Crossway Classic Commentaries: 1 & 2 Peter
Overview
Addressed to persecuted believers, Peter’s first letter encourages them with the knowledge that it is possible to live victoriously in the midst of hostility—just as Christ did. He exhorts them to live a holy life, in order to evangelize the world through their faithfulness. In his second epistle, Peter warns against more subtle dangers from within the church—false teachers and errant doctrine. He also emphasizes the importance of scriptural knowledge, for only in understanding true doctrine will heresies be known and immoral behavior exposed.
Top Highlights
“Grace does not sit in judgment over those who have fallen but sits down with them and mourns with them.” (Page 140)
“The only true happiness, both of kings and their subjects, is to be God’s subjects.” (Page 118)
“in the practice of truth, we should agree as one person.” (Page 139)
“As the honor of a Christian’s state is far above these base desires, so the happiness of his state sets him above the need for the pleasures of sin.” (Page 111)
“For those with Christian hope, death is a messenger sent to bring them home to possess their inheritance.” (Page 20)
Product Details
- Title: Crossway Classic Commentaries: 1 & 2 Peter
- Authors: Robert Leighton and Griffith Thomas
- Publisher: Crossway
- Publication Date: 1999
- Pages: 287
About the Authors
Robert Leighton (1611–1684) was Archbishop of Glasgow and a Scottish Presbyterian minister. Spurgeon called Leighton’s commentary on 1 Peter “a true heavenly work.”
Griffith Thomas (1861–1924) was a leading evangelical writer and Anglican vicar of the central London parish of St. Paul’s at the turn of the twentieth century.