2. This means that it does not decay or get worse with age. Also, Peter consistently refers to the floodwaters as the means of destruction of the ungodly (2 Pet. Noah's days are selected, as the ark and the destroying flood answer respectively to "baptism" and the coming destruction of unbelievers by fire. ‘during the construction of the ark’-1. Verse 20 clearly indicates to whom he made the announcement. Some of them rebelled against Him and were fallen from their position. . According to 1 Peter 3:19, Jesus “made proclamation” to these spirits in prison. These were the spirits. How can we get discouraged, when the Church in our generation is growing much faster than the results that Noah received. When once the longsuffering of God waited.—The word “once” has no business in the text, originating only in an ingenious but unnecessary guess of Erasmus. Thus, it makes sense that He would establish an orderly division of labor in His creation. It is applied to the ‘earnest expectation’ of the creation (Romans 8:19), the ‘waiting’ of those who have the first-fruits of the Spirit (Romans 8:23; Romans 8:25), the waiting for ‘the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ’ (1 Corinthians 1:7), or for ‘the hope of righteousness by faith’ (Galatians 5:5), the looking ‘for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ’ (Philippians 3:20). The Two Baptisms. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water. Occasionally, however (see above on ‘spirits’), it designates the departed. It is better to be one of the eight in the ark than of the many disobedient in the water. John Piper 2. The chief fallen angel is the devil or Satan. The story is literal. Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, … Jobes (1 Peter), citing Elliott, 1 Peter (2000, p. 669) offers this parallel. The reason given for the preaching is that they were disobedient. 1:4; 8:11). The passive voice may lend weight to this view (see discussion in Kistemaker, p. 140). —They disbelieved the preaching of Noah, and disobeyed his calls to repentance. Let us, however, see why it is that he mentions only the unbelieving; for he seems to say, that Christ in spirit appeared to those who formerly were unbelieving; but I understand him otherwise, that then the true servants of God were mixed together with the unbelieving, and were almost hidden on account of their number. 2:5; 3:6) – not the salvation of Noah and his family. Saved by ufater. Noah was saved by God’s grace (Genesis 6:8). We should thus translate it: ‘when of old they were disobedient, to wit, at the time when the long-suffering of God,’ etc., rather than (with the R. V., etc. Eight - seven (the sacred number) with ungodly Ham. In the former case the idea will be either that those few were saved by passing through the water, or that they were brought safely through water into the ark. We have evidence that this was a time of gross sin for both demons and humans, when there was an ungodly mingling of humans and demons (Genesis 6:1-2). The idea that the apostle Peter, or any other writer of the holy Scriptures, teaches that there is such a place or state as purgatory, is false and pernicious. Water saved Noah (1 Peter 3:20). Obedience saved Noah. The man Noah in Genesis doesn’t represent a nation or something else. However, the above passage of I Peter 3:19 does not refer to this fall. It is expressed, too, by a verb for which Paul has a particular fondness, and which conveys the idea of the intenseness or patience of the waiting. ‘when’-‘marks distinctively the time intended by the word “once”’ (Alford p. 1654). This passage in I Peter 3, particularly verses 19-20, is quite difficult to translate from Greek to English. ς, τοῦτʼ ἐστιν ὀκτὼ ψυχαί, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water, Here Peter plainly says, not only that Christ appeared to the fathers and patriarchs who were dead, some of whom undoubtedly Christ, on His resurrection, raised with Himself to eternal life, but also preached to some who in the time of Noah did not believe, and waited for the patience of God, that is, who hoped that God would not deal so severely with all flesh, in order that they might recognise that, Which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a-preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Were saved—From destruction by the flood, by means of the water which bore up the ark. Baptism saves us, not by the power of the water, but “through the resurrection of Jesus,” just as—as Peter wrote earlier—God gave us a “new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus” (1 Peter 1:3). HOW DID THE GREAT FLOOD’S WATER SAVE THE EIGHT SOULS IN 1 PETER 3:20? Wherein, [ eis (Greek #1519) heen (Greek #3739)] - '(by having entered) into which.'. As Huther rightly observes, however, there is nothing to suggest that Peter meant that the same water which was the means of destruction to the mass was the means of safety to the few. And the ark didn’t represent something besides an actual ark. Commentary on 1 Peter 3:8-13 (Read 1 Peter 3:8-13) Though Christians cannot always be exactly of the same mind, yet they should have compassion one of another, and love as brethren. John Piper Apr 15, 2007 8.9K Shares Sermon. in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared. 1 Peter 3:20. by Grant Richison | Oct 23, 1997 | 1 Peter | 2 comments. 