Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Peter 1:5 - 1:5

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Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Peter 1:5 - 1:5


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By the power of God (en dunamei theou). No other dunamis (power) like this (Col 1:3).

Are guarded (phrouroumenous). Present (continuous process) passive articular (tous) participle of phroureō, to garrison, old verb (from phrouros sentinel), a military term (Act 9:24; 2Co 11:32), used of God’s love (Phi 4:7) as here. “The inheritance is kept; the heirs are guarded” (Bengel).

Through faith (dia pisteōs). Intermediate agency (dia), the immediate being (en, in, by) God’s power.

Unto a salvation (eis sōtērian). Deliverance is the goal (eis) of the process and final salvation here, consummation as in 1Th 5:8, from sōtēr (Saviour, from sōzō, to save).

Ready (hetoimēn). Prepared awaiting God’s will (Gal 3:23; Rom 8:18).

To be revealed (apokaluphthēnai). First aorist passive infinitive of apokaluptō, to unveil. Cf. Col 3:4 for phaneroō (to manifest) in this sense.

In the last time (en kairōi eschatōi). This precise phrase nowhere else, but similar ones in Joh 6:39; Act 2:17; Jam 5:3; 2Ti 3:1; 2Pe 3:3; Heb 1:2; Jud 1:18; 1Jo 2:18. Hort translates it here “in a season of extremity,” but it is usually taken to refer to the Day of Judgment. That day no one knows, Jesus said.