1 Peter
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
In his commentary on 1 Peter, D. Edmond Hiebert offers a solid study of the most colorful disciple’s thoughts. He traces the ways in which Jesus transformed Peter’s life to make him a pillar of the early church. Peter learned many hard lessons and developed undaunted courage to meet an unbelieving and persecuting world.
Top Highlights
“First Peter is preeminently an epistle of triumphant faith amid suffering. It exultantly proclaims the Christ-centered hope of the believer in the midst of an unbelieving and antagonistic world.” (Page 11)
“The attitude advocated is not the craven, cringing dread of a slave before an offended master, but the reverential awe of a son toward a beloved and esteemed father, the awe that shrinks from whatever would displease and grieve him.” (Page 100)
“That compound term pictures the readers living as resident aliens beside a people to whom they did not belong. They did not expect to be regarded as natives of the places where they resided.” (Page 46)
“They were constantly being reminded that they were citizens of a heavenly kingdom (Phil. 3:20; Col. 1:5; Heb. 10:34–35; 1 Pet. 1:3–4), but that teaching of Christian freedom was capable of being misinterpreted and misused. Their freedom in Christ was ‘not political but that interior liberty of the Christian which results from breaking the yoke of bondage to sin or the law.’29 As living in this world, it did not relieve them of their duty of submission to the civil powers. Believers should render due submission ‘for the Lord’s sake’ (v. 13) without feeling that they are the slaves of government.” (Page 169)
“Peter did not command his readers; he appealed to their own sense of what is right. As those who have been born again, he knows that they are able to do what he asks. True holiness is not procured by the application of a compelling external authority, but by awakening and strengthening the personal desire and will of those appealed to.” (Page 154)
