 | William J. Barbee - 1861 - 432 pages
...the righteousness which is by faith." HEB. xi. 7. The Testimony of Peter. — " The long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was preparing,...wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water." 1 PET. iii. 20. " For, if God spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1861 - 792 pages
...death, which must have been the case, if Christ after his death, went and preached to them,) but "in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water." All the calls of Noah, every stroke upon the ark, were so many calls of Christ to a rebellious and... | |
 | Thomas Goodwin - 1863 - 544 pages
...of regeneration,' whereof baptism is the seal : 1 Pet. iii. 20, 21, ' As in the days of Noah, when the ark was preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. So the like figure unto it, viz., baptism, doth now save us (not the putting away the filth of the... | |
 | Thomas Goodwin - 1863 - 546 pages
...of regeneration,' whereof baptism is the seal : 1 Pet. iii. 20, 21, ' As in the days of Noah, when the ark was preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. So the like figure unto it, viz., baptism, doth now save us (not the putting away the filth of the... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1869 - 356 pages
...the baptism of John. In the first place, Peter says it was not — in these words, " which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of...wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water, whose antitype,1 baptism, doth now also save us (not the putting away the filth of the flesh, but the... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1870 - 752 pages
...quickened by the Spirit ; by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of...wherein few, that is eight souls, were saved by water." The common view of this passage is that Christ, by his Spirit in Noah, " a preacher of righteousness,"... | |
 | Erasmus Manford - 1870 - 424 pages
...quickened by the spirit : by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison : which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of...wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water." 1 Peter iii. 18-20. This passage speaks of "spirits in prison." Does the gentleman admit that there... | |
 | Erasmus Manford - 1870 - 448 pages
...(spirit) he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, which (spirits) sometimes were disobedient, (as) when once the long-suffering of God waited in the...wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water." 1 Peter iii. 18-20. " For this cause was the Gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they... | |
 | William Kelly - 1870 - 608 pages
...So he says these very spirits which are spoken of were "once disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was...preparing, wherein few, that is eight souls, were saved through water." It is not a description of all that died in unbelief, but of a generation favoured... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1872 - 446 pages
...spirits in prison, which were aforetime disobedient when the long-suffering of God was waiting in the days of Noah while the ark was preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water" (1 Pet. iii. 18 — 20). The passage wears an apocryphal air. However, here too- the logical law of... | |
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Spirit : by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison ; which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the Ark was preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water... 
