Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 Peter 5:3
Neither as being lords over [God's] (b) heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
(b) Which is the Christian people.
Neither as being lords over [God's] (b) heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
(b) Which is the Christian people.
1 PETER 5:3 mhdV w`j katakurieu,ontej tw/n klh,rwn avlla. tu,poi gino,menoi tou/ poimni,ou {A} Because of some unaccountable quirk in transmission, this verse is lacking in codex Vaticanus....
Verse 1 Peter 5:3. _NEITHER AS BEING LORDS OVER_ GOD'S _HERITAGE_] This is the voice of St. Peter in his _catholic_ epistle to the _catholic_ _Church_! According to him there are to be no lords over...
NEITHER AS BEING LORDS - Margin, “overruling.” The word here used (κατακυριεύω katakurieuō) is rendered “exercise dominion over,” in Matthew 20:25; exercise lordship over, in Mark 10:42; and overcam...
V. EXHORTATIONS CONCERNING SERVICE AND CONFLICT CHAPTER 5 _ 1. As to Christian service (1 Peter 5:1)_ 2. Conflict and victory (1 Peter 5:8) 3. The conclusion (1 Peter 5:12)...
The writer, himself a presbyter, gives wise and loving counsel to his fellow-presbyters and to their flocks. Sincerity, humility, and love are to mark all their intercourse, and continual subjection t...
So, then, as your fellow-elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as a sharer in the glory which is going to be revealed, I urge the elders who are among you, shepherd the flock of God which i...
THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH (1 Peter 5:1-4)...
NEITHER. Greek. _mede_, as above. BEING, &C. See Acts 19:16. HERITAGE. the heritages. Greek. _kleros,_ Plural. Compare Acts 1:17; Acts 1:25. " _God's_ " is supplied from...
_neither as being lords over God's heritage_ Better, NOT LORDING IT OVER THE HERITAGES. There is no word in the Greek answering to "God's," and it is not wanted to complete the sense. The word for "lo...
ΚΑΤΑΚΥΡΙΕΎΟΝΤΕΣ. The word is used in the LXX. in Jeremiah 3:14 of God as being master or husband of His people, but elsewhere of subduing a city, taking possession of a country, or of sin getting the...
1 Peter 5:1 to 1 Peter 5:1 Let me then address a special word of exhortation to those of you who are “elders” in the Church. I do not wish to dictate to you as an Apostle, but to plead with you as on...
ΚΑΤΑΚΥΡΙΕΎΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΚΑΤΑΚΥΡΙΕΎΩ (G2634) господствовать над кем-л., управлять, полностью контролировать. Предл. сочетание указывает на действие, неблагоприятное для объекта (МН, 316)...
OVER GOD'S HERITAGE,— There is nothing for _God's_ in the original; the word κληροι, seems here to denote those _distinct congregations_ of Christians, which _fell to the lot,_ as it were, of differen...
VI. EXHORTATIONS TO ELDERS 1 PETER 5:1-4 1 Peter 5:1 The elders therefore among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that...
Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. BEING LORDS, [ katakurieuontes (G2634)] - 'lording it' with despotic pride (2 Corinthians 1:24). GOD'S HERITAGE, [ to...
VERSE 3. NEITHER AS LORDS OVER GOD'S HERITAGE. In your service be not arrogant and despotic. Macknight _says:_ "This is a strong word, denoting tyranny, which the men of this world often exercise whe...
19 Who are these imprisoned spirits ? Are they not the same that Peter mentions in his second epistle (1Pe_2:4) who were thrust down to the gloomy caverns of Tartarus, and the messengers of Jude's epi...
5:3 your (a-6) Lit. 'the possessions.' What they are is wholly beside the mark. No doubt the saints were in his thoughts; but the character of the elders' conduct is what is in question. If there wer...
ENCOURAGEMENTS TO SHEPHERDS AND TO FLOCK. PROMISE OF GOD'S PROTECTION. FAREWELLS _B_. 1 Peter 5:1. 'To behave well in this trial you must preserve discipline. Let old and young, rulers and ruled, do...
BEING LORDS OVER] RV 'lording it over': cp. Luke 22:25. _God's_ HERITAGE] RV 'the charge allotted to you.' From the Gk. word' 'clergy' is derived. BEING ENSAMPLES] RV 'making yourselves,' etc....
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 5 ELDERS AND YOUNG MEN v1 So, I want to encourage the elders among you. I also am an elder. I actually saw Christ when he suffered. When he...
Some elders become proud and think that they are the boss. They are severe with people. They make rules for people to obey. Jesus was not like that. The way that he lived is a model for all Christians...
NEITHER AS BEING LORDS. — Rather, _nor yet as lording it._ The English version is somewhat too strict for the Greek and for the sense. There is a sense in which the heads of the Church are, and ought...
V. (1-11) FURTHER EXHORTATIONS SUGGESTED BY THE CRISIS. — The officers of the community are not to flinch from the duties imposed upon them, nor yet to perform them in any spirit of self-assertion. T...
CHAPTER 16 HOW TO TEND THE FLOCK 1 Peter 5:1 ST. PETER'S last lesson was full of consolation. He showed that it was from God's hand that judgments were sent upon His people to purify them and prepar...
SERVING ONE ANOTHER 1 Peter 5:1 According to these words Peter, though he stood at a distance, must have been an eyewitness of the Savior's death. He is careful to speak of the glory in the same brea...
Finally, the apostle proceeded to strengthen his brethren for conflict. The first matter dealt with was the general orderliness of the Church. He enjoined the elders that they care for the flock. Thei...
