Verse 10. Which in time past were not a people] This is a quotation from Hosea 1:9; Hosea 2:23, where the calling of the Gentiles, by the preaching of the Gospel, is foretold. From this it is evident, that the people to whom the apostle now addresses himself had been Gentiles, covered with ignorance and superstition, and now had obtained mercy by the preaching of the Gospel of Christ.
WHICH IN TIME PAST WERE NOT A PEOPLE - That is, who formerly were not regarded as the people of God. There is an allusion here to the passage in Hosea 2:23, “And I will have mercy upon her that had no...
II. THE BLESSINGS AND PRIVILEGES OF ALL BELIEVERS CHAPTER 1:22-2:10 _ 1. The new birth (1 Peter 1:22)_ 2. Spiritual growth (1 Peter 2:1) 3. The privileges of believers as the holy and royal priesth...
1 Peter 1:22 to 1 Peter 2:10. The Christians, who were formerly pagans, are created a new race in Christ Jesus, and consecrated as a special priesthood of service to the whole world. Their life must b...
IN TIME PAST. once, at one time. Greek. _pote._ OBTAINED MERCY. As Romans 11:31. Compare Hosea 2:23....
_Which in time past were not a people_ The reference is to the children of Gomer, with their strange ill-omened names, Lo-Ammi and Lo-Ruhamah (Hosea 1:2.): but it may be a question whether the citatio...
ΟΥ̓ ΛΑῸΣ … ΟΥ̓Κ ἨΛΕΗΜΈΝΟΙ. In Hosea 1:6-7; Hosea 2:23, the faithlessness of Israel to Jehovah her true bridegroom is described under the figure of the prophet’s faithless wife who deserts him for fals...
INTRODUCTORY EXHORTATION FOUNDED UPON THE BENEDICTION 1 Peter 1:13 to 1 Peter 2:10 13–25. 13 The new life of hope, faith and privilege to which you have been begotten involves corresponding responsi...
ΠΟΤΕ (G4218) затем, в то время, прежде. ΉΛΕΗΜΈΝΟΙ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΈΛΕΈΩ (G1653) быть милостивым; _pass._ заслуживать помилование, проявлять сострадание и жалость к кому-л. _Perf._ подчеркивает...
DISCOURSE: 2395 THE DIFFERENT STATES OF BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS 1 Peter 2:7. Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallo...
WHICH IN TIME PAST, &C.— "Who, for ages past, were divorced from the visible church; (Jeremiah 3:8 and Hosea 1:6; Hosea 1:9.) but now, by the grace of the gospel, through Jesus Christ, are brought int...
_8. THE LIVING STONE AND SPIRITUAL HOUSE 2:3-10_ 1 Peter 2:3-4 if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious: unto whom coming, a living stone rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious. _Ex...
Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. From Hosea 1:9; Hosea 2:23. Peter plainly confirms Paul, who quotes t...
VERSE 10. WHICH IN TIME PAST WERE NOT A PEOPLE. All those called out of darkness in the time passed, while in that darkness were not the people of God, but were worshipers of idols. WHICH HAD NOT OB...
24 Isa_40:6-8. 4 Our Lord, speaking to the chief priests and elders, told them that the kingdom of God would be taken from them and given to a nation bringing forth its fruits, in proof of which He a...
2:10 mercy. (h-20) I have endeavoured to express the perfect participle of the verb 'to show mercy' by 'enjoying mercy,' and the aorist participle of the same verb by 'having found mercy.' See Hosea 1...
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...
Peter refers back to the *Old Testament. King Solomon built a temple in the city of Jerusalem about 950 years before the birth of Jesus (BC) (1 Kings 6-8). The temple was a special building where the...
Peter compares what people were like before and after they accepted Jesus. The words of this verse come from Hosea 2:23 (Paul gives a fuller explanation in Romans 9:22-26). The *prophet Hosea had two...
WHICH IN TIME PAST WERE NOT A PEOPLE. — Here at last, say some, we have a distinct proof that the Epistle was written to the Gentiles only, or, at least, to churches which contained a very small propo...
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 6 THE PRIESTHOOD OF BELIEVERS 1 Peter 2:4 LEAVING the exhortation to individual duties, the Apostle turns now to describe the Christian society in relation to its Divine Founder, and tells b...
1 Peter 2:10, from Hosea 1:6; Hosea 2:1 (3); _cf._ Romans 9:25 (has καλέσω κάλεσον of Hos.); the terms are so familiar that μου is omitted by Peter as unnecessary (c
Continuation of practical admonition with appeal to additional ground-principles illustrating the thesis of 1 Peter 1:10....
Passages of scripture proving that Christ is called stone are first utilised, then quoted, and finally expounded. The transition from _milk_ to the _stone_ may be explained by the prophecy _the hills...
