SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:20
ya ordenado desde antes de la fundacin del mundo, pero manifestado en los postrimeros tiempos por amor de vosotros,
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 1:20
Verse 20. Who verily was foreordained] proegnwsmenou? Foreknown; appointed in the Divine purpose to be sent into the world, because infinitely approved by the Divine justice. Before the foundation of the world] Before the law was given, or any sacrifice prescribed by it. Its whole sacrificial system was appointed in reference to this foreappointed Lamb, and consequently from him derived all its significance and virtue. The phrase katabolh kosmou, foundation of the world, occurs often in the New Testament, and is supposed by some learned men and good critics to signify the commencement of the Jewish state. Perhaps it may have this meaning in Matt. xiii. 35; Luke xi. 50; Eph. i. 4; Heb. iv. 3; ix. 26. But if we take it here in its common signification, the creation of universal nature, then it shows that God, foreseeing the fall and ruin of man, appointed the remedy that was to cure the disease. It may here have a reference to the opinion of the Jewish doctors, who maintain that seven things existed before the creation of the world, one of which was the Messiah.
Last times] The Gospel dispensation, called the last times, as we have often seen, because never to be succeeded by any other.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 20. Who verily was foreordained , etc.] Or foreknown; that is, by God; and which intends, not barely his prescience of Christ, of what he should be, do, and suffer; but such a previous knowledge of him, which is joined with love and affection to him; not merely as his own Son, and the express image of his person, but as Mediator; and whom he loved before the world was, and with a love of complacency and delight, and which will last for ever. It includes the choice of him as the head of the election, and the pre-ordination of his human nature, to the grace of union to his divine Person, and the pre-appointment of him to various things. The Syriac version adds, to this; that is, to be the lamb for a sacrifice, to be a propitiation for the sins of his people, to be the Saviour and Redeemer of them by his precious blood. The allusion is to the taking of the passover lamb from the sheep, or from the goats, and keeping it separate, from the tenth to the fourteenth day of the month, before it was slain; so Christ, as man, was chosen out from among the people; and as Joseph's antitype was separated from his brethren, and that before the foundation of the world ; for all God's decrees and appointments, relating either to Christ, or his people, are eternal; no new thoughts, counsels, and resolutions, are taken up by him in time. The affair of redemption by Christ is no new thing; the scheme of it was drawn in eternity; the persons to be redeemed were fixed on; the Redeemer was appointed in the council and covenant of peace; and even the very Gospel which proclaims it was ordained before the world, for our glory. A Saviour was provided before sin was committed, and the method of man's recovery was settled before his ruin took place; and which was done without any regard to the works and merits of men, but is wholly owing to the free and sovereign grace of God, and to his everlasting love, both to the Redeemer and the redeemed. The Jews reckon the name of the Messiah among the seven things that were created before the world was; in proof of which they mention, ( Psalm 72:17) but was manifest in these last times for you; he was before, he existed from everlasting; he lay in the bosom of his Father from all eternity: and was veiled and hid under the shadows of the ceremonial law, during the legal dispensation; but in the fulness of time was manifest in the flesh, and more clearly revealed in the Gospel, and to the souls of men; his manifestation in human nature is principally intended, and which was in the last times of the legal dispensation, at the end of the Jewish world or state, when a new world, or the world to come, took place. It is a rule with the Jews f37 , that whenever the last days or times are mentioned, the times of the Messiah are designed: and this manifestation of Christ was for the sake of some particular persons, even for all God's elect, whether among Jews or Gentiles, and who are described in the following verse. The Alexandrian copy reads, for us; and the Ethiopic version, for him.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 17-25 - Holy confidence in God as a Father, and awful fear of him as a Judge agree together; and to regard God always as a Judge, makes him dear to us as a Father. If believers do evil, God will visit them with corrections. Then, let Christians not doubt God's faithfulness to his promises, nor give way to enslaving dread of his wrath, but let the reverence his holiness. The fearless professor is defenceless, an Satan takes him captive at his will; the desponding professor has n heart to avail himself of his advantages, and is easily brought to surrender. The price paid for man's redemption was the precious bloo of Christ. Not only openly wicked, but unprofitable conversation i highly dangerous, though it may plead custom. It is folly to resolve, will live and die in such a way, because my forefathers did so. God ha purposes of special favour toward his people, long before he mad manifest such grace unto them. But the clearness of light, the support of faith, the power of ordinances, are all much greater since Chris came upon earth, than they were before. The comfort is, that being by faith made one with Christ, his present glory is an assurance tha where he is we shall be also, Joh 14:3. The soul must be purified before it can give up its own desires and indulgences. And the word of God planted in the heart by the Holy Ghost, is a means of spiritual life, stirring up to our duty, working a total change in the dispositions and affections of the soul, till it brings to eterna life. In contrast with the excellence of the renewed spiritual man, a born again, observe the vanity of the natural man. In his life, and in his fall, he is like grass, the flower of grass, which soon withers an dies away. We should hear, and thus receive and love, the holy, livin word, and rather hazard all than lose it; and we must banish all othe things from the place due to it. We should lodge it in our hearts a our only treasures here, and the certain pledge of the treasure of glory laid up for believers in heaven __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
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Vincent's NT Word Studies
20. Foreordained (proegnwsmenou). Lit., and better, foreknown, as Rev. Manifested (fanerwqentov). Observe the difference in tense.
Foreknown is the perfect participle, has been known from all eternity down to the present: "in reference to the place held and continuing to be held by Christ in the divine mind" (Salmond). Manifested is the aorist participle, pointing to a definite act at a given time.
In these last times (ep escatou twn cronwn). Lit., as Rev., at the end of the times.
