT AS HE WHICH HATH CALLED YOU IS HOLY. God called you. God is holy. Now, as you are called of God, and are his children, God is your Father. Every obedient child seeks to please, and, as f...
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...
1:15 conversation; (i-17) i.e. 'manner of life,' and so ver. 18....
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...
CONVERSATION] RV 'manner of life': cp. 1 Peter 1:18; 1 Peter 2:12; 1 Peter 3:1.; 1 Peter 3:16....
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...
Children often look like their parents and behave like them. Christians are now children of God, because God is their Father in heaven. God is holy. God wants his children to be like him. They must ha...
(13-25) GENERAL APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING. — This salvation being so magnificent, the Asiatic Hebrews must cling to it tenaciously, in holiness, in reverence caused by consideration of the cost of...
BUT AS HE WHICH HATH CALLED YOU IS HOLY. — More correctly, _But according to_ (or, _after, i.e.,_ in the likeness of: see Ephesians 4:24, “after God”) _the Holy One who called you._ The “calling” is m...
CHAPTER 4 THE CHRISTIAN'S IDEAL, AND THE STEPS THEREUNTO 1 Peter 1:13 THE Apostle, who has set forth the character of the Christian's election, who has given to the converts large assurance for the...
f. The command _Ye shall be holy for I am holy_ is connected originally with the deliverance from Egypt and the distinction between clean and unclean, which lays down the principle of separation invol...
_Practical admonitions_. In this section St. Peter is engrossed with the conception of the Church as the new Israel which has been delivered from idolatry the spiritual Egypt by a _far more excellent...
REDEEMED AND PURIFIED 1 Peter 1:13 The appeal for a holy life is enforced by considering the great cost of our redemption and the great hope which is opened before us. Ours must be the girded loins,...
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...
STRIVING TO BE HOLY, LIKE GOD Christians should try instead to conform to God, who is holy (Hebrews 12:14). The idea is set apart from sinfulness for God's service. This is very similar to the Lord's...
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the Re 1-22, and live upon that inheritance which is Christ himself, now by fait...
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...
15_He who hath called you is holy _He reasons from the end for which we are called. God sets us apart as a peculiar people for himself; then we ought to be free from all pollutions. And he quotes a se...
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...
BUT AS HE WHICH HATH CALLED YOU IS HOLY,.... Which is a periphrasis of God the Father, who had called them, not merely in an external way, by the outward ministry of the word; but internally, powerful...
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Ver. 15. _In all manner of conversation_] Our very civilities must savour of sanctity, and our common conversatio...
_Wherefore_ Since your lot is fallen into these glorious times, wherein you enjoy such high privileges above what the people of God formerly enjoyed; since the blessings which are set before you are s...
HE; God....
BUT AS HE WHICH HATH CALLED YOU IS HOLY, SO BE YE HOLY IN ALL MANNER OF CONVERSATION;...
AN ADMONITION TO LEAD A GODLY LIFE. The need of holiness:...
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 1:15 ‘but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior'_ _‘BUT LIKE THE HOLY ONE WHO CALLED YOU'_ -A Holy God deserves our conformity and obedience, not the...
13-16 As the traveller, the racer, the warrior, and the labourer, gathered in their long and loose garments, that they might be ready in their business, so let Christians do by their minds and affect...
BUT AS HE WHICH HATH CALLED YOU; God the Father, to whom, as the First Cause, our calling is frequently ascribed, ROMANS 9:11,24 1 CORINTHIANS 7:15 GALATIANS 1:6,15. It may be rendered: According to
1 Peter 1:15 but G235 as G2596 called G2564 (G5660) you G5209 holy G40 you G846 also G2532 be...
IN THE LIGHT OF THEIR GREAT PRIVILEGE AND BLESSING THEY SHOULD SET THEMSELVES TO LIVE ACCORDINGLY (1 PETER 1:13). In the light of the wonder of the message that has come to them, and of the sanctifyin...
The rapid outline of the magnificence of the salvation prepares the way for what is to be urged in the form of duty. The Preface, which has so much of the Pauline style both in idea and in conciliator...
1 Peter 1:15. BUT ACCORDING TO THE HOLY ONE WHO CALLED YOU, PROVE YE YOURSELVES ALSO HOLY. Instead of letting their life revert to the type of those renounced impurities, they must show it conformed t...
BUT LIKE AS HE WHICH CALLED YOU IS HOLY (αλλα κατα τον καλεσαντα υμας αγιον). This use of κατα is a regular Greek idiom (here in contrast with συνσχηματιζομενο). "But according to the holy one call...
1 Peter 1:13. _Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;_ This is Peter's practical appli...
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._ 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...
INSTEAD, BE HOLY. "Supersede evil desires with holy living! God your Father is holy, and you must be like him!...
_Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind._ TIGHTEN THE BELT “Wherefore,” for this reason, that your salvation was so great an object of interest to prophets and to angels, it becomes you to maintai...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:13 The inheritance promised to followers of Christ should motivate them to set their hope entirely on their future reward (vv. 1 Peter 1:13) and to live in fear of the God wh
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:14 Christians are to BE HOLY (see Leviticus 18:2), because God IS HOLY and has...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 1:13. BE SOBER.—The word suggests a sobriety of the Nazarite type. TO THE END.—Margin, perfectly; hope with a hope that lacks nothing of completeness. 1 Peter...
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...
1 Peter 2:12; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 Peter 3:16; 1 Peter 5:10; 1 Thessa
As he which hath called you is holy [κ α τ α τ ο ν κ α λ ε σ α ν τ α υ μ α ς α γ ι ο ν]. As of the A. V. is according to, or after the pattern of; and holy is to be taken as a personal name; the which...
STRENGTHENING THE BRETHREN 1 Peter 1:10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction we wish to emphasize the concluding message of our last sermon. 1 Peter 1:7 tells us of the trial of faith. It is de...
THE BOOK OF BOOKS 1 Peter 1:10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is said on one occasion, when Sir Walter Scott was sick, he called his son requesting him to bring him THE book. His son said, "Your library is...