Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Peter 1:22 - 1:22

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Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Peter 1:22 - 1:22


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Seeing ye have purified (hēgnikotes). Perfect active participle of hagnizō, old verb from hagnos (pure), here with psuchas (souls), with kardias (hearts) in Jam 4:8 as in 1Jo 3:3 of moral cleansing also. See the ceremonial sense of the word as in lxx in Joh 11:55; Act 21:24, Act 21:26; Act 24:18.

In your obedience (en tēi hupakoēi). With repetition of the idea in 1Pe 1:2, 1Pe 1:14 (children of obedience).

To the truth (tēs aletheias). Objective genitive with which compare Joh 17:17, Joh 17:19 about sanctification in the truth and 2Th 2:12 about believing the truth. There is cleansing power in the truth of God in Christ.

Unfeigned (anupokriton). Late and rare double compound, here alone in Peter, but see Jam 3:17; 2Co 6:6, etc. No other kind of philadelphia (brotherly love) is worth having (1Th 4:9; Heb 13:1; 2Pe 1:7).

From the heart fervently (ek kardias ektenōs). Late adverb (in inscriptions, Polybius, lxx). The adjective ektenēs is more common (1Pe 4:8).