1 Our Lord Jesus Christ is very gracious to his people. He is in himself infinitely good; he is very kind, free, and merciful to miserable sinners; he is pitiful and good to the undeserving; he has in him a fulness of grace. 2. The graciousness of our Redeemer is best discovered by an experimental taste of it.
1 The greatest security and encouragement to a sinner supposed. a) The place—the remotest part of the sea; by which you are to understand the most obscure nook in the creation. b) His swift and speedy flight after the commission of sin, to this supposed refuge and sanctuary: "If I take the wings of the morning."
Clarkes Commentary. Verse 10. But the God of all grace — The Fountain of infinite compassion, mercy, and goodness.Mohammed has conveyed this fine description of the Divine Being in the words with which he commences every surat or chapter of his Koran, two excepted; viz.; . Who hath called us — By the preaching of the Gospel.. Unto his eternal
A Christ suffered unjustly on our behalf. The word “for” (3:18) shows that Peter is explaining what preceded, namely, that we may suffer for doing what is right as a means of bearing witness. As in 2:21-25, Peter points us to Christ as our chief example (“also,” 3:18), but then he takes us beyond Christ’s example to the uniqueness of . 236 73 166 395 428 43 309 348