1 Peter 3:11
Let him decline from evil, and do good: let him seek after peace and pursue it:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Declinet a malo, et faciat bonum : inquirat pacem, et sequatur eam :
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- ἐκκλινάτω δὲ ἀπὸ κακοῦ καὶ ποιησάτω ἀγαθόν, ζητησάτω εἰρήνην καὶ διωξάτω αὐτήν·
The Fathers on this verse
Tertullian On Monogamy, Chapter VI
These accordingly, I suppose, are they in whom my origin is counted. All others I ignore. And if I glance around at their examples, (examples) of some David heaping up marriages for himself even through sanguinary means, of some Solomon rich in wives as well as in other riches, you are bidden to “follow the better things;” and you have withal Joseph but once wedded, and on this score I venture to say better than his father; you have Moses, the intimate eye-witness of God; you have Aaron the chief priest. The second Moses, also, of the second People, who led our representatives into the (possession of) the promise of God, in whom the Name (of Jesus) was first inaugurated, was no digamist.
Rufinus A Commentary on the Apostles' Creed, Section 28
28. That He descended into hell is also evidently foretold in the Psalms, where it is said, “Thou hast brought Me also into the dust of the death.” And again, “What profit is there in my blood, when I shall have descended into corruption?” And again, “I descended into the deep mire, where there is no bottom.” Moreover, John says, “Art Thou He that shall come (into hell, without doubt), or do we look for another?” Whence also Peter says that “Christ being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in the Spirit which dwells in Him, descended to the spirits who were shut up in prison, who in the days of Noah believed not, to preach unto them;” where also what He did in hell is declared. …