NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
1 Peter 2:20
Tertullian Scorpiace
even hereunto were ye called, since Christ also suffered for us, leaving you Himself as an example, that ye should follow His own steps."[79]
Tertullian Scorpiace
even hereunto were ye called, since Christ also suffered for us, leaving you Himself as an example, that ye should follow His own steps."[79]
Verse 20. _FOR WHAT GLORY IS IT_] It appears from this that the poor Christians, and especially those who had been converted to Christianity while in a state of slavery, were often grievously abused,...
FOR WHAT GLORY IS IT - What honor or credit would it be. IF, WHEN YE BE BUFFETED FOR YOUR FAULTS - That is, if you are punished when you deserve it. The word “buffet” (κολαφίζω kolaphizō) - means, t...
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...
GLORY. Greek. _kleos._ Only here. WHEN, &C. = sinning (App-128.) and being buffeted (see 1 Corinthians 4:11). ACCEPTABLE. App-184....
_if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently_ Literally, IF WHEN YE ARE BUFFETED, BEING IN FAULT, YE SHALL ENDURE IT. The common practice of Roman life, as of all countries in...
ΚΛΈΟΣ occurs nowhere else in the N.T. and only once in the LXX., Job 28:22, where it means “fame.” Here it means that there is no credit, nothing which men count heroic in patient submission to punish...
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...
ΠΟΊΟΣ (G4169) какой, какого рода, ΚΛΈΟΣ (G2811) репутация, престиж, слава, доверие (Kelly; Selwyn). ΆΜΑΡΤΆΝΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΆΜΑΡΤΆΝΩ (G264) грешить, ошибаться (Bigg), ΚΟΛΑΦΙΖΌΜΕ...
DISCOURSE: 2397 HOW TO BEAR INJURIES 1 Peter 2:19. This is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your fa...
FOR WHAT GLORY IS IT, &C.— It may be said, "Is it no glory for a man who has done a fault to take his punishment patiently?—Would not resistance or clamour, nay, even murmuring or impatience, in such...
_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 what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. WHAT, [ Po...
VERSE 20. FOR WHAT GLORY IS IT? If one is guilty of faults and is punished, the punishment is just, and, while the suffering is borne patiently, NO credit is due for the patience. But where one rende...
24 Isa_40:6-8. 4 Our Lord, speaking to the chief priests and elders, told them that the kingdom of God would be taken from them and given to a nation bringing forth its fruits, in proof of which He a...
2:20 bear (e-13) _ Hupomeno_ , 'endure patiently.' see 2 Timothy 2:12 ; James 5:7 (Note f). good (f-18) Not only 'good' in the sense of 'right,' but 'beneficent.' I think his mind goes beyond the serv...
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...
God does not make people suffer. It is wrong to punish someone who does what is right. Sometimes it is unfair when Christians suffer. Yet, God wants them to trust him. God blesses those who obey him....
A servant is someone who works for someone else. This other person pays the servants for their work. These verses are for all people who work for an employer. Christians should behave better than othe...
FOR WHAT GLORY IS IT. — A poetical and pagan-sounding word, not elsewhere found in the New Testament; in the Old Testament it corresponds to the word “fame,” in Job 28:22. The sense may be said to be...
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...
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...
PATIENTLY SUFFERING FOR THE MASTER Peter knew that in Christ, all men are equal (Galatians 3:28-29). However, that did not change the obligation a Christian would have to those over him. Even slaves w...
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (12) Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak again...
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...
It is not, however, an assertion without its difficulty, when he says, that _there is nothing praiseworthy in him who is justly punished_; for, when the Lord punishes our sins, patience is certainly a...
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 WHAT GLORY IS IT, IF, WHEN YE BE BUFFETED FOR YOUR FAULTS,.... Which ye have committed, and are guilty of, and are truly such: YE SHALL TAKE IT PATIENTLY? to be silent, and not murmur when beaten...
For what glory _is it_, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer _for it_, ye take it patiently, this _is_ acceptable with God. Ver. 20...
_Servants_ Οι οικεται, _household servants, be subject to your masters_ Though heathen, in all things lawful; _with all fear_ Of offending them or God; _not only to the good_ The tender, kind; _and ge...
The submission of slaves:...
FOR WHAT GLORY IS IT, IF, WHEN YE BE BUFFETED FOR YOUR FAULTS, YE SHALL TAKE IT PATIENTLY? BUT IF, WHEN YE DO WELL AND SUFFER FOR IT, YE TAKE IT PATIENTLY, THIS IS ACCEPTABLE WITH GOD. Having shown th...
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...
ACCEPTABLE: Or, thank...
_ 1 Peter 2:20 ‘For what credit is there if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds f...
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 WHAT GLORY IS IT? What praise or glory do you get by it? Or, what great matter do you do? This interrogation hath the force of negation, but is to be understood comparatively; it is worthy of prai...
1 Peter 2:20 For G1063 what G4169 credit G2811 if G1487 when G2532 beaten G2852 (G5746) faults G264 ...
‘For what glory is it, if, when you sin, and are buffeted for it, you take it patiently? But if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.' A contrast is...
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...
1 Peter 2:20. FOR WHAT GLORY IS IT (or, _what kind of glory is it_). This particular term for ‘glory,' with the general sense of _credit,_ though of very frequent use in the Classics, occurs only this...
FOR WHAT GLORY (ποιον γαρ κλεος). Qualitative interrogative (what kind of glory). "What price glory?" Κλεος is old word from κλεω (καλεω, to call), report, praise, glory, here only in N.T.IF YE SHA...
FAULTS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
1 Peter 2:20 Writing probably from Rome, certainly in one of the closing years of his life, St. Peter saw the great tendency of social and political circumstances around him towards that outbreak of v...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,-_ This is what we are to lay aside, to put away from us, to banish altogether. The...
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: If...
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: if...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,_ Putting these evil things right away from you, having nothing further to do with...
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...
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...
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...
FOR WHAT CREDIT? "If you do wrong, and are caught and punished for it, you only get what you deserve! There is no credit in this!" BUT IF YOU ENDURE. Some were _harsh_ to try to discourage the Christi...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 2:19 GRACIOUS THING comes from the Greek word for “grace.” Here it seems to be synonymous with CREDIT. Both words indicate that God will reward his people if they endure suffer...
_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 Corinthians 4:11; 1 Peter 2:19; 1 Peter 3:14; 1 Peter 4:14;...
What glory [π ο ι ο ν κ λ ε ο ς]. Lit., what kind of glory. This word for glory occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. Buffeted [κ ο λ α φ ι ζ ο μ ε ν ο ι]. See Matthew 26:67 : struck with the fist...