Christ, the innocent and guiltless, died as a condemned criminal in the stead of the wicked and guilty. Now the parallel does not merely consist in the fact that both “suffer” or are put to death. To purely spiritual realities it becomes alive in a manner which was impossible while it was united to the flesh. But quickened - Made alive - ζοωποιηθεὶς zoōpoiētheisThis does not mean “kept alive,” but “made alive; recalled to life; reanimated.” The word is never used in the sense of maintained alive, or preserved alive. See Romans 1:2; “Made of the seed of David according to the flesh.” John 1:14; “and the Word was made flesh.” 1 Timothy 3:16; “God was manifest in the flesh.” 1 John 4:2; “every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God.” 2 John 1:7; “who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.” Cf. Bibliography"Commentary on 1 Peter 3:18". The preposition υπερ, here rendered for, is used to represent a bending over one to protect, defend, and avert injury. 1 Peter 2:22, etc.) The theory (1) would thus require that His descent to the spirits in prison should be after His resurrection! [29] Albert Barnes, Barnes' Notes on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1953), p. 176. BibliographyBurkitt, William. BibliographyGill, John. Some have concluded from this passage that there is an immortal soul, that people have a second chance of salvation after death, and/or that Jesus descended into hell and came up again. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/dun/1-peter-3.html. (m) As touching his manhood, for his body was dead, and his soul felt the sorrows of death. 1 Peter 2:21) places the sufferings which the Christians have to bear, as ἀγαθοποιοῦντες, side by side with the sufferings of Christ, περὶ ἁμαρτιῶν, so that καί must be taken as referring not to ἔπαθε [ ἀπέθανε] only (as is done by most commentators, among them de Wette), but, as the position of the words ( περὶ ἁμαρτ. 1851. Schott explains—somewhat ambiguously—the datives “as general more precise adverbial definitions,” which state “what is of determinative importance in both facts,” and “the nature of the actual condition produced by them.”. He is both the example and the guarantee of our resurrection! Compare 1 Peter 2:21 : there His suffering was made an example to us; here, a proof of the blessedness of suffering for well doing. They were spirits eternal and immortal wi.o transgressed the line of demarcation between men and angels and disobeyed the law that spiritual beings do not marry and beget children like men. 21:2,4 , where "paradise" and the "third heaven" correspond. These words are brought in as a strong argument, why Christians that suffer wrongfully should bear it patiently; it was our Saviour's own case; he that had perfect innocency and unspotted righteousness, suffered in the severest manner for us that were unrighteous, that he might reconcile us to God, being put to death in the flesh, that is, in our human anture, but quickened by the Spirit, or raised to life again by the power of his godhead; it doth therefore well become all his followers cheerfully to undergo all manner of sufferings for him, which they meet with in their duty to him. Matthew 26:41; Romans 1:3-4; 1 Timothy 3:16; 1 Corinthians 5:5). https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/acc/1-peter-3.html. Answer: As with any single verse or passage, we discern what it teaches by first filtering it through what we know the Bible teaches on the subject at hand. God already loved humanity before the atonement was even possible. 1 Peter 3:18 18 For Christ also m suffered 2 n once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, o that he might bring us to God, being put to death p in the flesh but made alive q in the spirit, and is adopted by W.H. As to put to death, there is no difficulty. Yet it seems that he did this personally or directly, and not by the influences of the Holy Spirit, for it is said that “he went and preached.” The reference, therefore, cannot be to the Holy Spirit, and the fair conclusion is that it refers to his divine nature. He ceases to live, in that that, which is to His Personality the medium of action, falls under death; and He begins again to live, in that He receives back this same for a medium of His action again. This verse is an encouragement to Peter"s readers that even though Jesus died because He remained committed to God"s will, He experienced resurrection. Peter presents the ark of Noah’s day as the type of Christ’s suffering on the cross. 1 * Likewise, you wives should be subordinate to your husbands so that, even if some disobey the word, they may be won over without a word by their wives’ conduct 2 when they observe your reverent and chaste behavior. About Donate. This analogy is used, however, in support of the previous statement as to its being a better thing to suffer for good than for evil. (a)as we have seen, the reference in the former clause is to his human nature, including all that pertained to him as a man, body and soul; The absence of the article usually stresses the quality of the noun. his own Godhead, John 2:19 John 10:17,18. [26] Stephen W. Paine, Wycliffe Bible Commentary, New Testament (Chicago: Moody Press, 1971), p. 977. ]; and to effect this reconciliation was the very end for which he laid down his life [Note: Ephesians 2:16.]. nor that of simply reconciling us to God, but (as it is rightly understood by Huther, etc.) On any other supposition than this, the whole Mosaic ritual was absurd, and the writings of the New Testament are altogether calculated to deceive us.]