ACC ~ 1 Peter 2 v1

BE BORN AGAIN. DIDYMUS THE BLIND: This verse upsets the heretics, who like to think that natures are good or bad in themselves and therefore cannot be changed. But what Peter says is fully in line with the words of Jesus: “You must be born again.” COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER.

LAY ASIDE MALICE. HILARY OF ARLES: As you have been born again by the Word of the living God, lay aside all malice, for an infant has no malice in him. INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER.

ACT LIKE CHILDREN OF GOD. BEDE: Peter says that now that you have been born again and have become children of God through baptism, you ought to become like newborn children in the innocency of your life and behavior. ON 1 PETER.

BORN TO AN INCORRUPTIBLE LIFE. OECUMENIUS: These few words say a great deal, for it is unworthy of those who have been born again to an incorruptible life to be ensnared by evil and to prefer things which have no existence to that which truly exists. For evil is not a substance but merely clings to substances as if it were part of them. Peter says that believers ought to be immune to all deceit, pretense, envy and disparagement. Deceit and pretence are the exact opposite of the truth which was preached to you. If envy and disparagement find a home inside you, who are bound by the tie of brotherly love, how will you be able to bear the attacks of the heretics? COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER.

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