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The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. Peter

Lumby, J. Rawson (Joseph Rawson), 1831-1895; Nicoll, W. Robertson (William Robertson), Sir, 1851-1923 [Editor]· 9 chapters· 93,640 words

This is a very small amount of early evidence, and among the more voluminous writers of the first three centuries we find no mention of the Epistle. We cannot, therefore, be surprised that by Eusebius it is classed among the works of less acceptance. But the same fate befell l...

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1. iii. 5-7, and can hardly have been written without a knowledge of the

This is a very small amount of early evidence, and among the more voluminous writers of the first three centuries we find no mention of the Epistle. We cannot, therefore, be sur...

2. iii. 19 was given as evidence for the descent into hell in Article

III., but in the later form (the thirty-nine of 1563) the allusion to St. Peter's words was omitted. No doubt the divines of that time wished to do away with all that might be u...

3. xxiv. 1, 2) and said that not one stone of it should be left upon

another. Henceforth He will have other temples in the hearts of those who worship Him in spirit and in truth. These are now the house of God. With them He exercises judgement co...

4. lxix. 6); and one whose name is a synonym for suffering tells us, "The

Lord is good unto them that wait for Him" (Lam. iii. 25). To such trust St. Peter here exhorts, bidding specially them that suffer to rest on the Lord. Though they be punished i...

5. ix. 31) to have conversed with Moses and Elias of His decease

(ἔξοδος) which He should accomplish at Jerusalem. The word is rare in this sense, being commonly used, as in Heb. xi. 22, of the _departing_ of the children of Israel from Egypt...

6. iii. 22) spoken of the fact of Christ's ascension; he is now about to

describe what was seen on the holy mount. These things are facts and verities, and not fables. But yet there was more revealed in them than either eye could grasp, or tongue cou...

7. xxvi. 11), while the other is one which would impress the Jewish mind

with a feeling of utter abomination. The dogs of the East are the pariahs of the animal world, while everything pertaining to swine was detestable in the eyes of the Israelite....

8. v. 2), from which passage the words "in the night" have found their

way into the text of St. Peter, to which, as the Revised Version indicates, they do not belong. And in the Epistle to the Hebrews the Apostle has defined the preparation which,...

9. xxvii. 26, 29) in the description of the wreck at Melita, when the

sailors feared lest they should be cast ashore on rocky ground. It is against a moral peril of even more terrible character that St. Peter warns the Churches; and the contrast i...