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Text -- 1 Peter 2:3 (NET)

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2:3 if you have experienced the Lord’s kindness.
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: Word of God | TRINITY, 2 | TASTE | Regeneration | PETER, THE FIRST EPISTLE OF | PERSON OF CHRIST, 1-3 | Grace of God | GRACIOUS | more
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TSK Synopsis , MHCC , Matthew Henry , Barclay , Constable , College

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Robertson: 1Pe 2:3 - -- If ye have tasted ( ei egeusasthe ). Condition of first class with ei and first aorist middle indicative of geuō in figurative sense as in Heb ...

If ye have tasted ( ei egeusasthe ).

Condition of first class with ei and first aorist middle indicative of geuō in figurative sense as in Heb 6:4. "A taste excites the appetite"(Bengel).

Robertson: 1Pe 2:3 - -- Gracious ( chrēstos ). Quotation from Psa 34:8. The Hebrew for the lxx chrēstos is simply tobh (good). Plato used the word for food also, and...

Gracious ( chrēstos ).

Quotation from Psa 34:8. The Hebrew for the lxx chrēstos is simply tobh (good). Plato used the word for food also, and Peter carries out the metaphor in gala (milk) as in Luk 5:39.

Vincent: 1Pe 2:3 - -- Ye have tasted ( ἐγεύσασθε ) Aorist tense. More literally, ye tasted. " A taste excites the appetite" (Bengel). Compare long for...

Ye have tasted ( ἐγεύσασθε )

Aorist tense. More literally, ye tasted. " A taste excites the appetite" (Bengel). Compare long for, 1Pe 2:2, and Psa 34:8.

Vincent: 1Pe 2:3 - -- Gracious ( χρηστὸς ) Actively benignant, " as distinguished from other adjectives which describe goodness on the side of its sterling w...

Gracious ( χρηστὸς )

Actively benignant, " as distinguished from other adjectives which describe goodness on the side of its sterling worth and its gentleness " (Salmond). See on Mat 11:30.

Wesley: 1Pe 2:3 - -- Sweetly and experimentally known.

Sweetly and experimentally known.

JFB: 1Pe 2:3 - -- Peter alludes to Psa 34:8. The first "tastes" of God's goodness are afterwards followed by fuller and happier experiences. A taste whets the appetite ...

Peter alludes to Psa 34:8. The first "tastes" of God's goodness are afterwards followed by fuller and happier experiences. A taste whets the appetite [BENGEL].

JFB: 1Pe 2:3 - -- Greek, "good," benignant, kind; as God is revealed to us in Christ, "the Lord" (1Pe 2:4), we who are born again ought so to be good and kind to the br...

Greek, "good," benignant, kind; as God is revealed to us in Christ, "the Lord" (1Pe 2:4), we who are born again ought so to be good and kind to the brethren (1Pe 1:22). "Whosoever has not tasted the word to him it is not sweet it has not reached the heart; but to them who have experienced it, who with the heart believe, 'Christ has been sent for me and is become my own: my miseries are His, and His life mine,' it tastes sweet" [LUTHER].

Clarke: 1Pe 2:3 - -- If so be ye have tasted - Ειπερ εγευΡƒασθε· Seeing ye have tasted. There could be no doubt that they had tasted the goodness of Ch...

If so be ye have tasted - Ειπερ εγευΡƒασθε· Seeing ye have tasted. There could be no doubt that they had tasted the goodness of Christ who were born again, of incorruptible seed, and whose hearts were purified by the truth, and who had like precious faith with the apostles themselves

Clarke: 1Pe 2:3 - -- That the Lord is gracious - Ὁτι χρηστος ὁ Κυριος· From the similarity of the letters, many MSS. and several of the fathers h...

That the Lord is gracious - Ὁτι χρηστος ὁ Κυριος· From the similarity of the letters, many MSS. and several of the fathers have read, Χριστος ὁ κυριος, the Lord is Christ, or Christ is the Lord

This seems to refer to Psa 34:8 : O taste and see that the Lord is good; Γευσασθε και ιδετε ὁτι χρηστος ὁ Κυριος, Sept. And there is still a reference to the sucking child that, having once tasted its mother’ s milk, ever after desires and longs for it. As they were born of God, and had tasted his goodness, they would naturally desire the same pure unadulterated milk of the word.

Calvin: 1Pe 2:3 - -- 3.If so be that ye have tasted; or, If indeed ye have tasted. He alludes to Psa 34:8, “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” But he says that ...

3.If so be that ye have tasted; or, If indeed ye have tasted. He alludes to Psa 34:8,

“Taste and see that the Lord is good.”