. The particular good which Christ set before Him as the object of His suffering or dying was the bringing us to God; by which is meant introducing us to God, giving us admission, or the right of direct access, to God. This, surely, was most blessed suffering in well doing; and his followers may well take courage to suffer patiently in his cause. The weakness of this view is that it is redundant. Compare Robinson‘s Lexicon on the word Πνεῦμα PneumaC. Also “went” seems to mean a personal going, as in 1 Peter 3:22, not merely in spirit. This influence is moral, not physical; an influence accompanying the truth, not the exertion of mere physical power. "Commentary on 1 Peter 3:18". "Abbott's Illustrated New Testament". Wisely therefore does Hauber refer the burial of our Redeemer in some way to His exaltation, in the Contemplations about the Burial of Jesus Christ, p. 8. But if this be so, then the expression “in the flesh” refers to him as a man, and means, that so far as his human nature was concerned, he died. That he might bring us to God; i.e. ]:” the iniquities of all the human race were laid upon him [Note: Isaiah 53:6. But quickened by the Spirit - That very dead body revived by the power of his Divinity. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/srn/1-peter-3.html. We could resist the argument which a father, a mother, or a sister would use to reclaim us from a course of sin; but if we perceive that our conduct involves them in suffering, that fact has a power over us which no mere argument could have. Then His preaching had little success; now that He is gone to heaven (1 Peter 3:22) the Spirit's power in Him is infinite, owing to the resurrection. Quickened; made alive again; raised from the dead. See also Passow, and Robinson, Lexicon. Romans 5:6 : ὑπέρ, equivalent to, in commodum, is not in itself, indeed, equal to ἀντί; but the contrast here drawn between δίκαιος and ἀδίκων suggests that in the general relation, the more special one of substitution is implied (Weiss, p. 261); comp. Being put to death in the flesh - As a man; in his human nature. and both A.V. Weiss maintains, without sufficient reason (p. 260), that the word here points to the idea of the Christians’ priesthood (chap. Christ - the Anointed Holy One of God: the Holy suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust. So the result of Christ‘s death is His drawing men to Him; spiritually now, in our having access into the Holiest, opened by Christ‘s ascension; literally hereafter. Bengel: vivificatio ex antitheto ad mortificationem resolvi debet. 1 Peter 3:19-20. It is a subject to be begun in this life, but never to be finished to all eternity. The plain and necessary meaning of quickened is, that something pertaining to our Lord, which had once lived, was restored to life, or that something that had never lived was brought into being and connected with him. 1865-1868. BibliographyConstable, Thomas. The Greek omits the article. If his soul had been exempt from whatever there is involved in death in relation to the spirit, it is unaccountable that there is no hint on this point in the sacred narrative. That he might bring us to God.—Or, better, bring you; though it cannot be stated peremptorily in this case that such is the reading. BibliographySimeon, Charles. “Bring us,” moreover, by the same steps of humiliation and exaltation through which He Himself passed. He assumes that all suffering for adhering to the gospel is the result of well-doing; and for an encouragement in their trials, he refers them to the example of Christ, the highest instance that ever was, or ever will be, both of well-doing, and of suffering on account of it. Now, if we could accept the translation in the English Bible, “by the Spirit,” it would be pretty obvious to accept (1); and we should point to such passages as Romans 1:4; Romans 8:11, to show that the resurrection of Christ was due to the action of the Holy Ghost. For some time, this passage puzzled me as well. On the meaning of the word “flesh” in the New Testament, see the notes at Romans 1:3. ‘died for sins’-For the sins of others (John 1:29; Isaiah 53:6; Isaiah 53:8; Isaiah 53:11). sarkiwhere the article also is lacking. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/hac/1-peter-3.html. Hofmann’s application of it to the whole “statement here with respect to Christ” is open to objection, from the fact that in what follows there are elements introduced which go too far beyond the comparison here instituted. Compare also Romans 1:4. They were of the unique order which (as the ‘once’ implies) neither required nor admitted repetition. 18 For Christ also (A)suffered[a](B)once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, (C)that he might bring us to God, being put to death (D)in the flesh but made alive (E)in the spirit,19 in which[b]he went and (F)proclaimed[c]to the spirits in prison,20 because[d]they formerly did not obey, (G)when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, (H)while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, (I)eight … No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. As God-man he was dead; and, though his human soul still lived in union with his divine nature, while held in the bonds of death he was powerless to apply the benefits of his dying. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/scn/1-peter-3.html. This was intended to declare, that from henceforth all might have the freest and most intimate access to God [Note: Ephesians 2:13; Ephesians 2:18.]