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The Understanding the Bible Commentary Series helps readers navigate the strange and sometimes intimidating literary terrain of the Bible. These accessible volumes break down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds so that the power and meaning of the biblical texts become transparent to contemporary readers. The contributors tackle the task of interpretation using the full range of critical methodologies and practices, yet they do so as people of faith who hold the text in the highest regard. Pastors, teachers, and lay people alike will cherish the truth found in this commentary series.

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	01 août 2011
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EAN13	9781441236463
Langue	English
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U NDERSTANDING THE B IBLE C OMMENTARY S ERIES
G ENERAL E DITORS
W. Ward Gasque Robert L. Hubbard Jr. Robert K. Johnston
1 and 2 Peter, Jude
Norman Hillyer

a division of Baker Publishing Group
Grand Rapids, Michigan
© 1992 by Norman Hillyer
Published by Baker Books
a division of Baker Publishing Group
P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
www.bakerbooks.com
Previously published jointly in 1995, in the United States by Hendrickson Publishers, and in the United Kingdom by the Paternoster Press.
Baker Books edition published 2011
Ebook edition created 2011
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
ISBN 978-1-4412-3646-3
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com
This is for Jean.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Peter
  §1  Greetings to Readers (1 Pet. 1:1–2)
  §2  Praise for Such a Salvation! (1 Pet. 1:3–9)
  §3  Salvation Was Prophesied (1 Pet. 1:10–12)
  §4  The Believers’ Response in Conduct (1 Pet. 1:13–16)
  §5  Remember the Cost of Your Salvation (1 Pet. 1:17–21)
  §6  The New Imperative of Love (1 Pet. 1:22–25)
  §7  New Life Must Grow (1 Pet. 2:1–3)
  §8  The Stone—Living and Deadly (1 Pet. 2:4–8)
  §9  The New People of God (1 Pet. 2:9–10)
§10  Living the New Life among Others (1 Pet. 2:11–12)
§11  Respect for Authority (1 Pet. 2:13–17)
§12  Called to Suffer Well (1 Pet. 2:18–25)
§13  To Wives (1 Pet. 3:1–6)
§14  To Husbands (1 Pet. 3:7)
§15  To All of You (1 Pet. 3:8–12)
§16  Do Good, Even If You Suffer for It (1 Pet. 3:13–17)
§17  Christ’s Saving Work (1 Pet. 3:18–22)
§18  Live Wholly for God (1 Pet. 4:1–6)
§19  Love Heartily for God (1 Pet. 4:7–11)
§20  Suffer Cheerfully for God (1 Pet. 4:12–19)
§21  A Special Charge to Elders (1 Pet. 5:1–5a)
§22  The Great Virtue of Humility (1 Pet. 5:5b–7)
§23  Orders for Active Service (1 Pet. 5:8–11)
§24  And Now, Farewell! (1 Pet. 5:12–14)
2 Peter
  §1  Greeting (2 Pet. 1:1–2)
  §2  God’s Spiritual Provision (2 Pet. 1:3–4)
  §3  The Need to Grow (2 Pet. 1:5–9)
  §4  Each Believer’s Objective (2 Pet. 1:10–11)
  §5  The Need to Remember (2 Pet. 1:12–15)
  §6  Apostolic Evidence (2 Pet. 1:16–18)
  §7  Scriptural Evidence (2 Pet. 1:19–21)
  §8  Watch Out for False Teachers (2 Pet. 2:1–3)
  §9  Examples of Judgment and Deliverance (2 Pet. 2:4–10a)
§10  The False Teachers’ Effrontery (2 Pet. 2:10b–12)
§11  The False Teachers’ Love of Evil (2 Pet. 2:13–16)
§12  The False Teachers’ Hollowness (2 Pet. 2:17–22)
§13  The Writer’s Purpose Restated (2 Pet. 3:1–2)
§14  The Second Coming Promised (2 Pet. 3:3–7)
§15  The Certainty of the Second Coming (2 Pet. 3:8–10)
§16  Moral Implications (2 Pet. 3:11–14)
§17  Paul’s Support (2 Pet. 3:15–16)
§18  Summary (2 Pet. 3:17–18)
Jude
  §1  Writer and Readers (Jude 1)
  §2  Greeting (Jude 2)
  §3  The Writer’s Purpose Changed (Jude 3–4)
  §4  Three Warning Reminders (Jude 5–7)
  §5  Brazen Ignorance (Jude 8–10)
  §6  Three Examples of Wickedness (Jude 11)
  §7  Wicked Infiltrators Exposed (Jude 12–13)
  §8  Doom Prophesied by Enoch (Jude 14–16)
  §9  Peril Foretold by Apostles (Jude 17–19)
§10  Call to Persevere (Jude 20–23)
§11  Doxology (Jude 24–25)
For Further Reading
Subject Index
Scripture Index
Foreword
Although it does not appear on the standard best-seller lists, the Bible continues to outsell all other books. And in spite of growing secularism in the West, there are no signs that interest in its message is abating. Quite to the contrary, more and more men and women are turning to its pages for insight and guidance in the midst of the ever-increasing complexity of modern life.
