1 Peter 1:20 BSB — MannaFest

1 Peter 1:20

He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of the times for your sake,

KJV

Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Who verily was foreordained - Προεγνωσμενου· 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 καταβολη κοσμου, 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.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Peter's language in the history corresponds with this here: an undesigned coincidence and mark of genuineness. Redemption was no afterthought, or remedy of an unforeseen evil, devised at the time of its arising. God's foreordaining of the Redeemer refutes the slander that, on the Christian theory, there is a period of four thousand years of nothing but an incensed God.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
προεγνωσμένου	proegnōsmenou	foreknown	G4267 →
μὲν	men	indeed	G3303 →
πρὸ	pro	before	G4253 →
καταβολῆς	katabolēs	[the] foundation	G2602 →
κόσμου,	kosmou	[the] world,	G2889 →
φανερωθέντος	phanerōthentos	having been revealed	G5319 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
ἐπ᾽	ep᾽	in	G1909 →
ἐσχάτου	eschatou	[this] last	G2078 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
χρόνων	chronōn	times	G5550 →
δι᾽	di᾽	for the sake of	G1223 →
ὑμᾶς	humas	you	G4771 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 13:8
And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was…
leads to
- Matthew 25:34
  Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- 1 Peter 1:19–20
  but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
- Ephesians 1:4
  For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
- Revelation 17:8
  The beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose…
- Revelation 3:5
  Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His…
Through
Ephesians 1:4
For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
leads to
- 2 Timothy 1:9
  He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
- Romans 8:28–30
  And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
- Ephesians 2:10
  For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.