Verse 3. For the time past of our life.
The life we lived before conversion in all the excesses indulged in by the Gentiles is here alluded to. These excesses were in accord with our wills and desires at the time we engaged with the Gentiles therein. For us that has been sufficient. Being enlightened now by the gospel of Christ, we no longer so walk, we no longer so conduct ourselves, and we can not and at the same time obey God.
Verse 1 Peter 4:3. _THE TIME PAST OF_ OUR _LIFE_] This is a complete epitome of the Gentile or heathen state, and a proof that those had been Gentiles to whom the apostle wrote. 1. They _walked in la...
FOR THE TIME PAST OF OUR LIFE MAY SUFFICE US - “We have spent sufficient time in indulging ourselves, and following our wicked propensities, and we should hereafter live in a different manner.” This d...
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...
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THE OBLIGATION OF THE CHRISTIAN (1 Peter 4:1-5)...
OF _ OUR_ LIFE. The texts omit. MAY SUFFICE. is sufficient (Greek. _arketos._ Only here and Matthew 6:34; Matthew 10:25). US. The texts omit. WILL. App-102., as above, but the texts read App-102....
_For the time past of our life may suffice_ The language is that of grave irony. Enough time, and more than enough, had been already given to the world. Was it not well to give some time now to God? T...
1 Peter 3:13 to 1 Peter 4:6. GOOD AND EVIL DOING IN RELATION TO SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF HEATHEN, ILLUSTRATED BY THE SUFFERINGS OR CHRIST AND THEIR EFFECTS 1 Peter 3:17 to...
ἈΡΚΕΤῸΣ ΓΆΡ. The γάρ explains ἐπίλοιπον, I say “what _remains_ of your life” _for_ the sinful past has been all too long. ΒΟΎΛΗΜΑ ΤΩ͂Ν ἘΘΝΩ͂Ν. The T.R. reads θέλημα as in the previous verse of the wil...
ΆΡΚΕΤΌΣ (G713) достаточный. Значение этого слова "более чем достаточный" "довольный" (Веаге). Слово это может использоваться иронически: "более чем достаточный" (Kelly; Goppelt). ΠΑΡΕΛΗΛΥΘΏΣ _perf. a...
DISCOURSE: 2405 A WORLDLY LIFE TO BE RELINQUISHED 1 Peter 4:3. _The time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles_. THE end of all God’s dispensations towards his peop...
FOR THE TIME PAST OF OUR LIFE, &C.— St. Peter did not mean that it is lawful for men to satiate themselves with vice, and that they need not leave it off till they are weary of it; but he stirs up tho...
1 PETER 4:3 FOR THE TIME PAST MAY SUFFICE TO HAVE WROUGHT THE DESIRE OF THE GENTILES, AND TO HAVE WALKED IN LASCIVIOUSNESS, LUSTS, WINEBIBBINGS, REVELLINGS, CAROUSINGS, AND ABOMINABLE IDOLATRIES: _Ex...
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:...
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...
WILL] RV 'desire,' contrasted with the will of God....
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...
Peter is writing this letter to *Jews and Gentiles who have become Christians. ‘Gentile’ is the name that the *Jews gave to anyone who was not a *Jew. The Gentiles did not know about the only real God...
FOR THE TIME PAST OF OUR LIFE. — There are two words in the English here which do not stand in the true text, and sadly impede the sense. They are “of our life,” and “us.” The first is added by some s...
CHAPTER 12 THE LESSONS OF SUFFERING 1 Peter 4:1 IT is always hard to swim against the stream; and if the effort be a moral one, the difficulty is not lessened. These early Christians were finding it...
The use of the rare ἀρκετός indicates the saying which St. Peter here applies, _sufficient unto the day_ [that is past] _its evil_. Compare Ezekiel 44:6, ἱκανούσθω ὑμῖν ἀπὸ πασῶν τῶν ἀνομιῶν ὑμῶν. The...
THE NEW LIFE IN CHRIST 1 Peter 4:1 The Apostle urges the disciples to make a clean break with sin. As our Lord's grave lay between Him and His earlier life, so there should be a clean break between o...
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...
"Licentiousness" describes uncontrolled desires, such as, gluttony and sensual passions. "Lusts" is a word describing desire for things forbidden. "Drunkenness" and wild drinking parties, or "revelrie...
(2) For the time past of [our] life may suffice us to have wrought the (b) will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolat...
