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Verse 16. _AS FREE_] The Jews pretended that they were a free people,
and owed allegiance to God alone; hence they were continually
rebelling against the Roman government, to which God had subjected
t...
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AS FREE - That is, they were to consider themselves as freemen, as
having a right to liberty. The Jews boasted much of their freedom, and
regarded it as a birthright privilege that they were free, Joh...
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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...
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1 Peter 2:13. As Jesus had given them an example so were they to live
in all dutiful obedience to human authority from the emperor to his
representatives, since they constituted the bulwarks of the St...
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USING. having.
CLOKE. Greek. _epikalumma._ Only here. The word _kalumma_ only in 2
Corinthians 3:13.
SERVANTS. App-190....
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_as free, and not using your liberty for a cloke_ The English text
gives the impression that the word "free" is closely connected with
the preceding verse. In the Greek, however, the adjective is in t...
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ΕΛΕΎΘΕΡΟΣ (G1658) свободный,
освобожденный. Идеальная жизнь
описывается как свобода, потому что в
древнем мире разница между рабом и
свободным была очень велика.
Выкупленный на свободу мог жить в
семь...
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DISCOURSE: 2396
SUBJECTION TO CIVIL GOVERNMENT
1 Peter 2:13. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the
Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto
governors, as unto them tha...
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AS FREE— The Gentiles, by becoming Christians, were freed from the
bondage of sin; they were likewise free from subjection to the Mosaic
law: they were become the _Lord's people,_ and _freemen._ Such...
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IV. DUTIES TOWARD OTHERS 2:133:12
_1. Toward Civil Government 2:13-17_
1 Peter 2:13-14 Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's
sake: whether to the king as supreme; or unto governors, as...
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As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but
as the servants of God.
AS FREE - from sin, and to duty: 'the Lord's freemen' (1 Corinthians
7:22), connected with 1 Peter 2:15...
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VERSE 16. AS FREE, AND NOT USING YOUR LIBERTY FOR A CLOAK.
Christians are free from the law of sin. They are no longer under
bondage to it, but you must not use this liberty as a covering for
wrong-d...
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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...
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2:16 malice, (o-12) In the Greek there are articles before 'liberty'
and 'malice,' thus emphasizing the contrast. 'that thing liberty as
cloak of that thing malice.'...
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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...
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Jesus has set Christians free from the power of *sin. But this does
not mean that that they can now do anything they like. They must obey
God and do what is right. But it does mean that *sin is no lon...
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AS FREE. — This points at once to what was the gist of the
accusation. The Christian took up a position of complete independence
within, and professed himself in a certain sense to be above the laws,...
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CHAPTER 7
CHRISTIANS AS PILGRIMS IN THE WORLD
1 Peter 2:11
THE Apostle opens his exhortations with a word eminently Christian:
"Beloved." It is a word whose history makes us alive to and thankful
fo...
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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...
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The duty of the Christian towards the State; compare Romans 13:1-7.
πάσῃ ἀνθρωπίνῃ κτίσει, _every human
institution_, including rulers (14), masters (18), and husbands (1
Peter 3:1). κτίζειν is used o...
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ὡς ἐλεύθεροι, the contrast with τῆς κακίας
supports the connection of ἐ, in thought with
ἀγαθοποιοῦντας, which explains the nature of the
self-subjection required. Christians are _free_ (Matthew 17:26...
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THE CHRISTIAN PILGRIM'S WALK
1 Peter 2:11
Strong desires must be kept under the stronger hand of the Christian
soul-not extirpated but turned into right directions as God's
providence points the way....
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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...
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THE CHRISTIAN AND GOVERNMENT
Peter had received some personalized instruction from the Lord as to
his attitude toward governments and may have heard what Christ told
Pilate (Matthew 17:24-27; John 19:...
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As free; to wit, from the slavery of sin, but take care not to make
this Christian freedom and liberty a cloak for malice, as they do, who
pretend that this makes subjects free from their obedience to...
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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...
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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...
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_CHRIST’S FREE-MEN_
‘As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness,
but as the servants of God.’
1 Peter 2:16
After affectionately enjoining upon his ‘dearly beloved’ the
paramou...
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_THE AMBITION OF LIFE_
‘Servants of God.’
1 Peter 2:16
I wish to set before you service as the great object and ambition of
life. There can be no more princely motto than this ‘I serve.’
I. SERVIC...
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16_As free _This is said by way of anticipation, that he might obviate
those things which are usually objected to with regard to the liberty
of God’s children. For as men are naturally ingenious in la...
