1 Peter 2:22 (WEB)
who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
Fathers and councils · 26
Origen
“For it is distinctly clear to us that “He did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth; and as one who knew no sin,” God delivered Him up as pure for all who had sinned.” — editor's note: [1 Pet. ii. 22; 2 Cor. v. 21. S.]
Read the whole comment- Origen, Against Celsus IV.15Book IV
“But He did not, I imagine, undergo any change from “good to evil,” for “He did no sin;” nor from “virtue to vice,” for “He knew no sin.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Pet. ii. 22.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…which is truly passion, which is a diseased condition of the will, He was not a partaker; for it says “He did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth”; but the peculiar attributes of our nature, which, by a kind of customary abuse of terms, are called by the same name of “passion,”—of these, we confess, the…” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 22.
Read the whole comment““He did no sin,” it says, “neither was guile found in his mouth.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 22.
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Jerome
“But if there israshness in professing to copy the virtues of our Lord, he does not abide in Christ, for he does not walk as did Christ.“He did not sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: when he was reviled, he reviled not again, and as a lamb is dumb before its shearer, so opened he not his mouth.”” — editor's note: 1 Peter ii. 22.
Read the whole comment“For to have all and lack nothing is the virtue of Him “Who did no sin; neither was guile found in His mouth; Who, when He was reviled, reviled not again;” Who, confident in the consciousness of virtue, said,…” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 22.
Read the whole comment““The dog is turned to his own vomit again and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 22.
Read the whole comment“Sinlessness is made a characteristic of Christ, “who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 22.
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Tertullian
“On the other hand, Christ, who spoke not guile from His mouth, and who exhibited all righteousness and humility, not only (as we have above recorded it predicted of Him) was not exposed to that kind of death for his own…” — editor's note: See 1 Pet. ii. 22 with Isa. liii. 9.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“For those men died for their own sins, but Christ for the sins of others; for He did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 22, quoted from Isa. liii. 9.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XI.13Conference XI
“For the true Son of God “who did no sin neither was guile found in His mouth,” could not feel that servile fear of punishment.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 22.
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Augustine of Hippo
“The law of the Lord, therefore, is Himself who came to fulfil the law, not to destroy it; an undefiled law, “Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth,” not oppressing souls with the yoke of bondage, but converting them to imitate Him in liberty.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 22.
Read the whole comment““Blessed are the pure in heart;” imitate Him, “Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth.”” — editor's note: 1 Peter ii. 22
Read the whole comment“In the first place God Himself, Christ, exhorteth us, of whom the Apostle Peter said, “Christ hath suffered for us, leaving you an example that ye should follow His steps, who did no sin, neither was guile, found in His mouth.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21, 22.
Read the whole comment“…of the flesh and deadly pleasure, and whom His Mother nourished in her womb without sin, and “Who did no sin, neither was deceit found in His Mouth.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 22.
Read the whole comment“…in His mouth; who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered wrong, He threatened not, but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21–23.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…not threaten, being reviled, we should not revile again, but should bless them that curse, and in everything commit ourselves to God who judgeth righteously.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21–23
Read the whole comment“…sun, defiled by being made known in the body; on the contrary, being incorruptible, He quickened and cleansed the body also, which was in itself mortal: “who did,” for so it says, “no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 22.
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John Chrysostom
“For “He did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth” ( 1 Pet. ii. 22 ); as He also says in the Gospels, “The Prince of the world cometh and hath nothing in Me.” ( John xiv. 30.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For, saith Peter, “He did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth.” ( 1 Pet. ii. 22.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For if He “did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth” ( 1 Pet. ii. 22 ), how could the Apostles be reckoned equal to Him?” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
“It follows that He took our flesh with its natural afflictions, but “did no sin.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 22.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“…deceit found in His mouth; who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, threatened not, but gave Himself up to him that judged Him unjustly.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21–23, with a singular departure from the received text.
Read the whole comment“In the Epistle of Peter to them of Pontus: “For Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example, that ye may follow His steps; who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth; who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, threatened not, but gave Himself up to him that judgeth unrighteously.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21–23.
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Ambrose of Milan
“But they are unable to show us this, and demand our authority from us, namely, that we should show by texts that the Holy Spirit has not sinned, as it is said of the Son that He did no sin.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 22.
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Leo the Great
“Who Himself bare our sins in His body on the tree, that being dead to sins, we may live to righteousness.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. ii. 21–24: notice the reading of the Vulgate indicanti se iniuste for the correct τῷ κρίνοντι δικαίως (namely God).
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Cross-references · 20
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
Cited together in Against Eunomius VI.3.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XI.13.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 26.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 26.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 26.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 26.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 26.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in Letters Letter 17.
Cited together in Letters Letter 261.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 26.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 26.
Cited together in Against Celsus I.69 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Letters Letter 261.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.15 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Letters Letter 261 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Homilies on John Homily 26.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 64.