...continuance of it that you now have. If you look into 1 Peter, 3 : 19, 20, you there find that Christ " went and preached unto the spirits in prison ; which sometime...when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah." The meaning of which is, that in the days before the flood, Christ by his Spirit strove...

...chiefly upon St. Peter, 1 Pet. ii. 5. " Noah, a preacher of righteousness," and I Pet. iii. 19, 20. " By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, which sometimes were disohedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noaht" As what...

...went thither ; or in which, at least, his soul was employed while it was there; being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit." " By which...spirits in prison, which sometime were disobedient." The interpretation of this whole passage turns upon the expression " Spirits in prison;" the sense...

...epistle of Peter iii, 18, 19 : " For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the spirit ; by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison," and in the apostles' creed, it is expressly said " He descended into hell." CONTENTS. VOL....

...surmised, and a great deal affirmed concerning I. Pet. 3. 18. 19. 20. " Christ was put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the spirit ; by which...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...

...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...prison, which sometime were disobedient, when once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah .while the ark was preparing, wherein eight souls...

...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 : who sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of...

...but quickened by the Spirit : 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison ; 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water....

...spirit, but moreover a declaration of the business upon which he went thither, " being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the spirit." " By which...preached unto the spirits in prison, which sometime were disobedieet." It is hardly necessary to mention that " spirits" here ean signify no other spirits than...

...commission was not the baptism of John. In the first place, St. Peter says it was not, in these words *, ** 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,...