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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...
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AS FREE,.... These converted Jews might value themselves on their
freedom, partly as the descendants of Abraham, and so freeborn, and
not to be brought into bondage to other people; and chiefly becaus...
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As free, and not using _your_ liberty for a cloke of maliciousness,
but as the servants of God.
Ver. 16. _As free_] _See Trapp on "_ Gal 5:13 _"_
As free, and not using, &c.] Free in respect of our...
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_As free_ In the noblest sense, in consequence of your relation to
Christ, and your interest in the merit of his death; (see on John
8:32; 1 Corinthians 7:22; Galatians 5:1;...
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AS FREE; free from the service of Satan, and from slavish bondage to
human ordinances. Compare Galatians 5:13.
FOR A CLOAK OF MALICIOUSNESS; not abusing your liberty by making it a
cover for doing wr...
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Obedience to the constituted authorities:...
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AS FREE, AND NOT USING YOUR LIBERTY FOR A CLOAK OF MALICIOUSNESS, BUT
AS THE SERVANTS OF GOD....
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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...
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USING:
_ Gr._ having...
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_ 1 Peter 2:16 ‘Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as.
covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.'_
_‘ACT AS FREE MEN'_ -‘live as free men'. 1. Christians have been
liberated from s...
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13-17 A Christian conversation must be honest; which it cannot be, if
there is not a just and careful discharge of all relative duties: the
apostle here treats of these distinctly. Regard to those du...
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AS FREE; he prevents an objection; they might pretend they were a free
people, as Jews, and therefore were not to obey strangers, DEUTERONOMY
17:15 1 THESSALONIANS 8:33; and made free by Christ. He an...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV
[All this is declared,] that we may know that we shall give account to
God not of deeds only, as slaves, but even of words and thoughts, as
those who have truly rece...
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1 Peter 2:16 as G5613 free G1658 yet G2532 not G3361 using G2192
(G5723) liberty G1657 as G5613 cloak...
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‘As free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but
as bondservants of God.'
By this they will be recognising that, while as God's own children (1
Peter 1:3) they are free, they are no...
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THEY ARE TO BE OBEDIENT TO THE AUTHORITIES (1 PETER 2:13).
He emphasises here that being sojourners does not mean that Christians
are rebels or that they deny their responsibilities towards authority....
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The relative duties of Christians are now taken up as essentially
concerned in that self-restraint and seemliness of conduct which was
to be the best refutation of mischievous misrepresentation, and t...
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1 Peter 2:16. AS FREE, AND NOT AS HAVING YOUR FREEDOM FOR A COVERING
OF WICKEDNESS, BUT AS BOND SERVANTS OF GOD. Liberty is apt to
degenerate into licence. Milton speaks of those who
‘Bawl for freedo...
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AS FREE
(ως ελευθερο). Note nominative again connected with
υποταγητε in verse 1 Peter 2:13, not with φιμοιν in
verse 1 Peter 2:14 (a parenthesis in fact). For this ethical sense of
ελευθερος see Ga...
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1 Peter 2:16
Christian Freedom.
I. We are here warned against two great enemies of our souls, which
are ever seeking to bring us into bondage, and to substitute for the
true Christian liberty the fan...
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1 Peter 2:16
I. The designation "servant of God" embodies an opinion or theory
about human life. When a being like man finds himself in this present
sphere of existence, with the endowments of thought...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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LIVE AS FREE MEN. _MacKnight_ says: "The Jews boasted in their having
been at all times freemen; that is, in having been always governed by
their own laws, John 8:33. In this sense, the precept _live...
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1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 2:16 Compare Galatians 5:13.
⇐...
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
1 Peter 2:13. SUBMIT YOURSELVES.—This belongs to the care Christians
should take not to be in any sense an occasion of offence in Society
(Romans 13:1). ORDINANCE OF MA...
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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...
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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....
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1 Corinthians 7:22; 1 Thessalonians 2:5; 2 Peter 2:19; Colossians
3:24;...
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Using [ε χ ο ν τ ε ς]. Lit., having or holding.
Cloke [ε π ι κ α λ υ μ μ α]. Only here in New Testament.
Lit., a veil. The idea is that of using Christian freedom as a mask
for ungodly license. Paul...
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As free — Yet obeying governors, for God's sake....
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Here our apostle answers an objection, which he foresaw the Christian
Jews ready to make against this duty of subjection, namely, "that they
were. free people, as Jews, and ought to preserve their lib...