2:38). It means to make an official announcement by a public crier. On the one hand the water meant disaster for the disobedient. He then comforted the godly, lest they should be cast down and destroyed because they were so few; and he chose an example the most remarkable in antiquity, even that of the world drowned by the deluge; for then in the common ruin of mankind, the family of Noah alone escaped. Hence his assiduity in building the ark; for being terrified by God’s judgment, he shook off all torpidity. The ‘spirits’ mentioned in are specified. Verse Thoughts. John Piper Jun 11, 1989 5.6K Shares Sermon. десь вода служила средством Божьего суда, а не спасения (см. According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." A very awkward preposition appears in 1 Peter 3:20 of the King James Bible: “Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.” For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you Be not shaken in spirit by the majority hardening themselves against Christ's grace now: it was still more so at the flood, when all but "eight" perished through unbelief. For ἅπαξ ἐξεδέχετο, Griesbach substitutes ἀπεξεδέχετο as being the most approved reading. 1. Literally it is ‘into which,’ i.e =by entering into which, etc. Scripture: 1 Peter 3:1–7. The Second Coming will mean eternal life for Christians, but it will mean eternal damnation for non-Christians. As in 1 Peter 2:4 et seq., so here, he establishes the readers against the thought, “Can I be right and all these people wrong?” by showing that from the beginning it was always a small number who accepted salvation, and they should naturally expect it to be so now. 1 Peter 1:21 who through Him are believers in God, Who raised (AAP) Him from the dead and gave (AAP) Him glory, so that your faith and hope are (PAN) in God. they rejected the message that Jesus brought through Noah. But as it was not unusual with the Apostles to put one case instead of another, and as we see that Peter here heaps together many things, and no other suitable meaning can be elicited, I have no hesitation in giving this explanation of this intricate passage; so that readers may understand that those called unbelieving are different from those to whom he said the Gospel was preached. This is so because each of the nine Greek words in verse 19 can be translated in various shades of meaning, making interpretation tricky. Question: "Does 1 Peter 3:21 teach that baptism is necessary for salvation?" How he preached to the old world, while Noah was preparing the ark, 1 Peter 3:19, 1 Peter 3:20. 3. 1 Peter 3:20 Translation & Meaning. By ‘souls’ are meant here individuals or persons. The very water which drowned the disobedient was the instrument of saving to those who believed, for it floated their ark. Disclaimer - 1 Peter 3:18-22 are passages which are notoriously difficult to interpret and are reminiscent of Peter's statement about Paul's writings (2Pe 3:16-note). This latter seems favoured in the margin of the Revised Version, which gives ‘into which few, that is, eight souls, were brought safely through water.’ In favour of this local sense (which is preferred by Bengel, de Wette, etc.) ‘who once were disobedient…in the days of Noah’-1. Eight souls; Noah and his wife, his three sons and their wives. The lost sinner isn’t allowed to engage in rebellion after he dies. The ‘once’ which is inserted by the A. V. has very little documentary evidence, and is supposed to have been due to a conjecture of Erasmus. God will have a seed to serve Him while sun and moon endure. 1 Peter 3:20. 1 Peter 3:18-20. Jesus here asserts his triumph over the sin issue. Eight souls were saved in the Ark and by water. 'Aleph (') A B C, Vulgate, read [ apexedecheto (Greek #553) (omitting hapax (Greek #530), "once")] 'was continuing to wait on' (if haply men in the 120 years of grace would repent) until the end of His waiting came in their death by the flood. who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water. While the ark was a-preparing - (Hebrews 11:7.) 1 Peter 1:20 What Does 1 Peter 1:20 Mean? Christ is ascended to heaven, all creatures being subject to him, 1 Peter 3:22. ), ‘which aforetime were disobedient,’ etc. Both the date and the duration at once of the Divine waiting and of the men’s disobedience are thus more clearly defined, the date being identified with the times immediately prior to the flood, and the duration with the whole period of warning afforded by the construction of the Ark, which is indicated to have extended to 120 years (Genesis 6:3).—in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. 1 Peter 3:13. While the ark.—Better, while an ark. God’s patience with sinners, also gave Noah and his family time to build the ark. 1 Peter 3:21 says: . Another detail is confirmed. 1 * Likewise, you wives should be subordinate to your husbands so that, even if some disobey the word, they may be won over without a word by their wives’ conduct 2 when they observe your reverent and chaste behavior. 