This renewed interest in Scripture is found both outside and inside the church. It is found among people in Asia and Africa as well as in Europe and North America; indeed, as one moves outside of the traditionally Christian countries, interest in the Bible seems to quicken. Believers associated with the traditional Catholic and Protestant churches manifest the same eagerness for the Word that is found in the newer evangelical churches and fellowships.
We wish to encourage and, indeed, strengthen this worldwide movement of lay Bible study by offering this new commentary series. Although we hope that pastors and teachers will find these volumes helpful in both understanding and communicating the Word of God, we do not write primarily for them. Our aim is to provide for the benefit of every Bible reader reliable guides to the books of the Bible—representing the best of contemporary scholarship presented in a form that does not require formal theological education to understand.
The conviction of editor and authors alike is that the Bible belongs to the people and not merely to the academy. The message of the Bible is too important to be locked up in erudite and esoteric essays and monographs written only for the eyes of theological specialists. Although exact scholarship has its place in the service of Christ, those who share in the teaching office of the church have a responsibility to make the results of their research accessible to the Christian community at large. Thus, the Bible scholars who join in the presentation of this series write with these broader concerns in view.
A wide range of modern translations is available to the contemporary Bible student. Most of them are very good and much to be preferred—for understanding, if not always for beauty—to the older King James Version (the so-called Authorized Version of the Bible). The Revised Standard Version has become the standard English translation in many seminaries and colleges and represents the best of modern Protestant scholarship. It is also available in a slightly altered “common Bible” edition with the Catholic imprimatur, and the New Revised Standard Version appeared in 1989. In addition, the New American Bible is a fresh translation that represents the best of post-Vatican II Roman Catholic biblical scholarship and is in a more contemporary idiom than that of the RSV .
The New Jerusalem Bible, based on the work of French Catholic scholars but vividly rendered into English by a team of British translators, is perhaps the most literary of the recent translations, while the New English Bible is a monument to modern British Protestant research. The Good News Bible is probably the most accessible translation for the person who has little exposure to the Christian tradition or who speaks and reads English as a second language. Each of these is, in its own way, excellent and will be consulted with profit by the serious student of Scripture. Perhaps most will wish to have several versions to read, both for variety and for clarity of understanding—though it should be pointed out that no one of them is by any means flawless or to be received as the last word on any given point. Otherwise, there would be no need for a commentary series like this one!
We have chosen to use the New International Version as the basis for this series, not because it is necessarily the best translation available but because it is becoming increasingly used by lay Bible students and pastors. It is the product of an international team of “evangelical” Bible scholars who have sought to translate the Hebrew and Greek documents of the original into “clear and natural English … idiomatic [and] … contemporary but not dated,” suitable for “young and old, highly educated and less well educated, ministers and laymen [ sic ].” As the translators themselves confess in their preface, this version is not perfect. However, it is as good as any of the others mentioned above and more popular than most of them.
Each volume will contain an introductory chapter detailing the background of the book and its author, important themes, and other helpful information. Then, each section of the book will be expounded as a whole, accompanied by a series of notes on items in the text that need further clarification or more detailed explanation. Appended to the end of each volume will be a bibliographical guide for further study.
Our new series is offered with the prayer that it may be an instrument of authentic renewal and advancement in the worldwide Christian community and a means of commending the faith of the people who lived in biblical times and of those who seek to live by the Bible today.
W. W ARD G ASQUE
Provost
Eastern College
St. Davids, Pennsylvania
Abbreviations
APOT
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament , ed. by R. H. Charles, 2 vols., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913; repr. 1963
b.
Babylonian Talmud
BAGD
W. Bauer, W. F. Arndt, F. W. Gingrich, and F. Danker, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature , 2d ed., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
Barclay
W. Barclay, The New Testament: A New Translation , 2 vols., London: Collins, 1969.
BDB
F. Brown, S. R. Driver, and C. A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1929
Dead Sea Scrolls (Qumran)
    CD
Cairo Damascus Document
    1Q
(documents discovered in) Qumran Cave 1
    1QH
Hymns of Thanksgiving
    1QM
The War of the Sons of Light with the Sons of Darkness
    1QpHab
Commentary on Habakkuk
    1QS
Rule of the Community
    1QSa
Rule of the Congregation
    1QSb
Collection of Benedictions
    4Q
(documents discovered in) Qumran Cave 4
    4Q169
Commen