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1 PETER 1:12 @evn# pneu,mati {C}
On the one hand, the prevailing usage in 1 Peter (as also elsewhere in
the New Testament) favors the reading evn, attested by a C K P and
most other witnesses. On the...
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Verse 12. _UNTO WHOM IT WAS REVEALED_] We may presume that, in a
great variety of cases, the prophets did not understand the meaning of
their own predictions. They had a general view of God's designs...
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UNTO WHOM IT WAS REVEALED - They were not permitted to know fully the
import of the predictions which they were made the instruments of
communicating to mankind, but they understood that they were int...
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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...
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The section contains a deep and rich thanksgiving to God for the
certainty of an eternal fellowship with Christ. This no sufferings can
mar, nor death itself break. He is the unseen Friend, and since...
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UNTO. To.
US. The texts read "you".
MINISTER. App-190.
REPORTED. Same as "shew" in Acts 20:20.
HAVE PREACHED... YOU. Literally evangelized (App-121.) you.
WITH. App-104.
HOLY GHOST. No art. App-...
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_Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us_ The
better MSS. give "you" instead of "us," obviously with a better sense
and in closer agreement with the "you" of the following cla...
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1 Peter 1:3-13. THE HIGH PRIVILEGES AND DESTINY OF THE CHRISTIAN
_Benediction_
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for by
raising Him from the dead He has begotten us, His othe...
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ΟἿΣ�. In answer to their searching enquiry the prophets, says St
Peter, though “it was not for them to know the times and seasons
which the Father set within His own authority,” were nevertheless
perm...
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ΆΠΕΚΑΛΎΦΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΆΠΟΚΑΛΎΠΤΩ
(G601) раскрывать (Selwyn, 250ff). Богосл. _pass._
озрачает, что.откровение идет от Бога,
ΔΙΗΚΌΝΟΥΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΔΙΑΚΟΝΈΩ (G1247)
служить, прислужив...
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DISCOURSE: 2384
THE ANGELS INTERESTED ABOUT THE GOSPEL
1 Peter 1:12. _Which things the angels desire to look into_.
THE Gospel comes recommended to us by a great variety of most
important considerati...
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DISCOURSE: 2383
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PROPHECIES
1 Peter 1:10. Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and
searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto
you: searching w...
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UNTO WHOM IT WAS REVEALED,— Many of the things foretold by the
ancient prophets, did evidently relate to distant times, and many of
them to the coming of Christ, and the numerous conversions of the Je...
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_3. DEEP CONCERN OF PROPHETS AND ANGELS 1:10-12_
1 Peter 1:10-11 Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and
searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto
you: searchi...
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Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they
did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that
have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent...
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VERSE 12 UNTO WHOM IT WAS REVEALED.
The prophets were taught that the things of which they spake
concerning the coming One were to be in the future, therefore they, in
so predicting, were not ministe...
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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...
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1:12 by (g-34) _ En_ , 'in the power of.'...
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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...
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CONVERSATION HONEST] RV 'behaviour seemly': cp. 1 Peter 1:15. IN THE
DAY OF VISITATION] (from Isaiah 10:3) when God shall no longer
overlook the heathen ignorance: cp. Acts 17:30. Then the good lives...
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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...
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These *prophets of God lived before the birth of Jesus Christ. The
‘Spirit of Christ’ is another name for Christ or *Messiah or the
Spirit of God. (In Romans 8:9-10 Paul, too, uses all these names to...
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(3-12) PANEGYRIC OF THE GOSPEL FROM A HEBREW POINT OF VIEW. — The
Apostle thanks God for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That fact is
a regeneration of us, and a pledge of future glory, in view of w...
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UNTO WHOM IT WAS REVEALED. — As 1 Peter 1:11 expanded and expounded
the words “inquired and searched,” so the first part of 1 Peter
1:12 expounds the words “prophesied of the grace in reserve for
you....
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CHAPTER 3
THE UNITY AND GLORIOUSNESS OF THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION
1 Peter 1:10
THE message of the Gospel unlocks the treasures of Old Testament
revelation. Evangelists and Apostles are the exponents of...
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The ancient prophets prophesied concerning the grace which was
destined for you and enquired diligently about this salvation. They
were the unconscious instruments of the revelation of God and their
f...
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_Benediction of the Name_. The mention of God is followed by the
Benediction of the Name as Jewish piety prescribed; the formula _the
Holy One, blessed be He_, being amplified by the Christian
appreci...
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OUR IMPERISHABLE INHERITANCE
1 Peter 1:1
_ Scattered strangers_! The designation is true of us all. Note the
reference to the Trinity involved in the opening sentence. Our
inheritance is prepared and...
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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...
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THE PROPHETS LONGED TO UNDERSTAND SALVATION'S PLAN
Jesus may have referred to the prophets' desire to know about God's
plan for the salvation of man when he spoke in Matthew 13:16-17 and
Luke 10:23-24...
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Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they
did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that
have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost (f) se...
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_The Holy Ghost being sent down from heaven, on whom the Angels desire
to look. [2] This place is differently expounded. Some refer these
words, on whom the Angels desire to look, to Jesus Christ, who...
