Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Peter 2:13 - 2:13

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Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Peter 2:13 - 2:13


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Be subject to (hupotagēte). Second aorist passive imperative second person plural of hupotassō, to subject to, as in 1Pe 3:22.

Every ordinance of man (pasēi anthrōpinēi ktisei). Dative case of old and common word ktisis (from ktizō, to create, to found), act of creation (Rom 1:20), a creature or creation (Rom 1:25), all creation (Col 1:15), an institution as here (in Pindar so). For anthrōpinos (human) see Jam 3:7. Peter here approves no special kind of government, but he supports law and order as Paul does (Rom 13:1-8) unless it steps in between God and man (Act 4:20).

For the Lord’s sake (dia ton kurion). For Jesus’ sake. That is reason enough for the Christian not to be an anarchist (Mat 22:21). The heathen were keen to charge the Christians with any crime after Nero set the fashion. “It should not be forgotten that, in spite of the fine language of the philosophers, the really popular religions in Greece and Rome were forms of devil-worship, intimately blended with magic in all its grades” (Bigg).

As supreme (hōs huperechonti). Dative singular of present active participle of huperechō, old verb (intransitive), to stand out above (to have it over), as in Rom 13:1. It is not the divine right of kings, but the fact of the king as the outstanding ruler.