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Exposition of 1 Peter 3:18-20.
Excerpt- The connection and scope is evident. The apostle is exhorting the believers to a patient life of suffering so as to fill with shame those who vented their spite on their good behavior in Christ. Who could gainsay that it was better, did the will of God so will, to suffer while doing well than doing ill; and this because Christ also suffered (but He suffered once, once for all) for sins? This should be enough: we should suffer not for sins, but only for righteousness or for Christ's name sake. It was His to suffer for us, this once and forever, just for unjust persons (for such were we), that He might bring us to God. It is ours to suffer at times especially, but in principle always while in this present evil world. The καί connects Christ and us as suffering, but the contrast is as striking as it is morally suggestive. To understand with some περὶ ἁμαρτιῶν as a point of comparison between Him and us under such a junction is to miss the reasoning utterly, not to speak of failure in reverence towards the Savior in that work which stands far above all comparison. This ought to have been too plain to need further reproof from δίκαιος ὑπὲρ ἀδίκων, where His solitary and unapproachable place is set out. It was His alone thus to bring us near to God. The participles that follow tell us how this was done: “Put to death in flesh but made alive in [the] Spirit.”
Table of Contents
1. Christ's Preaching to the Spirits in Prison: Part 1
2. Christ's Preaching to the Spirits in Prison: Part 2
3. Christ's Preaching to the Spirits in Prison: Part 3
4. Christ's Preaching to the Spirits in Prison: Part 4
5. Christ's Preaching to the Spirits in Prison: Part 5
6. Christ's Preaching to the Spirits in Prison: Part 6
7. Christ's Preaching to the Spirits in Prison: Part 7
8. Christ's Preaching to the Spirits in Prison: Part 8
9. Christ's Preaching to the Spirits in Prison: Part 9
10. Christ's Preaching to the Spirits in Prison: Part 10