1 Peter 2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:18

Servants, be subject - See the notes on Ephesians 6:5 ; Colossians 3:22 ; (note); and Titus 2:9 ; (note). With all fear - With all submission and reverence. The good and gentle - Those who are ever just in their commands, never requiring more work than is necessary or proper, and always allowing sufficient food and sufficient time. The froward - Σκολιοις· The crooked, perverse, unreasonable morose, and austere. Your time belongs to your master; obey him in every thing... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:19

For this is thankworthy - If, in a conscientious discharge of your duty, you suffer evil, this is in the sight of God thankworthy, pleasing, and proper; it shows that you prefer his authority to your own ease, peace, and emolument; it shows also, as Dr. Macknight has well observed, that they considered their obligation to relative duties not to depend on the character of the person to whom they were to be performed, nor on their performing the duties they owed to their servants, but on the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:20

For what glory is it - It appears from this that the poor Christians, and especially those who had been converted to Christianity while in a state of slavery, were often grievously abused, they were buffeted because they were Christians, and because they would not join with their masters in idolatrous worship. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:21

Hereunto were ye called - Ye were called to a state of suffering when ye were called to be Christians; for the world cannot endure the yoke of Christ, and they that will live godly in Christ must suffer persecution; they will meet with it in one form or other. Christ also suffered for us - And left us the example of his meekness and gentleness; for when he was reviled, he reviled not again. Ye cannot expect to fare better than your master; imitate his example, and his Spirit shall... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:22

Who did no sin - He suffered, but not on account of any evil he had either done or said. In deed and word he was immaculate, and yet he was exposed to suffering; expect the same, and when it comes bear it in the same spirit. It is very likely that the apostle mentions guile, because those who do wrong generally strive to screen themselves by prevarication and lies. These words appear to be a quotation from Isaiah 53:9 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:23

But committed himself - Though he could have inflicted any kind of punishment on his persecutors, yet to give us, in this respect also, an example that we should follow his steps, he committed his cause to him who is the righteous Judge. To avoid evil tempers, and the uneasiness and danger of avenging ourselves, it is a great advantage in all such cases to be able to refer our cause to God, and to be assured that the Judge of all the earth will do right. The Vulgate, one copy of the Itala,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:24

Who his own self - Not another in his place, as some anciently supposed, because they thought it impossible that the Christ should suffer. Bare our sins in his own body - Bore the punishment due to our sins. In no other sense could Christ bear them. To say that they were so imputed to him as if they had been his own, and that the Father beheld him as blackened with imputed sin, is monstrous, if not blasphemous. That we, being dead to sins - Ἱνα ταις ἁμαρτιαις απογενομενοι· That... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:25

For ye were as sheep going astray - Formerly ye were not in a better moral condition than your oppressors; ye were like stray sheep, in the wilderness of ignorance and sin, till Christ, the true and merciful Shepherd, called you back from your wanderings, by sending you the Gospel of his grace. Bishop of your souls - Unless we consider the word bishop as a corruption of the word επισκοπος episcopos , and that this literally signifies an overseer, an inspector, or one that has the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:1

Verse 1 After having taught the faithful that they had been regenerated by the word of God, he now exhorts them to lead a life corresponding with their birth. For if we live in the Spirit, we ought also to walk in the Spirit, as Paul says. (Galatians 5:25.) It is not, then, sufficient for us to have been once called by the Lord, except we live as new creatures. This is the meaning. But as to the words, the Apostle continues the same metaphor. For as we have been born again, he requires from us... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:2

Verse 2 2.The sincere milk of the word This passage is commonly explained according to the rendering of Erasmus, “Milk not for the body but for the soul;” as though the Apostle reminded us by this expression that he spoke metaphorically. I rather think that this passage agrees with that saying of Paul, “Be ye not children in understanding, but in malice.” (1 Corinthians 14:20.) That no one might think that infancy, void of understanding and full of fatuity, was commended by him, he in due... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:19

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:25

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 2:2

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