Verse 12. Beloved, think it not strange.
These Christians were being persecuted even to the extent of being burned. at the stake for their faith. They might well wonder if their Christianity led them only into right-doing that they should suffer. Yet the apostle says: Wonder not; this trial of faith has happened to the people of God before. You are not an exception; you must expect to endure suffering.
Verse 12. _THINK IT NOT STRANGE CONCERNING THE FIERY TRIAL_] πυρωσει. _The burning_. The metaphor is old, but noble; it represents the Christians at Pontus as having _fire_ cast upon them for the _try...
BELOVED, THINK IT NOT STRANGE - Do not consider it as anything which you had no reason to expect; as anything which may not happen to others also. CONCERNING THE FIERY TRIAL WHICH IS TO TRY YOU - Refe...
IV. THE COMFORT IN THE MIDST OF TRIALS AND SUFFERING CHAPTER 3:10-4:19 _ 1. The comfort in suffering (1 Peter 3:10)_ 2. Few saved as illustrated by Noah's preaching (1 Peter 3:18) 3. The new life i...
The section repeats ideas that have already appeared (1 Peter 2:18; 1 Peter 3:13), only they are emphasized by the imminence (1 Peter 4:17) of severe trial....
THE OBLIGATION OF THE CHRISTIAN (1 Peter 4:1-5)...
Beloved, do not regard the fiery ordeal through which you are passing and which has happened to you to test you, as something strange, as if some alien experience were happening to you, but rejoice in...
BELOVED. App-135. CONCERNING. as to. THE FIERY TRIAL, &C. Literally the fire (of persecution) which is among (App-104.) you, coming to you for (App-104.) trial. Not coming in the future, but. presen...
_Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you_ More literally, BE NOT AMAZED (see, for the word, notes on 1 Peter 4:4) AT THE BURNING FIRE AMONG YOU THAT COMES TO YOU A...
12 FF. Having described two of the results of Christ’s sufferings in the flesh as being applicable also to His members, viz. (_a_) the termination of sin, (_b_) a life of service in the spirit, St Pet...
ΆΓΑΠΗΤΌΣ (G27) любимый, возлюбленный, ΞΕΝΊΖΕΣΘΕ _praes. imper. pass. от_ ΞΕΝΊΖΩ (G3579) развлекать, принимать гостей (_см._ 1 Peter 4:4). ΠΎΡΩΣΙΣ (G4451) горение; перен. очищение. Это слово часто об...
DISCOURSE: 2408 PERSECUTION FOR CHRIST’S SAKE 1 Peter 4:12. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice, i...
_1 PETER 4:12_.— St. Peter here returns to what he has often touched upon in this epistle; namely, to exhort the Christians to behave with patience and integrity under their present severe persecution...
1 PETER 4:12-13 BELOVED, THINK IT NOT STRANGE CONCERNING THE FIERY TRIALS AMONG YOU, WHICH COMETH UPON YOU TO PROVE YOU, AS THOUGH A STRANGE THING HAPPENED UNTO YOU: BUT INSOMUCH AS YE ARE PARTAKERS O...
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: STRANGE - they might think it strange that God should allow His chosen...
19 Who are these imprisoned spirits ? Are they not the same that Peter mentions in his second epistle (1Pe_2:4) who were thrust down to the gloomy caverns of Tartarus, and the messengers of Jude's epi...
THE SECURITY OF THE FAITHFUL IN THE APPROACHING JUDGMENT _C_ (ii). 1 Peter 4:1. 'This is your faith: live then in accordance with it. Arm yourselves against your troubles by resolving to be like Chris...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 4 LIVING FOR GOD v1 Christ suffered while he was in his human body. Each one of you Christians must be ready to suffer as he did. If you suf...
‘Dear Christian friends’. Peter loves and cares about the people to whom he is writing. Again, he says that Christians should not be surprised when they have painful troubles. The *Greek word for ‘pai...
BELOVED. — See Note on 1 Peter 2:11. THINK IT NOT STRANGE. — The same word as in 1 Peter 4:4. It means, literally, to feel like people in a strange country, lost and bewildered. It is. further explain...
(12-19) EXHORTATION TO COURAGE AND STEADFASTNESS IN PERSECUTION. — All ought to be prepared for persecution. It is a blessed and glorious thing to have to bear it. A criminal’s death and a Christian m...
CHAPTER 14 THE BELIEVER'S DOUBLE JOY 1 Peter 4:12 AFTER the benediction in 1 Peter 4:11, we might have supposed that the exhortations of the Apostle were ended. But he now proceeds to make general a...
ἀγαπητοί marks the beginning of the third division of the Epistle in which Peter having cleared the ground faces at last the pressing problem. ξενίζεσθε, _be surprised_, as in 1 Peter 4:4. τῇ ἐν ὑμῖν...
SUFFERING AS A CHRISTIAN 1 Peter 4:12 We are called upon to share our Savior's sufferings-not those of His substitution, but His daily self-denial, the hatred of men, the anguish of His soul over the...
The whole force of the argument which the apostle has used in speaking thus of the Christ was to show these saints how through suffering Christ reached a triumph, and to call them to arm themselves wi...
GLORIFYING GOD IN SUFFERING Trials are a part of the Christian's life and should not surprise him (John 15:18-20; 2 Timothy 3:12). Woods says of the "fiery trial," "the figure here used is that of gol...
(11) Beloved, think it not (d) strange (12) concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: (11) Because that cross is joined with the sincere professi...