BUILDING ON THE PRECIOUS CORNER-STONE 1 Peter 2:1 It is easy to lay aside malice, guile and evil speaking, when we are constantly feeding on the unadulterated milk of spiritual truth. If you have ta...
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...
RESULTS OF OBEYING CHRIST In contrast, the obedient are an "elect race" (A.S.V.) in Christ (Revelation 14:13). They are set free from their sins by Christ's blood and made to be kings and priest in Go...
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: (10) Wh...
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...
10_Which in time past were not a people _He brings for confirmation a passage from Hosea, and well accommodates it to his own purpose. For Hosea, after having in God’s name declared that the Jews were...
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...
WHICH IN TIME WERE NOT A PEOPLE,.... A "Loammi" being put upon them; see Hosea 1:9 to which the apostle here refers: God's elect, whether among Jews or Gentiles, were, from eternity, his chosen people...
Which in time past _were_ not a people, but _are_ now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Ver. 10. _Which in time past were not_] If Plato thought it such a...
_But ye Who have been born again of incorruptible seed_, and have _purified your souls by obeying the truth_, &c., (1 Peter 1:22,) and have _tasted that the Lord is gracious_, (1 Peter 2:3,) and are _...
NOT A PEOPLE-OBTAINED MERCY; quoted from Hosea 1:9-10; Hosea 2:1, upon the same principle as above....
WHICH IN TIME PAST WERE NOT A PEOPLE, BUT ARE NOW THE PEOPLE OF GOD; WHICH HAD NOT OBTAINED MERCY, BUT NOW HAVE OBTAINED MERCY. A greater contrast cannot be conceived of than that which the apostle he...
The royal priesthood of the Christians:...
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 2:10 ‘for you once were not. people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.'_ ‘FOR YOU ONCE WERE NOT. PEOPLE' -Prior to their convers...
1-10 Evil-speaking is a sign of malice and guile in the heart; and hinders our profiting by the word of God. A new life needs suitable food. Infants desire milk, and make the best endeavours for it w...
WHICH IN TIME PAST WERE NOT A PEOPLE; either, _were not a people, _ i.e. a formed state, or commonwealth, being dispersed in several countries, among other people, and not worth the name of a people:...
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews -the manna-and sufficiently bound to God by His benefits-forgot his Lord and God, saying to Aaron: "Make us gods, to go before us: for that Moses, who ejected us from...
1 Peter 2:10 who G3588 once G4218 not G3756 people G2992 but G1161 now G3568 people G2992 God G2316 who...
‘Who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.' He reminds all in the churches, both Jewish Christians and ex-Gentiles, of wh...
GOD'S PURPOSE FOR HIS BEGOTTEN AGAIN AND REDEEMED PEOPLE (1 PETER 2:1). In view of the glorious future that is theirs as previously revealed, and the responsibility that is theirs, which will now be r...
1 Peter 2:10. WHO ONCE WERE NO PEOPLE, BUT ARE NOW GOD'S PEOPLE. A solemn and summary conclusion, sketching in two bold strokes the vast contrast between their present and their past. The contrast is...
The central thing in the preceding paragraph was the Stone with the structure erected on it. The sudden transition from the figure of babes growing to that of stones built up, is by no means character...
WHICH IN TIME PAST (ο ποτε). "Who once upon a time."NO PEOPLE (ου λαος). This phrase from Hosea 2:23. Note use of ου (not ουδεις) with λαος like Hebrew negative.WHICH HAD NOT OBTAINED MERCY (ο ο...
1 Peter 2:9 The True Israel. I. "Ye are a chosen generation," the word "generation" here meaning, not contemporaries, but the offspring of one common parent, the offshoots of one original stock. The...
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...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,-_ This is what we are to lay aside, to put away from us, to banish altogether. The...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,_ Putting these evil things right away from you, having nothing further to do with...
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: if...
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: If...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice,_ This is one of the old corruptible things, so put it away from you 1 Peter 2:1. _And all guile,_ All crafty tricks, all falsehood, exaggeration, do...
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...
AT ONE TIME. "You Gentiles were once alienated and estranged from God because of your idols and your sins, and you knew nothing of God's mercy. But now through Christ, you have received God's mercy, w...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 2:10 Peter echoes texts in Hosea 1:1 that refer to Israel (Hosea 1:6,...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 2:9. CHOSEN GENERATION.—These terms describe the new spiritual Israel in terms taken from the old Israel. God chose the Abrahamic race; God called out a particu...
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 Corinthians 7:25; 1 Timothy 1:13; Hebrews 4:16; Hosea 1:10; Hosea 1:9
People [λ α ο ς]. See on ver. 9, and note the choice of the term here. A people of God. Compare Romans 9:25; Romans 9:26....
Who in time past were not a people — Much less the people of God; but scattered individuals of many nations. The former part of the verse particularly respects the gentiles; the latter, the Jews....