. As He suffered, "the Just," so we ought willingly suffer "for righteousness' sake" (1 Peter 3:12; 1 Peter 3:14; 1 Peter 3:17). "flesh" as describing Jesus" pre-resurrection condition (following the Incarnation) and "spirit" as referring to His post-resurrection condition. Verse 12 ‘Dear Christian friends’. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/cgt/1-peter-3.html. Isaiah 53:11; Matthew 27:19; Luke 23:47; Romans 5:6-10; 1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:29; 1 John 3:7). σαρκὶ … πνεύματι; this antithesis occurs frequently in the N. T.; with reference to the person of Christ, besides in this passage, in Romans 1:3 : κατὰ σάρκα … κατὰ πνεῦμα ἁγιωσύνης, and 1 Timothy 3:16 : ἐν σαρκὶ … ἐν πνεύματι (cf. We can in fact compare for this whole process the credal hymn cited by Paul in 1 Timothy 3:16. (19) An argument taken by comparison: Christ the just, suffered for us that are unjust and shall it grieve us who are unjust, to suffer for the cause of Christ. BibliographyJamieson, Robert, D.D. "For" connects 1 Peter 3:18-22 with13-17 , but "Christ also" recalls and resumes the example of Jesus Christ that Peter cited in 1 Peter 2:21-25. The example of Christ should stir us to patient endurance. Jesus died and suffered ONCE. The Son of God, having taken into union with himself, that holy portion of our nature, Hebrews 2:16, which contained in it the seed of holiness, for every individual member of his mystical body, constituting the Church; and having offered himself an offering for sin by his death on the cross, he not only raised himself from the dead, by his own quickening power, but, at the same time, raised and exalted this holy portion of our nature, his own personal body, to the possession of all divine perfections. 14. with the text, and Hebrews 13:12-13 and Acts 5:41.]! https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ebc/1-peter-3.html. Romans 6:10; Hebrews 7:27; Hebrews 9:28). Their supernatural existence is seen as in contrast with the supernatural spiritual life that He has received. St. Paul’s application of the Passage of the Red Sea, 1 Corinthians 10:1 f.). to those wicked men who lived in the days of Noe) to exhort them to repentance. Question: "Does 1 Peter 3:21 teach that baptism is necessary for salvation?" quickened by the Spirit — The oldest manuscripts omit the Greek article. . At last Enoch was sent to pronounce the sentence of condemnation upon these watchers, who in terror besought him to present a petition to God on their behalf. "Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers". "John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible". That he might bring us to God - That his death might be the means of reconciling sinners to God. Peter loves and cares about the peopleto whom he is writing. Thus, if it were said of a man that he was deprived of his rights as a father, it would be implied that in, other respects he was not deprived of his rights; and this would be especially true if it were added that he continued to enjoy his rights as a neighbor, or as holding an office under the government. In comes a friend who invites him (the young man not Jesus) to a party. "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". 1 Peter 4:6, Peter closely connects together the path or progress of Christ and the faithful (by which path he himself also was following his Lord, according to His prediction, John 13:36), intertwining therewith the unbelief and punishment of the many.— τῷ θεῷ, to God) who willed it. "Calvin's Commentary on the Bible". "Commentary on 1 Peter 3:18". All are now made priests unto God [Note: Revelation 1:6. The word “for” (3:18) shows that Peter is explaining what preceded, namely, that we may suffer for doing what is right as a means of bearing witness. The absence of the articles suggests a special meaning of "flesh" and "spirit." Thus, he was an example to those who suffered for well-doing.That he might bring us to God - That his death might be the means of reconciling sinners to God. Because also Christ died once for sins, a righteous one for unrighteous ones, in order that he might bring us to God. Jubilees v.) are as follows: the angels who lusted after the daughters of men descended in the days of Jared as his name (Descent) shows. But here let us beware, and proceed cautiously. Instead of ‘bring us to God’ (which is accepted by the Revised Version and most critics), ‘bring you to God’ is adopted by Westcott and Hort. "Hebrews 9:26); (2) Christ's death (Hebrews 9:28); (3) the deliverance to mankind of the faith (Jude 1:1:3); (4) the offering of Christ's blood in heaven (Hebrews 9:12,26); (5) the appointment to die (Hebrews 9:27); (6) God's shaking the earth and the heavens so as to remove them (Hebrews 12:27); and (7) the suffering of Christ for sins (1 Peter 3:18). (193) This does not preclude the possibility of His sufferings having had a significance different from what theirs can have. "Scofield Reference Notes on 1 Peter 3:18". 336, says, “It is the same who dies and the same who is again made alive, both times the whole Man Jesus, in body and soul. Thirdly. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ice/1-peter-3.html. 1. Copyright StatementThe Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.a. Compare the Romans 5:6 note; 2 Corinthians 5:21 note; Hebrews 9:28 note. BibliographyVincent, Marvin R. DD. Oh! "Commentary on 1 Peter 3:18". ‘having been put to death in the flesh’-Jesus really died on the cross. The phrase "having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit" has received several different interpretations.
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