ACC ~ 1 Peter 1 v23

BIRTH FROM THE SPIRIT. DIDYMUS THE BLIND: Peter uses the words regeneration and restitution to signify the introduction of birth after the destruction of the first generation of mankind. For how could that not have been destroyed, seeing that it is corrupt, in order to make room for the incorruptible which is coming and which will remain forever? For there is a first birth, in the descent of Adam, which is mortal and therefore corruptible, but there is also a later birth which comes from the Spirit and the ever-living Word of God. COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER.

THE UNENDING WORD. ANDREAS: The Gospel says: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away, says the Lord Jesus Christ.” CATENA.

REDEMPTION AND BAPTISM. BEDE: Just as the gift of the Lord’s passion, by which we have been redeemed, is imperishable, so too is the sacrament of the sacred fontby which we have been born again. The two things are so intimately connected that it is impossible to be saved by one without the other. For just as the Lord, during the time of his incarnation, redeemed us all on a single occasion by the shedding of his blood, so we must now in our time become partakers of that regeneration by being born again through baptism. It is well said of this regeneration that it does not come from corruptible seed but operates by the word of the living and eternal God. ON 1 PETER.

THE SPIRIT’S PROMISE. ISHO’DAD OF MERV: Your birth is not human and is far removed from corruption and death, because the Holy Spirit is its mediator, and as John said, you have been born not of the will of man but of God. The living word is the Spirit’s promise of everlasting life. COMMENTARIES.

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