_Think not strange, &c. Be not surprised, nor discouraged that a hot and sharp persecution is come upon you at this time, as if it were a new and an extraordinary thing. It is what you must expect and...
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: (13) But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; tha...
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...
_THE PROBLEM OF PAIN_ ‘Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you … but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice; that...
12_Beloved, think it not strange, _or, _wonder not_. There is a frequent mention made in this Epistle of afflictions; the cause of which we have elsewhere explained. But this difference is to be obser...
From the beginning of this Chapter to the end of Verse, the apostle continues to speak of the general principles of God's government, exhorting, the Christian to act on the principles of Christ Him el...
BELOVED, THINK IT NOT STRANGE CONCERNING THE FIERY TRIAL,.... By which may be meant either the destruction of Jerusalem, which was at hand, and of which the apostle may be thought to give the Jews he...
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: Ver. 12. _Think it not strange_] _Ne tanquam hospites percellamini._ Stan...
_Think it not strange_, &c. Wonder not at _the fiery trial_ The dreadful series of furious and bitter persecutions. The original expression, εν υμιν πυρωσει, is literally, _the burning which is among...
FIERY TRIAL; the great sufferings which were coming upon them....
The Christians partakers of Christ's sufferings:...
BELOVED, THINK IT NOT STRANGE CONCERNING THE FIERY TRIAL WHICH IS TO TRY YOU AS THOUGH SOME STRANGE THING HAPPENED UNTO YOU;...
Christ's suffering in the flesh is set before us then as an example; not His sufferings for us in atonement, which were His alone, but His sufferings in a contrary world, in precious, lowly grace. We...
_ 1 Peter 4:12 ‘Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though some strange thing were happening to you;'_ ‘DO NOT BE SURPRISED' -‘present...
12-19 By patience and fortitude in suffering, by dependence on the promises of God, and keeping to the word the Holy Spirit hath revealed, the Holy Spirit is glorified; but by the contempt and reproa...
THINK IT NOT STRANGE; be not offended or troubled at persecution, as at a thing unusual or never heard of; it implies that they should reckon upon it beforehand, that they might not be surprised with...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV If ye be reproached in the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth on you."[71] Cyprian Epistle LV If ye be reproached in the...
1 Peter 4:12 Beloved G27 do G3579 not G3361 strange G3579 (G5744) the G5213 trial G4451 which G1722 is...
PERSECUTION IS A NECESSARY RESULT OF THEIR BEING UNITED WITH CHRIST IN HIS SUFFERINGS FOR IT IS THE FIRST STAGE IN THE JUDGMENT THAT IS COMING ON ALL (1 PETER 4:12). Peter still has his eye firmly fix...
‘Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which is coming on you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened to you, but in as much as you are partakers of Christ's suf...
APPLICATION OF THE PREVIOUS THEME, AND REMINDER OF THE COMING JUDGMENT (1 PETER 4:1). Having portrayed the great and all encompassing victory of Jesus Christ through suffering, Peter now applies the i...
In this second series of exhortations to Christian duty as that is affected by the prospect of the end, Peter takes up again the case of persecution which he has touched on more than once already. The...
1 Peter 4:12. BELOVED, THINK IT NOT STRANGE CONCERNING THE FIERY TRIAL. So far the translation of the A. V. is a very happy one. The same verb is used here as in 1 Peter 4:4 (which see), and with the...
THINK IT NOT STRANGE (μη ξενιζεσθε). Prohibition with μη and the present passive imperative of ξενιζω, for which verb see 1 Peter 4:4. "Be not amazed."CONCERNING THE FIERY TRIAL AMONG YOU (τε εν υ...
1 Peter 4:1. _Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind:_ Accepting this great truth, that it is well that the flesh should die that the s...
1 Peter 4:1. _Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin:_ Brethren, we have a...
CONTENTS: Exhortations to mortification of sin and living unto God. Suffering with Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Christ having suffered so much for us, should cause us to fortify ourse...
1 Peter 4:3. _The will of the gentiles._ Augustine in his city of God, should be read to see the excess and abominable idolatries of the gentiles. See the notes on Ephesians 5:12; Romans 1....
DO NOT BE SURPRISED. "Do not think the painful test is something which never happened to the people of God before!...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 4:12. STRANGE.—Do not be surprised, as if something unreasonable had happened. No form of suffering can come to Christians as accident. God, with a purpose of g...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 4:1 FORASMUCH THEN AS CHRIST HATH SUFFERED FOR US IN THE FLESH. St. Peter returns, after the digression of 1 Peter 3:19, to the great subject of Christ's example. The words "for...
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us (1 Peter 4:1) That is, has gone to the cross. in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that has suffered (1 Peter 4:1) Or come...
1 Corinthians 10:13; 1 Corinthians 3:13; 1 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 4:4;...
Think it not strange [μ η ξ ε ν ι ζ ε σ θ ε]. i e., alien from you and your condition as Christians. Compare 1 Peter 5:4. Fiery trial [π υ ρ ω σ ε ι]. The word means burning. In Proverbs 27:21 (Sept.)...
SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS 1 Peter 4:12 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are several things about suffering for Christ which need to be emphasized. 1. CHRISTIANS ARE NOT EXEMPT FROM SUFFERING. Asaph said, "I was...
Wonder not at the burning which is among you — This is the literal meaning of the expression. It seems to include both martyrdom itself, which so frequently was by fire, and all the other sufferings j...
Observe here, 1. The metaphor which the apostle uses to set forth the Christian's afflictions and persecutions by; he calls them FIERY TRIALS: burnings, because very painful and afflictive, very griev...