A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: 1 Peter (Biblia.com)

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Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures has served as a standard reference for more than a century. The subtitle “Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical” aptly describes the three-pronged approach to the biblical text. This translated version of the German text is often considered by many to be superior to the original.

with the preceding exhortations to perseverance in well-doing and suffering.—ἐν φυλακᾖ not=in the realms of death, for the word always denotes a custody, a place of confinement, a prison, Rev. 20:7; Matt. 5:25; 14:3; 18:30; 25:36; Mk. 6:17, 27; Lke. 2:8; 12:58; 21:12; 23:19; Jno. 3:24; Acts 5:19; 8:3; 2 Cor. 6:5; Heb. 11:36; consequently it has not the abstract sense of being bound. But this prison must be in the realms of death, cf. 2 Pet. 2:4; Jude 6; Matt. 5:25, 26. This evidently follows

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