But he says that this taste is to be had in Christ, as, doubtless, our souls can find no rest anywhere but in him. But he has drawn the ground of his exhortation from the goodness of God, because his kindness, which we perceive in Christ, ought to allure us; for what follows,

TSK: 1Pe 2:3 - -- Psa 9:10, Psa 24:8, Psa 63:5; Son 2:3; Zec 9:17; Heb 6:5, Heb 6:6

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: 1Pe 2:3 - -- If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious - Or rather, as Doddridge renders it, "Since you have tasted that the Lord is gracious."The a...

If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious - Or rather, as Doddridge renders it, "Since you have tasted that the Lord is gracious."The apostle did not mean to express any doubt on the subject, but to state that, since they had had an experimental acquaintance with the grace of God, they should desire to increase more and more in the knowledge and love of him. On the use of the word "taste,"see the notes at Heb 6:4.

Poole: 1Pe 2:3 - -- If so be this doth not imply a doubting, but a supposition, as was before observed, 1Pe 1:17 . Ye have tasted not lightly tasted by a bare ineffect...

If so be this doth not imply a doubting, but a supposition, as was before observed, 1Pe 1:17 .

Ye have tasted not lightly tasted by a bare ineffectual knowledge, as Heb 6:4 ; but experienced and perceived by the taste of your spiritual palate; your spiritual sense, and ability to judge of spiritual things, being restored to you, with your new birth. He refers to Psa 34:8 , and possibly to Isa 66:11 .

The Lord the Lord Jesus Christ, as appears by the next verse.

Is gracious good, kind, or rather, sweet: the same word is applied to wine, Luk 5:39 . The sense of the whole is: If ye have by faith received the gospel as glad tidings, and worthy of all acceptation, 1Ti 1:15 , and therein perceived and experienced the sweetness of those consolations which are in Christ Jesus, Phi 2:1 ; or, which is the same, how sweet he is, who, in the preaching of the gospel, exhibits himself to your spiritual senses, to be fed upon and tasted by you.

Haydock: 1Pe 2:3 - -- Whoever has a relish for Jesus Christ, has also for his word; and such as have a relish for neither, are truly deplorable. Let us pray then that God w...

Whoever has a relish for Jesus Christ, has also for his word; and such as have a relish for neither, are truly deplorable. Let us pray then that God would feed us with his word, and with the holy Eucharist, that contains his body and blood, his soul and his divinity, that we may thereby grow up to salvation.

Gill: 1Pe 2:3 - -- If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. Reference is had to Psa 34:8, "O taste and see that the Lord is good"; and the Syriac version here ...

If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. Reference is had to Psa 34:8, "O taste and see that the Lord is good"; and the Syriac version here adds, "if ye have seen": by the Lord is meant, the Lord Jesus Christ, as the following words show, who is gracious and amiable, and lovely in his person; who has a fulness of grace in him for his people; has displayed his grace towards them, in engaging for them as a surety, in assuming their nature, obeying, suffering, and dying in their stead; he is gracious in his word and promises, truths and ordinances, and in all his offices and relations; and regenerate persons have tasted that he is so: an unregenerate man has no spiritual taste; his taste is vitiated by sin, and not being changed, sin is a sweet morsel in his mouth, and he disrelishes everything that is spiritual; but one that is born again savours the things of the Spirit of God; sin is exceeding sinful to him, and Christ exceeding precious; he, and his fruit, his promises, and blessings of grace, his word and ordinances, are sweet unto his taste: and the taste he has is not a mere superficial one, such as hypocrites may have of the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come; but such a taste of Christ, and of his grace, as, by a true faith, to eat his flesh, and drink his blood, and so have everlasting life; such have a saving and experimental knowledge of Christ, an application of him, and his saving benefits to them, a revelation of him in them, so that they find and feel that he dwells in them, and they in him; such receive out of Christ's fulness, and grace for grace, and live by faith upon him, and receive nourishment from him; and of this the apostle made no doubt concerning these persons, but took it for granted that they had had such tastes of Christ, and therefore could not but desire the Gospel, which is a revelation of Christ, and sets forth the glory of his person, and the riches of his grace: and whereas, such as have truly tasted of his grace cannot but desire to have more, and fresh tastes of it; where should they have them, but in his word and ordinances? and therefore, would they grow in grace, and know more of Christ, and taste more of his goodness, it is their interest, as it is their spiritual nature, to desire the Gospel, in the purity and sincerity of it.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 1Pe 2:3 A quotation from Ps 34:8.

Geneva Bible: 1Pe 2:3 ( 3 ) If so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious. ( 3 ) He commends that spiritual nourishment for the sweetness and profit of it.

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: 1Pe 2:1-25 - --1 He exhorts them from the breach of charity;4 shewing that Christ is the foundation whereupon they are built.11 He beseeches them also to abstain fro...

MHCC: 1Pe 2:1-10 - --Evil-speaking is a sign of malice and guile in the heart; and hinders our profiting by the word of God. A new life needs suitable food. Infants desire...

