Be multiplied (plhqunqeih). First aorist passive optative of plhqunw in a wish for the future (volitive use) as in 1?Peter 1:2 ; Jude 1:2 . In the ...
Book Introduction - 1?Peter Read first chapter of 1?Peter WRITER: The Apostle Peter ( 1?Peter 1:1 ) DATE: Probably A.D. 60. That Babylon refers to the...
Having gone (poreuqei). First aorist (deponent) participle (not periphrastic) of poreuomai. Being made subject (upotagentwn). Second aorist passive p...
Overview - 1?Peter 3 1?He teaches the duty of wives and husbands to each other; 8?exhorting all men to unity and love; 14?and to suffer persecution. ...
Love of the brethren (thn piladelpian). See 1?Peter 1:22 . Love (thn agaphn). By deliberate choice ( Matthew 5:44 ). Love for Christ as the crown of...
I ... thou (egw ... su). Jesus repeats the pronouns used by Peter in similar contrast. Not now (ouk arti). Just now arti means ( 1 Peter 9:19 1 Pete...
To him (autwi). To God (dative case). Note krato in the doxology as in 1?Timothy 6:16 and briefer than the doxology in 1?Peter 4:11 , to Christ. ...
Book Introduction - 2?Peter Read first chapter of 2?Peter WRITER: The Apostle Peter ( 2?Peter 1:1 ) DATE: Probably A.D. 66 THEME: Second Peter and Sec...
And I John (Kagw Iwannh). Here John the Seer is the speaker. He had already given his name ( 2 Peter 1:1 2 Peter 1:4 2 Peter 1:9 ). Here he claims ...
And he saith unto me (kai legei moi). The angel resumes as in 2?Peter 19:9 . Seal not up (mh spragish). Prohibition with mh and the ingressive first...
Who did no sin (o amartian ouk epoihsen). Quotation from Isaiah 53:9 . He has already expressed the sinlessness of Christ in 1?Peter 1:19 . The nex...
Better (kreitton). Comparative of kratu as in 2?Peter 2:21 ; Hebrews 1:4 . Patient endurance not only silences calumny (verse 1?Peter 3:16 ), is C...