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 things which are now announced to you as facts.
Which things; foretold by the prophets, and revealed in the gospel.
Angels desire to look; the church on earth and its salvation are objects of sturdy and admiration in heaven.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
1:12 by (g-34) _ En_ , 'in the power of.'...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
(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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
The revelation concerning God's gift:...
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),...
_ 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...
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...
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,...
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!...
1 Peter 1:12 them G3739 revealed G601 (G5681) that G3754 not G3756 themselves G1438 but G1161 us G2254 ministering...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:12 YOU. That is, NT believers. ANGELS LONG to understand fully what has been accomplished. Christians have heard this GOOD NEWS in the gospel proclaimed to them.
_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...
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...
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...
1 Corinthians 2:10; 1 Thessalonians 1:5; 1 Thessalonians 1:6; 1 Thessalonians 2:9;...
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)....
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...
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...
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...