-
1 PETER 2:25 planw,menoi {B}
The external evidence for each reading is fairly evenly balanced
(&menoi, a A B 1505 2464 _al_; &mena( î72 C Y and most minuscules),
but in transcription the tende...
-
Verse 1 Peter 2:25. _FOR YE WERE AS SHEEP GOING ASTRAY_] Formerly ye
were not in a better moral condition than your oppressors; ye were
like _stray sheep_, in the wilderness of ignorance and sin, till...
-
FOR YE WERE AS SHEEP GOING ASTRAY - Here also is an allusion to Isaiah
53:6, “All we like sheep have gone astray.” See the notes at that
verse. The figure is plain. We were like a flock without a shep...
-
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...
-
FOR, &C. This clause and that which precedes are quoted from Isaiah
53:5; Isaiah 53:6.
BISHOP. See Philippians 1:1; Philippians 1:1
-
_For ye were as sheep going astray_ The sequence of thought is
suggested by the "all we like sheep have gone astray" of Isaiah 53:6,
but the imagery could scarcely fail to recall to the mind of the
Ap...
-
ἮΤΕ ΓᾺΡ ὩΣ ΠΡΌΒΑΤΑ ΠΛΑΝΏΜΕΝΟΙ (T.R.
πλανώμενα). St Peter means, You Gentiles may well apply to
yourselves the language of Isaiah 53 about those healed by the
suffering Servant of the Lord, for you wer...
-
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...
-
ΉΤΕ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть,
ΠΡΌΒΑΤΟΝ (G4263) овца, возможно,
отголосок Isaiah 53:6. ΠΛΑΝΏΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. pass.
(dep.) part. от_ ΠΛΑΝΆΩ (G4105) бродить,
теряться, сбиваться с пути. Part,...
-
DISCOURSE: 2399
THE NATURE OF TRUE CONVERSION STATED
1 Peter 2:25. _Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned
unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls_.
NOTHING so reconciles the Christia...
-
BISHOP OF YOUR SOULS.— The word 'Επισκοπος, here translated
_bishop,_ signifies "an overseer or inspector of any person or
business;" and it is added to the word _shepherd,_ to strengthen the
expressi...
-
_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 ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the
Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
FOR - why they need healing (1 Peter 2:24).
NOW - that the atonement for all has been made, th...
-
VERSE 25. FOR YE WERE AS SHEEP GOING ASTRAY.
That is, formerly led astray by the evil, but now are, as it were,
found, and have returned from wandering by coming to Christ.
THE SHEPHERD AND BISHOP....
-
21 Following in the footprints left by our Lord while He was on earth
is often taken as the ideal of human deportment for believers in
Christ. And so it is-for the Circumcision, to whom Peter writes....
-
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...
-
These verses use words from Isaiah 53:5-6, where they are a *prophecy
about Jesus Christ. Verse 24 is a simple way to explain *salvation.
*Sin is everything that people have done wrong against God or...
-
FOR YE WERE AS SHEEP GOING ASTRAY. — The right reading does not
attach “going astray” to “sheep,” but as predicate of the
sentence, “ye were going astray like sheep.” The “for”
introduces an explanati...
-
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...
-
= Isaiah 53:6, πάντες ὡς πρόβατα
ἐπλανήθημεν combined with Ezekiel 34:6, where this
conception of the people and their teachers (_the shepherds of
Israel_) is elaborated and the latter denounced becau...
-
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...
-
THE PURPOSE OF CHRIST'S DEATH
Peter had gone through a time when he did not understand the purpose
of Christ's death (Matthew 16:21-23). In 1 Peter 2:24, he explains the
full meaning of that great eve...
-
REFLECTIONS
Blessed Lord God the Holy Ghost! since by regeneration thou bringest
the children into their adoption character in Christ Jesus, give me
the daily influences of thy grace, that I may live...
-
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us,
leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: (22) Who did
no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: (23) Who, when...
-
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 EXALTED CHRIST_
‘Christ also suffered for us … the Shepherd and Bishop of your
souls.’
1 Peter 2:21
The Head of the Church is exalted to heaven, and we His members are
called upon to look up t...
-
_SHEPHERD AND SHEEP_
‘Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the
Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.’
1 Peter 2:25
Who would expect such allusions in an address to servants, urging...
-
25_For ye were as sheep _This also has Peter borrowed from Isaiah,
except that the Prophet makes it a universal statement,
“All we like sheep have gone astray.” (Isaiah 53:6.)
But on the word _sheep...
-
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 YE WERE AS SHEEP GOING ASTRAY,.... This is a proof of their being
healed, namely, their conversion; in which an application of the blood
of Christ, and pardon, and so healing by it, was made to th...
-
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the
Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Ver. 25. _As sheep_] Than the which no creature is more apt to stray,
less apt and able to return....
-
_Who his own self_ In his own person, and by the sacrifice of himself,
and not of another, (Hebrews 9:28,) _bare our sins_ That is, the
punishment due to them; _in his_ afflicted, torn, dying _body on...
-
THE SHEPHERD AND BISHOP; Jesus Christ, the overseer and watchman of
our souls. Isaiah 40:11....
-
FOR YE WERE AS SHEEP GOING ASTRAY, BUT ARE NOW RETURNED UNTO THE
SHEPHERD AND BISHOP OF YOUR SOULS.
The first reason for suffering wrong readily is the good pleasure of
God, the second is that of the...
-
The inspiring example of Christ:...
-
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...
-
_ 1 Peter 2:25 ‘For you were continually straying like sheep, but
now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.'_
‘FOR' -Again, reminding us why Jesus endured such suffering. He p...
-
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 YE WERE, while ye continued in your Judaism, and had not yet
received the gospel, _as sheep going astray, _ from Christ the great
Shepherd, and the church of believers his flock, and the way of
ri...
-
1 Peter 2:25 For G1063 were G2258 (G5713) like G5613 sheep G4263
astray G4105 (G5746) but G235 have...
-
‘For you were going astray like sheep, but are now returned to the
Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.'
Reference to Isaiah 53 continues in the words ‘you were going astray
like sheep', for which com...
-
1 Peter 2:25. FOR YE WERE GOING ASTRAY AS SHEEP. Continuing Isaiah's
strain, Peter adds a reason for what he has just said of a restoration
to righteousness, or soundness of life. The figure passes fr...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
YOU WERE LIKE SHEEP. "Sin had made you lose your way, just like sheep
do, and you were in danger of being lost completely, or killed by wild
animals!" BUT NOW. "God acted in Christ to set you free! By...
-
_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 Peter 5:4; Acts 20:28; Ezekiel 34:11; Ezekiel 34:23; Ezekiel 34:24
-
For ye were as sheep going astray [η τ ε γ α ρ ω ς π ρ ο β
α τ α π λ α ν ω μ ε ν ο ι]; i e., as commonly understood,
ye were like straying sheep. But the ye were should be construed with
the participl...
-
The bishop — The kind observer, inspector, or overseer of your
souls....
-
Observe here, 1. The state and condition in which both Jews and
Gentiles were found before their conversion to Christianity; they were
like sheep going astray and lost; wandering in the ways of sin an...