1 In the same way, you wives should be obedient to your husbands. The salvation of Noah and his family a type of baptism, 1 Peter 3:21. What Peter is saying is that Christ’s disciples should be bold because it forms part of the package of Christian faith to be rejected and ostracized by the world at large. Rather, it was the Ark that saved – the ark that Noah entered by faith. The counsels of 1 Peter 3:8-9 are yet again enforced by a still more pointed statement of the security of the righteous. Jesus preached to a whole generation through Noah, and yet, Noah only influenced 7 other people! Others, 'were brought safe through the water' [ di' (Greek #1223) hudatos (Greek #5204)]. This is so because each of the nine Greek words in verse 19 can be translated in various shades of meaning, making interpretation tricky. By entering the ark, in a sense, Noah saved himself. The length of time during which God labored or "strived" with man (through Noah) is explained by the longsufferiny of Him. When people read 1 Peter 3:21, they wonder if baptism is necessary for salvation. 3:20 Which sometime 4218 were disobedient 544 5660, when 3753 once 530 the longsuffering 3115 of God 2316 waited 1551 5711 in 1722 the days 2250 of Noah 3575, while the ark 2787 was a preparing 2680 5746, wherein 1519 3739 few 3641, that is 5123 5748, eight 3638 souls 5590 were saved 1295 5681 by 1223 water 5204. 1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance. were saved = (entered and) were saved. But let’s first go to Genesis 6, just before the Flood. Wherein.—Literally, whereinto—i.e., by getting into which. The whole account in Genesis 6:1-22; Genesis 7:1-24; Genesis 8:1-22; Genesis 9:1-29 about the Ark and the flood is historically accurate. Apr 15, 2007. And he points out the manner, and says that it was a kind of baptism. This refutes Alford's second day of grace given in Hades. Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Greek Scripture. 1 Peter 3 – Submission and Suffering A. Submission in the home. This passage in I Peter 3, particularly verses 19-20, is quite difficult to translate from Greek to English. Follow the buttons in the right-hand column for detailed definitions and verses that use the same root words. But we are left thus with no obvious connection between this mention of water and the following notice of a salvation by water. dia (Greek #1223) with genitive, 'spite of,' Romans 2:27). “He, having gone, preached,” is similar to a phrase in Ephesians 2:17, “And came and preached,” etc. It cannot be denied that this is a little forced. 1 Peter 3:20. The issue is not the gospel here but a victorious proclamation to fallen angels that they did not have to fall because Jesus did not fall. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of … 2. 2. The Meaning of Baptism - 1 Peter 3:20-21- Pastor David Menendez Tamiami Baptist Church. Heaven is their real home. Scripture: 1 Peter 3:1–7. How can anyone claim that God is cruel or unfair, in view of such patience? Both their wickedness and God’s longsuffering with them were embodied in Hebrew proverbs, which St. Peter’s readers would know, and yet Christ had a gospel for them. And who is he that will do you evil, if ye be zealous of that which is good? Eight people were saved, eight literal people, no more, no less (2 Peter 2:5; Genesis 7:13). Women of Valor for Non-Promise Keepers. 3. The Beautiful Faith of Fearless Submission. Some have for this reason been led to think that no other thing is said here, but that the unbelieving, who had formerly persecuted the godly, found the Spirit of Christ an accuser, as though Peter consoled the faithful with this argument, that Christ, even when dead, punished them. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed without a preacher to warn them, the Canaanites were annihilated without an offer of repentance, but these abandoned Antediluvians sinned in spite of the long ministry of Noah, and died impenitent. I Peter 3:20 … 2. Noah in 3:20: Readers in 3:21: Few: You: Were: Baptism now: Saved: Saves: Through: Through: Water: Resurrection of Jesus [The following is from John Mark Hicks and Greg Taylor, Down in the River to Pray, chapter 2.] John Piper Sep 4, 1994 55 Shares Sermon. Compare, When once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah -. Sep 4, 1994. We have evidence that this was a time of gross sin for both demons and humans, when there was an ungodly mingling of humans and demons (Genesis 6:1-2). One of the most misunderstood verses in the Bible is found in 1 Peter 3:18-20 which says “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit, by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, … This pregnant word “water” leads on to the next thought. compared with the vast number that might have escaped. A long period of God's 'long-suffering and waiting,' which rendered the world's unbelief the more inexcusable. 1 Peter 3:20 ‘who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.’. Christian Spouses. All that he has in view is (as the indefinite ‘water,’ not ‘the water,’ indicates) that it was by means of water that the few entering the ark which floated thereon were preserved. Wait for wrongs to be righted? Rather, Noah was a real man. 1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to … From drowning in that terrible flood. Piper Jun 11, 1989 5.6K Sermon! 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