5. 6. 9. lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idola- 4. tries, 580, wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same 7. in the flesh, 586; but live according to God in the spirit, 587. But the end of all 8. things is at hand, 598; be ye therefore sober, 592; and watch unto prayer, 595; and above all things have fervent charity among yourselves, 603; for charity shall cover the multitude of sins, 608. Use hospitality one to another without grudg- 10. ing, 614. As every one hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to 11. another, 620; as good stewards of the manifold grace of God, 625. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability that God giveth, 621; that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, 626; to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever, Amen, 626. 12. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as if some strange thing happened unto you, 629; but rejoice inasmuch as ye are par- also with exceeding joy, 635. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, 637; happy are ye, 638; for the spirit of God and of glory resteth upon you, 638; on 15. their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified, 638. But let none 13. that judgment must begin at the house of God, 646; and if it first begin at us, what 19. wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God, 648; commit the keep- of their souls to him, 648; in well-doing, 650; as unto a faithful Creator, 648. 5. 8. 1. The elders which are among you, 655; I exhort, who am also an elder, 675; and a 6. proud, 706; and giveth grace to the humble, 708. Humble yourselves, 719; there- 7. fore, under the mighty hand of God, 715; that he may exalt you in due time, 723; casting all your care upon him, 729; for he careth for you, 733. Be sober, 754.; 9. 748; walketh about, 747; seeking whom he may devour, 749; whom resist, 751; steadfast in the faith, 757; knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in 10. your brethren that are in the world, 759. But the God of all grace, 768; who have suffered a while, 773; make you perfect, 763; stablish, 764; strengthen, 764; .12. settle you, 765; to him be glory and dominion forever and ever, Amen, 774. By 13. of God, 779; wherein ye stand, 781. The church that is in Babylon saluteth 14. you, and so doth Marcus, my son, 788. Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity, 788. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus, 790. Amen, 791. A TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE APOSTLE PETER. I. 1. PETER, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elected sojourners of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and 2. Bithynia-elected according to the fore-appointment of God the Father, by a spiritual separation in order to obedience," and being sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. 3. 4 6 1 5 3 7 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of his mercy, has anew made us his children; * so as to give us a living hope through 4. the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead; so as to make us heirs of an inheritance, incorruptible, undefiled, and un5. fading, secured in heaven for you, who are preserved by the power of God through faith, till the salvation prepared to 6. be revealed in the last time; in which time 1o you shall rejoice," who now for a short season (since it is needful), are 7. sorrowful amid manifold trials, that the proof of your faith " may be found" much more valuable than that of gold (which, 9 8 12 10 19 1 Beza's theology seems to have mastered his scholarship, when he rendered ev as =¿is by ad, and is as did by per. E. α. π. seems-in a state of spiritual separation, spiritually separated. = 2 Obedience of faith, of the truth, verse 22. Rom. i. 5; xvi. 26; vi. 16, 17. Acts vi. 7. * Ut obediant, et Jesu Christi sanguine conspergantur.-CASTALIO. 4 Ch. i. 23. James i. 18. John iii. 3, &c. Fait renaitre, autrement, regenerez.BEAUSOBRE. 5 Amat Petrus Epitheton vivus.—BENGEL. 6 Some MSS. of good note read hμãs, us. 7 Guarded. Gal. iii. 23. 8 Eis, till. Acts iv. 3. Phil. i. 10. Gal. iii. 13, 24. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We have a parallel phrase, 2 Peter ii. 4, τnpovμévovs eis kpíow. 9 By being bestowed. 10 cannot grammatically refer to owrnpíav. Even although it did, as that salvation is future, the rejoicing in it must be future too. HARWOOD takes this view of it. 11 " In quo exultabitis. VULGATE. 12 Aokiμov is not doкyń, Rom. v. 3; the last is the result of the first; both here and James i. 3, it seems-dokiμaoía. 13 Explorata vestra fides.-CASTALIO. Your faith once tried.--COVERDALE. MATTHEWS. 14 STEIGER, i. 136, 137. KNATCHBULL, 292. 