1 Peter 1
Wesley1 Peter 1:1
In the volume of the book - In this very psalm it is written of me. Accordingly I come to do thy will - By the sacrifice of myself.
1 Peter 1:2
Above when he said, Sacrifice thou hast not chosen - That is, when the Psalmist pronounced those words in his name.
1 Peter 1:3
Then said he - in that very instant he subjoined. Lo, I come to do Thy will - To offer a more acceptable sacrifice; and by this very act he taketh away the legal, that he may establish the evangelical, dispensation.
1 Peter 1:4
By which will - Of God, done and suffered by Christ. We are sanctified - Cleansed from guilt, and consecrated to God.
1 Peter 1:5
Every priest standeth - As a servant in an humble posture.
1 Peter 1:6
But he - The virtue of whose one sacrifice remains for ever. Sat down - As a son, in majesty and honour.
1 Peter 1:7
1 Peter 1:8
He hath perfected them for ever - That is, has done all that was needful in order to their full reconciliation with God.
1 Peter 1:9
In this and the three following verses, the apostle winds up his argument concerning the excellency and perfection of the priesthood and sacrifice of Christ. He had proved this before by a quotation from Jeremiah; which he here repeats, describing the new covenant as now completely ratified, and all the blessings of it secured to us by the one offering of Christ, which renders all other expiatory sacrifices, and any repetition of his own, utterly needless.
1 Peter 1:10
Jeremiah 31:33, &c
1 Peter 1:13
Having finished the doctrinal part of his epistle, the apostle now proceeds to exhortation deduced from what has been treated of Heb 5:4, which he begins by a brief recapitulation. Having therefore liberty to enter, -
1 Peter 1:14
By a living way - The way of faith, whereby we live indeed. Which he hath consecrated - Prepared, dedicated, and established for us. Through the veil, that is, his flesh - As by rending the veil in the temple, the holy of holies became visible and accessible; so by wounding the body of Christ, the God of heaven was manifested, and the way to heaven opened.
1 Peter 1:16
Let us draw near - To God. With a true heart - In godly sincerity. Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience - So as to condemn us no longer And our bodies washed with pure water - All our conversation spotless and holy, which is far more acceptable to God than all the legal sprinklings and washings.
1 Peter 1:17
The profession of our hope - The hope which we professed at our baptism.
1 Peter 1:19
Not forsaking the assembling ourselves - In public or private worship. As the manner of some is - Either through fear of persecution, or from a vain imagination that they were above external ordinances. But exhorting one another - To faith, love, and good works. And so much the more, as ye see the day approaching - The great day is ever in your eye.
1 Peter 1:20
For when we - Any of us Christians. Sin wilfully - By total apostasy from God, termed “drawing back,” Hebrews 10:38. After having received the experimental knowledge of the gospel truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins - None but that which we obstinately reject.
1 Peter 1:22
He that, in capital cases, despised (presumptuously transgressed) the law of Moses died without mercy - Without any delay or mitigation of his punishment.
1 Peter 1:23
Of how much sorer punishment is he worthy, who - By wilful, total apostasy. It does not appear that this passage refers to any other sin. Hath, as it were, trodden underfoot the Son of God - A lawgiver far more honourable than Moses. And counted the blood wherewith the better covenant was established, an unholy, a common, worthless thing. By which he hath been sanctified - Therefore Christ died for him also, and he was at least justified once. And done despite to the Spirit of grace - By rejecting all his motions.
1 Peter 1:24
The Lord will judge his people - Yea, far more rigorously than the heathens, if they rebel against him. Deuteronomy 32:35, &c.
1 Peter 1:25
To fall into the hands - Of his avenging justice.