 | Thomas Belsham - 1817 - 384 pages
...iii. 1 9, 2O. " By which also he (Christ) went and preached unto the spirits in prison. Who some time were disobedient, when (once) the long-suffering of...in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing." - « " Apparet non de aeierna Christ! essentia apostolum disputare, sed de ejus notilia, quae omnibus... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1817 - 630 pages
...them, that dwell upon the earth ?" St. Peter informs us of "spirits in prison, which were formerly disobedient, when once the long-suffering • of God...in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing." And as our Lord himself proves, from the words of God to Moses, at the bush, that Abraham, Isaac, and... | |
 | Edward Atkyns Bray - 1818 - 458 pages
...towards their amendment. For, (as St. Peter tells us,) they were disobedient, when the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing ; which, by the best calculation that can be made from the sacred text, was no less than a hundred... | |
 | Stephen Addington - 1818 - 156 pages
...is the argument in favour of immersion taken froth those words 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 ; the like figure whereunto, even baptism, doth... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1819 - 558 pages
...being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit : by which also he went and preached" unto the spirits in prison ; which sometime were disobedient,...long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing; wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. The like figure whereunto,... | |
 | 1819 - 494 pages
...being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison : which sometime were disobedient,...long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by zoa/er." Now, of the meaning... | |
 | sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 484 pages
...wicked people before the flood, as appears from the following verse : Which sometime (says the Apostle) were disobedient when once the longsuffering of God...in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing. To show you how justly the phrase of preaching to them in prison, is applied to sinful men in the body,... | |
 | Johnson Grant - 1820 - 476 pages
...sanctioned an opinion which was erroneous. St. Peter writes, that our Lord, after his crucifixion, went and preached to -the spirits in prison, which...disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noahf. As to what is meant by his preaching' to them, it is foreign to the present argument... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1820 - 454 pages
...very obscure ; he records that "Jesus went and preached unto the spirits in prison, which sometimes were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing." This does not elucidate the subject. " While the ark was preparing," being... | |
 | 1820 - 336 pages
...preached unto the spirits in prison ; which some time were disobedient when once the long suffering qf God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water." On the above passage, there has been much... | |
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For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit : by which also He went and preached unto the spirits in prison ; which sometime were disobedient,... 