Matthew Henry: 1Pe 2:1-3 - -- The holy apostle has been recommending mutual charity, and setting forth the excellences of the word of God, calling it an incorruptible seed, and...

Barclay: 1Pe 2:1-3 - --No Christian can stay the way he is; and Peter urges his people to have done with evil things and to set their hearts on that which alone can nourish...

Barclay: 1Pe 2:1-3 - --But there is something on which the Christian must set his heart. He must yearn for the unadulterated milk of the word. This is a phrase about whose...

Constable: 1Pe 1:3--2:11 - --II. The Identity of Christians 1:3--2:10 The recurrence of the direct address, "Beloved," in 2:11 and 4:12 divid...

Constable: 1Pe 2:1-10 - --C. Our Priestly Calling 2:1-10 Peter continued his explanation of Christians' duties as we endure trials...

Constable: 1Pe 2:1-3 - --1. Listening to God 2:1-3 2:1 "Therefore" goes back to 1:3-12 as well as 1:22-25. To prepare for an exposition of the Christian's calling, Peter urged...

College: 1Pe 2:1-25 - --1 PETER 2 F. CRAVE PURE SPIRITUAL MILK (2:1-3) 1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind....

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Introduction / Outline

Robertson: 1 Peter (Book Introduction) THE FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL OF PETER ABOUT a.d. 65 By Way of Introduction The Author The Epistle is not anonymous, but claims to be written by "...

JFB: 1 Peter (Book Introduction) ITS GENUINENESS is attested by 2Pe 3:1. On the authority of Second Peter, see the Introduction. Also by POLYCARP (in EUSEBIUS [Ecclesiastical History,...

JFB: 1 Peter (Outline) ADDRESS TO THE ELECTED OF THE GODHEAD: THANKSGIVING FOR THE LIVING HOPE TO WHICH WE ARE BEGOTTEN, PRODUCING JOY AMIDST SUFFERINGS: THIS SALVATION AN ...

TSK: 1 Peter (Book Introduction) As the design of this Epistle is excellent, remarks Dr. Macknight, so is its execution, in the judgment of the best critics, does not fall short of it...

TSK: 1 Peter 2 (Chapter Introduction) Overview 1Pe 2:1, He exhorts them from the breach of charity; 1Pe 2:4, shewing that Christ is the foundation whereupon they are built; 1Pe 2:11, H...

Poole: 1 Peter 2 (Chapter Introduction) PETER CHAPTER 2

MHCC: 1 Peter (Book Introduction) The same great doctrines, as in St. Paul's epistles, are here applied to same practical purposes. And this epistle is remarkable for the sweetness, ge...

MHCC: 1 Peter 2 (Chapter Introduction) (1Pe 2:1-10) A temper suitable to the Christian character as born again, is recommended. (1Pe 2:11, 1Pe 2:12) Holy conversation among the Gentiles di...

Matthew Henry: 1 Peter (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The First Epistle General of Peter Two epistles we have enrolled in the sacred canon of the scripture w...

Matthew Henry: 1 Peter 2 (Chapter Introduction) The general exhortation to holiness is continued, and enforced by several reasons taken from the foundation on which Christians are built, Jesus Ch...

Barclay: 1 Peter (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST LETTER OF PETER The Catholic Or General Epistles First Peter belongs to that group of New Testament letters which are k...

Barclay: 1 Peter 2 (Chapter Introduction) What To Lose And What To Yearn For (1Pe_2:1-3) That On Which To Set The Heart (1Pe_2:1-3 Continued) The Nature And Function Of The Church (1Pe_2:...

Constable: 1 Peter (Book Introduction) Introduction Historical background This epistle claims that the Apostle Peter wrote it...

Constable: 1 Peter (Outline) Outline I. Introduction 1:1-2 II. The identity of Christians 1:3-2:10 A....

Constable: 1 Peter 1 Peter Bibliography Bailey, Mark L., and Thomas L. Constable. The New Testament Explorer. Nashville: Word Publ...

Haydock: 1 Peter (Book Introduction) THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PETER, THE APOSTLE. INTRODUCTION. This first Epistle of St. Peter, though brief, contains much doctrine concerning fa...

Gill: 1 Peter (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO 1 PETER That Simon, called Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, was the writer of this epistle, is not questioned by any; nor was the...

Gill: 1 Peter 2 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO 1 PETER 2 This chapter consists of exhortations, in general, to a holy life; and, in particular, to obedience to superiors. It begi...

College: 1 Peter (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION This commentary is written for the general reader with a serious interest in Scripture. Its purpose is to provide a historical interpret...

College: 1 Peter (Outline) OUTLINE I. THE GREETING - 1:1-2 II. A CALL TO BE HOLY - 1:3-2:10 A. The Hope of Salvation - 1:3-9 B. The Glory of This Salvation - 1:10-1...

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