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1 and 2 Peter: Volume 20
Author(s): Robert Leighton (Author), Griffith Thomas (Author), J. I. Packer (Introduction, Series Editor), Alister McGrath (Series Editor)
- Publisher: Crossway
- Publication Date: 1 April 1999
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1581340648
- ISBN-13: 9781581340648
Book Description
Original works by godly writers, tailored for the understanding of today’s reader
For hundreds of years Christendom has been blessed with Bible commentaries written by great men of God who were highly respected for their godly walk and their insight into spiritual truth. The Crossway Classic Commentaries series, carefully adapted for maximum understanding and usefulness, presents the very best work on individual Bible books for today’s believers.
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, who suffered unjustly, did. He exhorts them to live a holy life that they might be a witness and evangelize the world through their faithfulness. In his second epistle, Peter warns against the 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 be exposed.
Robert Leighton and Griffith Thomas’s exploration of 1 and 2 Peter’s key passages offers resounding wisdom that will both instruct and encourage all Christians.
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About the Author
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.
Alister McGrath (PhD, University of Oxford) is the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford, president of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, and senior research fellow at Harris Manchester College in Oxford. He is also a noted author and coeditor of Crossway’s Classic Commentaries series.
J. I. Packer (1926–2020) served as the Board of Governors’ Professor of Theology at Regent College. He authored numerous books, including the classic bestseller Knowing God. Packer also served as general editor for the English Standard Version Bible and as theological editor for the ESV Study Bible.
