Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 Peter 2:3
(3) If so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious.
(3) He commends that spiritual nourishment for the sweetness and profit of it.
(3) If so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious.
(3) He commends that spiritual nourishment for the sweetness and profit of it.
1 PETER 2:3 eiv {B} The reading eiv, supported by early representatives of the Alexandrian type of text (î72 a* A B), was improved stylistically in later witnesses by using the more subtle ei;per ...
Verse 1 Peter 2:3. _IF SO BE YE HAVE TASTED_] ειπερ εγευσασθε. _Seeing ye_ _have tasted_. There could be no _doubt_ that they had tasted the goodness of Christ _who were born again, of incorruptible s...
IF SO BE YE HAVE TASTED THAT THE LORD IS GRACIOUS - Or rather, as Doddridge renders it, “Since you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.” The apostle did not mean to express any doubt on the subject,...
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...
IF SO BE. If. App-118. HAVE. Omit. TASTED. Compare Hebrews 6:4; Hebrews 6:5. LORD. App-98. GRACIOUS. App-184....
_if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious_ Better, IF YE TASTED, as referring more definitely to the experiences of the first period of their life as Christians. The word "tasted" as applied...
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...
ΕἸ ἘΓΕΎΣΑΣΘΕ ὍΤΙ ΧΡΗΣΤῸΣ Ὁ ΚΎΡΙΟΣ. The words are doubtless borrowed from Psalms 34:8, “O taste and see that the Lord is gracious,” where χρηστός is merely the LXX. rendering for the Hebrew “good” and...
ΈΓΕΎΣΑΣΘΕ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΓΕΎΟΜΑΙ (G1089) вкушать. Ind. используется в _conj._ 1 типа, предполагающем реальность условия, ΧΡΗΣΤΌΣ (G5543) полезный, благой, хороший....
DISCOURSE: 2391 GROWTH IN GRACE IS TO BE DESIRED 1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as new-born babes, desire the sin...
IF YE BE YE HAVE TASTED— "And I am satisfied that ye will do so, _seeing you have_ already _tasted_ how sweet and pleasant the Gospel is, or know by experience _that the Lord is gracious."_ This is an...
_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...
If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. Peter alludes to Psalms 34:8 The first tastes of God's goodness are afterward followed by fuller experiences A Peter alludes to Psalms 34:8. The f...
VERSE 3. IF SO BE YE HAVE TASTED THAT THE LORD IS GRACIOUS. The Vulgate uses the word "sweet" in lieu of the word "gracious." I can not see how that expression, even if adopted, throws any additional...
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...
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 now describes the word of God as ‘pure *spiritual milk’. *Spiritual means linked to a person’s spirit and not to his or her physical body. A Christian should want God’s word as much as a baby wa...
IF SO BE YE HAVE TASTED. — The “if so be,” as elsewhere (2 Thessalonians 1:6, Note), constitutes a strong appeal to the readers to say whether it were not so. St. Peter confidently reckons that it is...
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...
Continuation of practical admonition with appeal to additional ground-principles illustrating the thesis of 1 Peter 1:10....
St. Peter adopts the language of Psalms 34:9, omitting καὶ ἔδετε as inappropriate to γάλα. χρηστός (identical in sound with χριστός) = _dulcis_ (Vulg.) or _kind_ (_cf._ χρηστότης θεοῦ, Romans 2:4; Rom...
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...
DRINKING THE MILK OF THE WORD Having emptied their lives of the above, Christians should vigorously and repeatedly seek the milk of the word, just as a baby cries for milk which is his only source of...
Whoever has a relish for Jesus Christ, has also for his word; and such as have a relish for neither, are truly deplorable. Let us pray then that God would feed us with his word, and with the holy Euch...
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, (2) As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: (3) If so be...
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...
3_If so be that ye have tasted; _or, _If indeed ye have tasted_. He alludes to Psalms 34:8, “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” But he says that this taste is to be had in Christ, as, doubtless, o...
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...
IF SO BE YE HAVE TASTED THAT THE LORD IS GRACIOUS. Reference is had to Psalms 34:8, "O taste and see that the Lord is good"; and the Syriac version here adds, "if ye have seen": by the Lord is meant,...
If so be ye have tasted that the Lord _is_ gracious. Ver. 3. _If so be ye have tasted_] As babes taste the milk they take down, Isaiah 66:11. We are bidden to suck and be satisfied with the breasts o...
_Wherefore_ Since the word of God is so excellent and durable in itself, and has had such a blessed effect upon you as to regenerate you, and bring you to the enjoyment of true Christian love; _laying...
TASTED; learned by your own blessed experience. Psalms 34:8. THE LORD; the Lord Jesus....
FURTHER PRACTICAL ADMONITIONS. 1 Peter 2:1 Growth in holiness:...
IF SO BE YE HAVE TASTED THAT THE LORD IS GRACIOUS. The apostle here continues the admonitions which he began in chapter 1, placing the old evil life of the unconverted in opposition to the sanctificat...
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 2:3 ‘if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord'_ ‘IF' -or since. The tense of the verb reveals that Peter is assuming that they have. _‘TASTED THE KINDNESS OF THE LORD'_ -‘Tasted'-Feel, t...
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...
IF SO BE; this doth not imply a doubting, but a supposition, as was before observed, 1 PETER 1:17. YE HAVE TASTED; not lightly tasted by a bare ineffectual knowledge, as HEBREWS 6:4; but experienced a...
Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus the doctrine of the cross; of which if any man "taste,"[64]...
1 Peter 2:3 indeed G1512 tasted G1089 (G5662) that G3754 Lord G2962 gracious G5543 Psalms 9:10
‘Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil talk, in the same way as newborn babes do, long for the unadulterated milk of the word, that by it you...
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 2:3. IF INDEED YE TASTED THAT THE LORD IS GOOD. A condition is added which represents the previous charge as one which is applicable indeed only to those who have a particular personal experie...
IF YE HAVE TASTED (ε εγευσασθε). Condition of first class with ε and first aorist middle indicative of γευω in figurative sense as in Hebrews 6:4. "A taste excites the appetite" (Bengel).GRACIOUS...
1 Peter 2:3 The Spiritual Temple of Priestly Worshippers. I. We have in the text a spiritual house: "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house." Christ is the foundation; and as stone...
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,_ 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...
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, 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,-_ This is what we are to lay aside, to put away from us, to banish altogether. The...
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...
FOR THE SCRIPTURE SAYS. Peter quotes Psalms 34:8 Septuagint. "Your thirst for this spiritual milk will be very strong, because you have already tasted the Lord's kindness in it!" Compare Hebrews 6:4-5...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 2:3 Christians will continue to long for the Word IF they HAVE TASTED THAT THE LORD IS GOOD, which they did in conversion (compare...
CHRISTIAN LIFE CALLS FOR THE PUTTING AWAY OF EVILS _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE Jewish Christians addressed in this epistle are thought of as “born again” into the Christian faith and life. Th...
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....
Hebrews 6:5; Hebrews 6:6; Psalms 24:8; Psalms 63:5; Psalms 9:10;...
Ye have tasted [ε γ ε υ σ α σ θ ε]. Aorist tense. More literally, ye tasted. "A taste excites the appetite" (Bengel). Compare long for, ver. 2, and Psalms 34:8. Gracious [χ ρ η σ τ ο ς]. Actively beni...
Since ye have tasted — Sweetly and experimentally known....
In these words our apostle declares the condition whereon our profiting, growing, and thriving, by the word, doth depend, namely, upon our tasting and experiencing its power, as it is the great instru...