1 Peter 1:24

Bare our sins.. on] RM 'carried up.. to.' A sacrificial term is here used: cp. Hebrews 7:27; Hebrews 9:28; Hebrews 13:15. The tree] i.e. the Cross: cp. Deuteronomy 21:22; Acts 5:30; Acts 10:39; Acts 13:29; Galatians 3:13.

For] Once more St. Peter clenches his argument by the authority of Scripture. The quotation is taken from Isaiah 40:6, where the section of the book of Isaiah begins, in which the new life of the forgiven and restored nation is proclaimed.

New Life According to the Ancient Promise, and after the Example of Christ

B (iii). 1 Peter 2:1. St. Peter considers that the Christian is the continuation of the Jewish Church. Christ's coming has been a time of reformation (Hebrews 9:10), but there has been no break with the past. After setting forth the doctrine of salvation (1 Peter 1:3), he went on to show that it was the fulfilment of the doctrine of the prophets (1 Peter 1:10). Now, after writing about the new life of Christians (1 Peter 1:13), and showing that it also had been promised in prophecy (1 Peter 1:24), he bids his readers in the half-playful language of metaphor (cp. Hebrews 5:12) to live simply, like new-born babes, nourished on simple, spiritual food, which the Lord Himself gives them, as has been signified in OT. (1 Peter 2:1). He then shows that the Lord named in his quotation has been manifested in Jesus Christ, who is the comer-stone, spoken of in the Psalm, of the spiritual Temple which is being built up of His people to take the place of the old Jewish Temple with its imperfect sacrifices (1 Peter 2:4). Obedience to the faith, not privilege of race, is the means by which this union with Christ in the new Temple is effected (1 Peter 2:7.). Finally, he brings title after title of the chosen people from OT., and applies them to his readers, teaching them how their new position makes them God's royal priests and prophets to the world, and closes with a quotation from Hosea, the prophet of God's loving-kindness, which must touch their hearts, and commend all that he has said (1 Peter 2:9.).