3 2 even though proved by fire, perisheth) resulting in' praise, and honor, and glory, at the revelation of Jesus Christ; 8. whom, though you have not seen him, you love; in whom though now not looking on him but believing in him, you shall 9. rejoice with an unspeakable and triumphant joy, receiving 10. the end of your faith, soul-salvation; respecting which salvation, prophets who uttered predictions concerning this grace 11. towards you, made inquiry and diligent search, examining what, and what kind, of season, the Spirit of Christ in them did signify, when testifying beforehand of the sufferings in 12. reference to Christ, and the succeeding glories; to whom it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering those things, which have now been declared to you by those who, inspired by the Holy Spirit sent down from Heaven, have proclaimed to you the good news; into which things angels earnestly inquire." 13. 5 8 9 4 10 Seeing these things are so, girding up the loins of your mind,' being watchful, hope steadfastly for this grace, which is to be brought to you in the revelation" of Jesus Christ. 14. As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves by your 15. former propensities in your state of ignorance, but in imita tion of the holy one, who has called you," be you also holy in 16. your whole behavior: because it is written, 'Be ye holy, for 17. I am holy.' And since you call Father,13 Him who judges the work of every man without respect of persons, pass the time 18. of your sojourning in reverence of him; knowing that you have been ransomed from your foolish" hereditary" course 19. of behavior, not by corruptible things-silver or gold-but by precious blood, as of a lamb, perfect, and spotless, the blood 20. of Christ; " fore-appointed, indeed, before the foundation of 17 1 ROBINSON. Eis. 3. a. 16 2 Exultabitis lætitia inenarrabili et glorificata.--VULGATE. 3 Hoc perinde valet ac si diceretur: "salus æterna." Est enim tacita comparatio vitæ mortalis et caducæ quæ ad corpus pertinet. 1 Cor. v. 5. 'Iva тó πveñμa owłŋ.—CALVIN. The period and the circumstances. Quo et quali tempore.-JASPIS. In relation to whom, and what time.-PURVER. Quel tems, et quelle conjuncture.-BEAUSOBRE. 5 Or the sufferings until Christ, that is, the manifold trials, till the revelation of Jesus Christ, v. 7. 6 James i. 25. 7 Lumbos succingimus ad iter, ad opus, ad bella, ad ministerium.-C. A. LAPIDE. Prepared, ready for work or warfare, for toil or travel. 8 Vigilance, not moderation, seems the idea here. Awake to all events. 9 Τελείως ἐλπίσατε=κατέχετε τὴν ἐλπίδα τελείαν ; or, as the Apostle to the Hebrews has it, ch. iii. 6. Perfecte Sperate.—VULGATE. 10 Or perseveringly, reλɛíws. 11 At his second coming, when He shall be unveiled, manifested to be what he is. By the revelation.-HAMMOND. By the declaring.-COVERDALE. MATTHEWS. CRANThe figures here seem borrowed from Luke xii. 35, &c. MER. Literally "according to." Rom. xv. 5. Karà Xploròv 'Inoovv, rendered in the margin "after the example of." Ad exemplum illius sancti qui vocavit vos.-ERAS. SCHMID. 13 Call on the Father. 14 Eph. iv. 17. 15 Handed down from father to son. 16 's-ut. ætiologia rou precioso.-BENGEL. 17 For the rendering of this verse, which seems to me to bring out the apostle's precise sense very clearly and forcibly, I am indebted to my learned and ingenious colleague and much esteemed friend, the Rev. Dr. EADIE. the world, but manifested in these last times, on account1 21. of you, who through him believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.2 22. 3 4 Having purified your souls by the obedience of the truth, through the Spirit, so as sincerely from a pure heart, to love 23. the brethren, love one another intensely, being anew made the children of God, not of a perishable race, but of an imperishable, through the living word of God, which endureth forever; 24. for "all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of it as the flower 25. of grass; the grass withereth, and its flower falleth off, but the word of the Lord endureth forever." Now the gospel which has been proclaimed to you is this word. II. 1. 7 8 6 5 10 Laying aside, then, all malice, and all deceit, and simula2. tions, and envyings, and all evil-speakings, like new-born babes, desire the unadulterated spiritual milk, that by it you 3. may grow unto salvation; seeing you have tasted the good4. ness of the Lord; coming to whom, the living stone, by men 5. disapproved, but by God chosen and honored, even you as living stones are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices well-pleasing to God, by Jesus 6. Christ; according to what is contained in the Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Sion, a corner stone, chosen, honored; and 7. he that believeth on him shall not be ashamed." To you then who believe there is honor," but to them who disbelieve, there is dishonor; the stone which the builders disallowed, has 8. become the principal corner-stone, and a stumbling stone, and a rock of offence, on which they who believe not the word 9. stumble, to which also they were appointed. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a 1 On behalf of you. 2 SYMONDS. 3 ▲là πνεúμatos. The evidence of the genuineness of this clause is so deficient, that MILL, BENGEL, GRIESBACH, and LACHMANN, would omit it. If genuine, its meaning is doubtful. It may qualify ύπακοῇ=πνευματικῇ. Zлорà, genus. proles. SCAPULA refers to Sophocles and Euripides, in support of this sense. The cognate word σrépμa is often used in this way. John vii. 42; viii. 33, 37. Gal. iii. 16, 19, et al. If λóyos Ocou be merely exegetical, would not the same preposition have been connected with it as with the word of which it is the interpretation? 5 'Aurns is the preferable reading. 6 Rationale sine dolo lac.-VULGATE. That reasonable milk that is without corruption.—COVERDALE. MATTHEWS. The milk not of the body, but of the soul, which is without deceit.-CRANMER. The reasonable milk of the word, which is without deceit BISHOP'S BIBLE. The rational pure milk.-HAMMOND. Le lait spirituel, et tout pur.-Mons Version. Aoyɩkóv, i. q. πVEνμATIKOV. V. 5.-VATER. "Illis temporibus rex Messias apparebit synagogæ Israeliticæ ad quem Israelitæ sic dicent: veni, esto frater noster, et proficiscamur Hierosolyma et sugemus tecum gustum legis, quemadmodum infans übera matris suæ sugit. TARGUM in Cant. viii. 1. Apud WETSTEIN. 7 Els owτnpiáv is found in a number of the most ancient Codd., and is admitted into the text by the most distinguished critical editors of the New Testament. 8 Quia.-CARPZOV. Et.-LACHMANN. 9 Psal. xxxiv. 8. 1o Parietes spirituales quia homines pii sunt præcipuum templum.-R. ALSCHECH in Hag. ii. 10. Ap. WETSTEIN. Vobis igitur honor credentibus.-VULGATE. peculiar possession to God, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of Darkness into his 10. marvellous light; who once were not a people, but now are the people of God; who once were not the objects of his mercy, but now are the objects of his mercy. 11. Beloved, I exhort you, as foreigners and sojourners, to keep 12. yourselves from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul, conducting yourselves honorably among the heathen, that with regard to that in which they speak evil of you as evil-doers, they may, from your good works,' having observed them, glorify 13. God in the day of visitation. Submit yourselves therefore, from a regard to the Lord, to every institution of man,' for the punishment of evil-doers, and the praise of those who do 14. well; whether it be king as supreme, or governors as commis15. sioned by him; for thus is it the will of God, that doing well 16. you muzzle the ignorance of foolish men. As free men, yet not using your liberty as a cloak of wickedness, but as the ser17. vants of God, honor all men, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the King.* 3 18. Servants, submit yourselves, with all reverence, to your 6 masters, not only to the kind and gentle, but also to the per19. verse; for this is well pleasing, if any one who suffers unjust20. ly, from religious principle endure his grievances patiently; for what credit is it if, when you commit a fault, and are chastised, you endure patiently? but if suffering while acting prop21. erly, you patiently endure, this is well pleasing to God. For to this were you called; because even Christ suffered on our account, leaving us foot-prints that we should follow in his 22. steps, who committed no fault, and in whose mouth no deceit 23. was found; who, being reviled, did not revile in return, suffering did not threaten, but committed himself to the righteous 24. judge; who himself, in his own body, bore our sins to the cross, that we dying by sins might live by righteousness: by 25. whose weals' you are healed; for you were as straying sheep, but you have now returned to the shepherd, and overseer 1o of your souls. 8 7 10 III. 1. Likewise, you wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands; that if some of them are disbelievers in the doctrine, 1 Ex bonis operibus vos considerantes.-VULGATE. May revering you (¿ê from) by your good works.-HAMMOND. 2 Humanæ creaturæ.-VULGATE. Humanæ ordinationi.-BEZA. Creature of man.WICLIF. Humane creature.-RHEMISTS. HAMMOND. 3 A covering of, a pretext for. Use it neither for concealing nor for excusing wickedness. 4 The Roman emperor is termed ẞaoikeus by the Greek writers. POLYŒNI Strag. p. 1. HEROD. i 3. The usage of the Jews appears from John xiv. 15. Acts xvii. 7. 5 Cross, ill-conditioned, morose, wayward. Tyrants.—WICLIF. 6 WAKEFIELD. 1 John ii. 6. 7 Resigned himself.-SYMONDS. 8 Lit. Stake, Timber. 'Еπí. Robinson in verb. iii. 6. a and ß. • Mw2wy non est vulnus sed vibex, sive vestigium verberum aut flagellorum, 12nya μáσтiyos жоιεì μáλwπaç. Ecclus. xxviii 17.—RAPHELIUS. 10 Curatorem.-BEZA. CASTALIO. |