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Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently,
who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: (11) Searching
what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was...
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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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_LIGHT FROM DARKNESS_
‘Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us
they did minister.’
1 Peter 1:12
Those holy men of old, who spake as moved by the Holy Ghost, were
sometimes...
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12_Unto whom it was revealed _This passage has been strangely
perverted by fanatics, so as to exclude the fathers who lived under
the law from the hope of eternal salvation. For it does not deny that...
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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...
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UNTO WHOM IT WAS REVEALED,.... The salvation they searched and
inquired into, and the grace of it; the time of its being wrought out,
and what sort of times they would be when Christ should come, both...
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Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they
did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that
have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent d...
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_Unto whom_ So searching; _it was revealed, that not unto themselves,
but unto us_ Not so much for their own benefit as for ours, to whose
time the accomplishment of their prophecies was reserved; _th...
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THAT NOT UNTO THEMSELVES; not unto themselves chiefly. Their
revelations related to our times, and were given mainly for our
benefit.
DID MINISTER; minister by way of prophetic annuciation, the thing...
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The revelation concerning God's gift:...
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UNTO WHOM IT WAS REVEALED THAT NOT UNTO THEMSELVES, BUT UNTO US THEY
DID MINISTER THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOW REPORTED UNTO YOU BY THEM THAT
HAVE PREACHED THE GOSPEL UNTO YOU WITH THE HOLY GHOST SENT DOW...
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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),...
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_ 1 Peter 1:12 ‘It was revealed to them that they were not serving
themselves but you in these things which now have been announced to
you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spir...
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10-12 Jesus Christ was the main subject of the prophets' studies.
Their inquiry into the sufferings of Christ and the glories that
should follow, would lead to a view of the whole gospel, the sum
whe...
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UNTO WHOM; unto which prophets. IT WAS REVEALED; viz. by the Spirit of
Christ that was in them. THAT NOT UNTO THEMSELVES; who lived before
Christ's coming in the flesh. BUT UNTO US; not only apostles,...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II
Admirable sophists, and explorers of the sublimities of the unknown
Father, and rehearsers of those super-celestial mysteries "which the
angels desire to look into!...
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1 Peter 1:12 them G3739 revealed G601 (G5681) that G3754 not G3756
themselves G1438 but G1161 us G2254 ministering...
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‘Searching what time or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ
which was in them did point to, when it testified beforehand the
sufferings of (or ‘unto') Christ, and the glories that should follow
t...
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THE GREAT PRIVILEGE AND BLESSING THAT IS THEIRS AS GOD'S ELECT WHICH
EVEN ANGELS DESIRE TO LOOK INTO (1 PETER 1:3).
The result of God's foreknowing of us, and of the sanctifying work of
the Spirit is...
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THIS SALVATION IS WHAT THE PROPHETS SAW BEFORE ITS TIME AS THEY
PREPARED THE WAY FOR HIS COMING (1 PETER 1:10).
Peter now stresses that what the prophets saw ahead in previous
centuries was pointing t...
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1 Peter 1:12. TO WHOM IT WAS REVEALED, THAT NOT UNTO THEMSELVES, BUT
(rather) UNTO YOU THEY WERE MINISTERING THOSE THINGS. The better
accredited reading here is ‘unto _you'_ (not unto _us_). Peter,
th...
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The paragraph which now follows deals with the relation of the
prophets to the salvation of which they prophesied. The salvation
itself, however, continues to be the foremost thing. The notice of the...
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TO WHOM
(οις). Dative plural of the relative pronoun. To the prophets who
were seeking to understand. Bigg observes that "the connexion between
study and inspiration is a great mystery." Surely, bu...
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1 Peter 1:12
Advent Tidings.
Our text speaks of angel students, and it speaks of them as being
engaged in their eager and, if I may use the word of such high, and
blessed, and holy intelligences, in...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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GOD REVEALED. God showed the prophets that what they predicted pointed
forward to a future time. They looked forward to a New Age (Matthew
19:28) which would be the _last days_ (Acts 2:16-17) and the...
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_Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched
diligently._
SALVATION-THE CENTRAL SUBJECT OF STURDY
I. The prophets as examples to us in the study of salvation.
1. The intensity of thei...
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
1 Peter 1:3. BLESSED BE.—A characteristic Jewish recognition of
God’s mercy. Compare with 2 Corinthians 1:3; Ephesians 1:3.
ABUNDANT.—πολὺ, much. BEGOTTEN US.—The choic...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 2:10; 1 Thessalonians 1:5; 1 Thessalonians 1:6; 1
Thessalonians 2:9;...
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Did minister [δ ι η κ ο ν ο υ ν]. Imperfect tense, were
ministering. See on Mark 9:35. The term is applicable to any kind of
service, official or not. Compare 2 Corinthians 3:3.
Desire (ejpiqumousin)....
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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...
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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...
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To whom — So searching. It was revealed, that not for themselves,
but for us they ministered — They did not so much by those
predictions serve themselves, or that generation, as they did us, who
now e...