Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
foreknowledge--foreordaining love (1 Peter 1:20), inseparable from God's foreknowledge, the origin from which, and pattern according to which, election takes place. Acts 2:23, and Romans 11:2, prove "foreknowledge" to be foreordination. God's foreknowledge is not the perception of any ground of action out of Himself; still in it liberty is comprehended, and all absolute constraint debarred [ANSELM in STEIGER]. For so the Son of God was "foreknown" (so the Greek for "foreordained," 1 Peter 1:20) to be the sacrificial Lamb, not against, or without His will, but His will rested in the will of the Father; this includes self-conscious action; nay, even cheerful acquiescense. The Hebrew and Greek "know" include approval and acknowledging as one's own. The Hebrew marks the oneness of loving and choosing, by having one word for both, bachar (Greek, "hairetizo," Septuagint). Peter descends from the eternal "election" of God through the new birth, to the believer's "sanctification," that from this he might again raise them through the consideration of their new birth to a "living hope" of the heavenly "inheritance" [HEIDEGGER]. The divine three are introduced in their respective functions in redemption.
through--Greek, "in"; the element in which we are elected. The "election" of God realized and manifested itself "IN" their sanctification. Believers are "sanctified through the offering of Christ once for all" (Hebrews 10:10). "Thou must believe and know that thou art holy; not, however, through thine own piety, but through the blood of Christ" [LUTHER]. This is the true sanctification of the Spirit, to obey the Gospel, to trust in Christ [BULLINGER].
sanctification--the Spirit's setting apart of the saint as consecrated to God. The execution of God's choice (Galatians 1:4). God the Father gives us salvation by gratuitous election; the Son earns it by His blood-shedding; the Holy Spirit applies the merit of the Son to the soul by the Gospel word [CALVIN]. Compare Numbers 6:24-26, the Old Testament triple blessing.
unto obedience--the result or end aimed at by God as respects us, the obedience which consists in faith, and that which flows from faith; "obeying the truth through the Spirit" (1 Peter 1:22). Romans 1:5, "obedience to the faith," and obedience the fruit of faith.
sprinkling, etc.--not in justification through the atonement once for all, which is expressed in the previous clauses, but (as the order proves) the daily being sprinkled by Christ's blood, and so cleansed from all sin, which is the privilege of one already justified and "walking in the light."
Grace--the source of "peace."
be multiplied--still further than already. Daniel 4:1, "Ye have now peace and grace, but still not in perfection; therefore, ye must go on increasing until the old Adam be dead" [LUTHER].
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Isaiah 52:15
Romans 6:19
Romans 8:29
1 Corinthians 1:2
1 Corinthians 6:11
1 Corinthians 8:3
Ephesians 1:1
Colossians 1:22
1 Thessalonians 3:12
2 Thessalonians 2:13
Hebrews 8:3
Hebrews 9:19
Hebrews 10:14
1 Peter 1:16
1 Peter 1:22
1 Peter 5:12
2 Peter 1:2
Jude 1:1
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