I Peter 2: 4-10 for study group, part 1
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Preface
Part 1 of preparation for leading a church home group, bible study, next week.
Our church uses the English Standard Version (ESV), so I will use that English version of I Peter 2: 4-10.
I have needed to make the Greek New Testament image extra large for public presentation. This will possibly distort some mobile versions.
I Peter 2: 4-10
4 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For it stands in Scripture:
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,
a cornerstone chosen and precious,
and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
7 So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe,
“The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone,”[a]
8 and
“A stone of stumbling,
and a rock of offense.”
They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Footnotes a 1 Peter 2:7 Greek the head of the corner
This week the study leader asked if predestination was referenced in this upcoming passage. Concerning 'chosen' in verses 4 and 9.
Referenced
ἐκλεκτὸν (chosen)
Listed as an adjective (describes the noun) as in God chosen.
adjective, accusative (marks the direct object), masculine, singular. Again, God chosen.
ἐκλεκτὸν is also used for I Peter 2: 4 within The Greek New Testament (788).
Quote: 'Bold face type is used to identify direct quotations from the Old Testament. (1). Bold face type is used for ἐκλεκτὸν at I Peter 2: 9 where Exodus 19: 6 is quoted (paraphrased as in Greek, not Hebrew). (1, footnotes).
ἐκλεκτὸν (eklekton)
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Original Word: ἐκλεκτός, ή, όν
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'Usage: chosen out, elect, choice, select, sometimes as subst: of those chosen out by God for the rendering of special service to Him (of the Hebrew race, particular Hebrews, the Messiah, and the Christians).'
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Consistent manuscript evidence.
Verse 9 states But you are a chosen race.
ἐκλεκτόν is again used. This time as an adjective, nominative, neuter, singular. The nominative relates to the subject. As in chosen race.
Again there is consistent manuscript evidence.
Bauer
ἐκλεκτόν ή, όν (242)
I Peter 2: 9 'esp. of those whom God has chosen fr. the generality of mankind and drawn to himself.' (242). I Peter 2: 4 is defined, again, slightly differently from 2: 9, as in 'Since the best is usually chosen, choice, excellent'. (242). I deny that this excellence is based on human goodness, as Romans, Ephesians, Galatians and Hebrews as examples, deny human works righteousness for salvation. By excellence, if Bauer has a reasonable theological definition here, I reason these people, as Christians, and Hebrew Bible believers before the cross, are excellent because they fit into God's excellent, external plans. Being regenerate through God the Holy Spirit (John 3, Titus 3, 1 Peter 1: 3), through the applied atoning and resurrection work of Jesus Christ, God the Son, submitting to God the Father. This salvific work providing justification and sanctification, by grace through faith, alone.
STRONG, J. (1890)(1986) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Burlington, Welch Publishing Company.