For the time past is sufficient, &c. As if he said, you who were Gentiles, have already lived too long in vices before your conversion; so that they who are not yet converted, admire [1] at the change...
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; (2) That he no longer should live t...
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3_For the time past of our life may suffice _Peter does not mean that we ought to be wearied with pleasures, as those are wont to be who are filled with them to satiety; but that on the contrary the m...
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...
FOR THE TIME PAST OF OUR LIFE MAY SUFFICE US,.... The word "our" is left out in the Alexandrian copy, and in the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions. The Arabic version reads, "the time of your past lif...
For the time past of _our_ life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: V...
_For the time past of our life may suffice us_ Αρκετος ημιν, _is sufficient for us; to have wrought the will of the Gentiles_ The expression is soft, but conveys a very strong meaning, namely, that in...
WROUGHT THE WILL OF THE GENTILES; lived as do the heathen, for sensual gratifications. ABOMINABLE IDOLATRIES; of the gentile world. See the introduction to this epistle....
ADMONITIONS IN VIEW OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. Ceasing from sin:...
FOR THE TIME PAST OF OUR LIFE MAY SUFFICE US TO HAVE WROUGHT THE WILL OF THE GENTILES, WHEN WE WALKED IN LASCIVIOUSNESS, LUSTS, EXCESS OF WINE, REVELINGS, BANQUETINGS, AND ABOMINABLE IDOLATRIES;...
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 4:3 ‘For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued. course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousals, drinking parties and...
1-6 The strongest and best arguments against sin, are taken from the sufferings of Christ. He died to destroy sin; and though he cheerfully submitted to the worst sufferings, yet he never gave way to...
FOR THE TIME PAST OF OUR BE MAY SEE: the apostle doth not mean by this expression merely that they should forbear their former lusts out of a satiety and weariness, as having had their fill of them, b...
Shepherd of Hermas Commandment Eighth " "What, sir," say I, "are the evil deeds from which we must restrain ourselves? "Hear," says he: "from adultery and fornication, from unlawful revelling,[3] Cle...
1 Peter 4:3 For G1063 we G2254 enough G713 past G3928 (G5756) lifetime G979 G5550 doing G2716 ...
‘For the time past may be seen as sufficient to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-parties, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries,'...
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...
CHRIST'S SUFFERING IN THE FLESH SHOULD ARM THEM FOR THE BATTLE AHEAD WITH ONE EYE ON THE COMING JUDGMENT AND ON THE RESURRECTION (1 PETER 4:1). Peter tells us that by being made one with Christ in His...
1 Peter 4:3. FOR SUFFICIENT IS THE TIME PAST TO HAVE WROUGHT THE WILL OF THE GENTILES. Here the A. V. inserts two phrases, viz. ‘of our life' and ‘us,' which weight of evidence compels us to omit. Acc...
This paragraph brings to an end the series of counsels which began with chap. 1 Peter 2:11, and have dealt with what is essential to a becoming ‘conversation among the Gentiles.' Christian duty in rel...
PAST (παρεληλυθως). Perfect active participle of the compound verb παρερχομα, old verb, to go by (beside) as in Matthew 14:15 with ωρα (hour).MAY SUFFICE (αρκετος). No copula in the Greek, probabl...
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...
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...
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....
YOU HAVE SPENT ENOUGH TIME. "You never should have lived this way at all, but whatever time you spent was too much!" Indecency. Here the word means: "one who actually practices immorality, adultery, i...
THE CALL TO HOLY LIVING _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 4:1. IN THE FLESH.—Or to the flesh; _i.e_., so far as the flesh is concerned. The same sphere IN which Christian disciples were called...
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 6:11; 1 Kings 21:26; 1 Peter 1:14; 1 Thessalonians 4:5;...
For the time past, etc. Compare Romans 13:13. Us [η μ ι ν]. The best texts omit. Of our life [τ ο υ β ι ο υ]. The best texts omit. Will (boulhma, the better reading for qelhma). Desire, inclination....
Revellings, banquetings — Have these words any meaning now? They had, seventeen hundred years ago. Then the former meant, meetings to eat; meetings, the direct end of which was, to please the taste: t...
Observe here, 1. That this epistle was written and directed, not only to the Jewish natives, but to the Gentile proselytes and converts; this is evident from the apostle's putting them in mind that th...