John Bengel Commentary - 1 Peter 3:10 - 3:10

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John Bengel Commentary - 1 Peter 3:10 - 3:10


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1Pe 3:10. Ὁ γὰρ θέλων ζωὴν ἀγαπᾷν καὶ ἰθεῖν ἡμέρας ἀγαθὰς, he who wishes to love life and to see good days) If you wish, says Peter, to taste of that inheritance, you must abstain from evil in speaking and in practice. Psa 34:12-16, Septuagint: Τίς ἐστιν ἄνθρωπος ὁ θέλων ζωὴν, ἀγκπῶν ἡμέρας ἰδεῖν ἀγαθάς; What man is there who wishes life, loving to see good days? And thus the Hebrew has it in that passage, and the Syriac Version in this. Peter, without altering the sense, imparts to it fresh vivacity: θέλων ζωὴν ἀγαπᾷν, who wishes so to live, that he may not be wearied of life. Opposed to this is ἐμίσησα τὴν ζωὴν, Ecc 2:17; that is, I became weary of life. And so Gen 27:46; Num 11:15.-παυσάτω τὴν γλῶσσαν αὐτοῦ, let him refrain his tongue) The Septuagint has παῦσον τὴν γλῶσσάνσου, refrain thy tongue, and the remainder of the passage in the second person, as far as the words διʼωξον αὐτήν, ensue it.