Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Peter 4:17 - 4:17

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Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Peter 4:17 - 4:17


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For the time is come (hoti ho kairos). No predicate, probably estin (is) to be supplied. The phrase that follows comes from the vision of Ezekiel (chapter Eze 9:1-11). The construction is unusual with tou arxasthai (genitive articular aorist middle infinitive of archō), not exactly purpose or result, and almost in apposition (epexegetic), but note tou elthein used as subject in Luk 17:1. The persecution on hand (1Pe 1:7) was a foretaste of more to come. By “house of God” he can mean the same as the “spiritual house” of 1Pe 2:5 or a local church. Biggs even takes it to refer to the family.

And if it begin first at us (ei de prōton aph'hēmōn). Condition of first class again, with the verb archetai understood. “From us” (aph' hēmōn) more exactly.

End (telos). Final fate.

Of them that obey not the gospel of God (tōn apeithountōn tōi tou theou euaggeliōi). “Of those disobeying the gospel of God.” See the same idea in Rom 2:8. See Mar 1:14 for believing in the gospel.