SHEPHERDS OVER THE FLOCK OF GOD In the New Testament church the name "elders," which literally means older, came to stand for the leaders of local congregations (Acts 11:29-30; Acts 14:23; Acts 15:2-3...
_Neither as domineering over the clergy. [2] This may not only signify over the inferior ministers, who were subject to the bishops or priests, but also over the particular flocks which fell to their...
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: (2) Feed the flock of God which is am...
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_Neither as being lords, _or, _as exercising dominion_. The preposition κατὰ in Greek is taken, for the most part, in a bad sense: then Peter here condemns unreasonable exercise of power, as the case...
The apostle returns to christian details. He exhorts the elders, himself an elder; for it appears that among the Jews this title was rather characteristic than official. (Compare 1 Peter 5:5.) He exho...
NEITHER AS BEING LORDS OVER GOD'S HERITAGE,.... Or "clergy"; meaning not ecclesiastical persons, as presbyters, and deacons, who are supposed to be under the government of bishops, though not to be go...
Neither as being lords over _God's_ heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. Ver. 3. _Neither as being lords_] About the year 1620 the clergy and laity of England set themselves against the pope's...
_Neither as being lords_, or _lording it, over God's heritage_ Behaving in a haughty, domineering manner, as though you had dominion over their consciences. From this prohibition it would seem that, i...
NEITHER AS BEING LORDS; exercising undue authority. GOD'S HERITAGE; his people. Deuteronomy 32:9 BEING ENSAMPLES; examples of piety, meekness, humility, and beneficence. The pope, in claiming and ex...
FINAL ADMONITIONS AND CONCLUDING GREETINGS. An exhortation to pastors:...
NEITHER AS BEING LORDS OVER GOD'S HERITAGE, BUT BEING ENSAMPLES TO THE FLOCK....
Consistently with Peter's subject of governmental order, he now address elders in v.1, and those younger in v.5. Proper balance in this relationship is always deeply important, for on either side fric...
BEING LORDS OVER: Or, overruling...
_ 1 Peter 5:3 ‘nor yet as lording it over those allotted to your charge, but proving to be examples to the flock.'_ ‘LORDING IT OVER' -While elders do have authority and must ‘rule' (1 Thessalonians 5...
1-4 The apostle Peter does not command, but exhorts. He does not claim power to rule over all pastors and churches. It was the peculiar honour of Peter and a few more, to be witnesses of Christ's suf...
NEITHER AS BEING LORDS; not exercising any such lordship or dominion over the people, as temporal lords and magistrates exercise over their subjects, MATTHEW 20:25,26, &c.; LUKE 22:25: compare 2 Co
Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus of the Lord advances, and the choirs[72]...
1 Peter 5:3 nor G3366 as G5613 over G2634 (G5723) entrusted G2819 but G235 being G1096 (G5740) examples...
‘Tend the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not of constraint, but willingly, according to the will of God; nor yet for base gain, but of a ready mind, neither as lording it o...
THE GRAND FINALE (1 PETER 5:1). As Peter comes to the close of his letter the thought of suffering followed by glory continues: · In 1 Peter 3:18 He had spoken of the sufferings of Christ which had...
1 Peter 5:3. NOR YET AS LORDING IT; or, _in the character of those who lord it._ The expression is again a very strong one. An uncommon compound form of the verb ‘to rule' is chosen, which conveys the...
We come now upon a brief series of injunctions, dealing with the spirit in which the members of Christ's Church should occupy their respective positions, and bear themselves toward each other. These c...
LORDING IT OVER (κατακυριευοντες). Present active participle of κατακυριευω, late compound (κατα, κυριος) as in Matthew 20:25.THE CHARGE ALLOTTED TO YOU (των κληρων). "The charges," "the lots" or...
1 Peter 5:1. _The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:_ Here again, as in the...
CONTENTS: Christian service in view of Christ's soon coming. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Peter, Satan, Silvanus, Marcus. CONCLUSION: Humility is a great preserver of peace and order in the church, givin...
1 Peter 5:1. _Who am also an elder._ See the note on Acts 20:28, and on Philippians 1:1. Let the bishops, says Jerome, know that they are greater than other presbyters, rather by custom than by virtue...
DO NOT TRY TO RULE. Church elders are not permitted to DOMINEER the flock of God! Compare what Jesus said _in_ Luke 22:25-26. GIVEN INTO YOUR CARE. THE FLOCK IS God's! The elders have been called to s...
_The elders which are among you I exhort._ ELDERS EXHORTED 1. In that he, an elder, exhorts them, elders, note that ministers are fittest to teach ministers and to judge of their actions. When we di...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 5:2 Elders (v. 1 Peter 5:1) must SHEPHERD THE FLOCK (compare John 21:
THE ATTITUDE OF HUMILITY _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE exhortations are still designed to meet the crisis in which the Churches were placed. In keeping together, preserving the Christian spiri...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 5:1 THE ELDERS WHICH ARE AMONG YOU I EXHORT. The Vatican and Alexandrine Manuscripts omit the article, and insert "therefore" (the Sinaitic gives both), reading, "Elders, therefo...
Now the elders [the overseers] which are among you I exhort, because I am also an elder [or an overseer, an older man], and I am a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and I'm also a partaker of the g...
1 Corinthians 11:11; 1 Corinthians 3:5; 1 Corinthians 3:9; 1 Peter 2:9;...
As lording it [κ α τ α κ υ ρ ι ε υ ο ν τ ε ς]. See Matthew 20; Matthew 25; Acts 19:16. Other words are used for the exercise of legitimate authority in the church; proistamai, to be over ...
Neither as lording over the heritage — Behaving in a haughty, domineering manner, as though you had dominion over their conscience. The word translated heritage, is, literally, the portions. There is...