1 Peter 3:21 (WEB)
This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
Catechism · 4
The Liturgy - Work of the Holy Trinity
“Thus the flood and Noah's ark prefigured salvation by Baptism,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Pet 3:21.
Sacred Scripture
“The Church, as early as apostolic times,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. I Cor 10:6, 11; Heb 10:1; l Pt 3:21.
Moral Conscience
“A good and pure conscience is enlightened by true faith, for charity proceeds at the same time "from a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Tim 5; cf. 8:9; 2 Tim 3; 1 Pet 3:21; Acts 24:16.
The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic
“According to another image dear to the Church Fathers, she is prefigured by Noah's ark, which alone saves from the flood.” — Catechism footnote: St. Augustine, Serm. 96, 7, 9: PL 38, 588; St. Ambrose, De virg. 18, 118: PL 16, 297B; cf. already 1 Pet 3:20-21.
Fathers and councils · 16
Augustine of Hippo
“Neither let me be deceived in them, nor deceive out of them.” — editor's note: Augustin is always careful to distinguish between the certain truths of faith and doctrine which all may know, and the mysteries of Scripture which all have…
Read the whole comment““This answer of a good conscience” did the Pharisees despise, and washed “that which was without;” within they continued full of pollution.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 20, 21.
Read the whole comment“If I may recall far more ancient times, our patriarch Noah was certainly even before that great deluge, and I might not undeservedly call him a prophet, forasmuch as the ark he made, in which he escaped with his family, was itself a prophecy of our times.” — editor's note: Heb. xi. 7; 1 Pet. iii. 20, 21.
Read the whole comment“Accordingly, we read in the Acts of the Apostles, “Purifying their hearts by faith;” and, says the blessed Peter in his epistle, “Even as baptism doth also now save us, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience.”” — editor's note: Literally, “questioning,” interrogatio, 1 Pet. iii. 21.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis II.5Book II
“Whereunto also baptism by a like figure now saves you.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 18–21.
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Cyprian of Carthage
““In the ark,” says he, “of Noah, few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water, as also baptism shall in like manner save you.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 20, 21.
Read the whole comment“Even as also the Apostle Peter laid down, saying, “Thus also shall baptism in like manner make you safe;” showing that as they who were not in the ark with Noah not only were not purged and saved by water, but at once perished in that deluge; so now also, whoever…” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 21.
Read the whole comment“…can be baptized; and said, “In the ark of Noah, few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water; the like figure where-unto even baptism shall save you;” proving and attesting that the one ark of Noah was a type of the one Church.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 20, 21.
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Jerome
“All such efforts are only of use when they are made within the church’s pale; we must celebrate the passover in the one house, we must enter the ark with Noah, we must take refuge from the fall of Jericho with the justified harlot, Rahab.” — editor's note: 1 Peter iii. 20, 21.
Read the whole comment“So too in the case of the ark which the apostle Peter interprets as a type of the church, Noah brings in for his three sons one wife apiece and not two.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. iii. 20, 21.
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Tertullian
“The “ring” also he is then wont to receive for the first time, wherewith, after being interrogated, he publicly seals the agreement of faith, and thus thenceforward feeds upon the “fatness” of the Lord’s body,—the Eucharist, to wit.” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Pet. iii. 21; and Hooker, Eccl. Pol., v. 63, 3.
Read the whole comment“For it is not the soul which is sanctified by the baptismal bath: its sanctification comes from the “answer.”” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Pet. iii. 21.
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Basil the Great
“And there is, as it were, a cleansing of the soul from the filth that has grown on it from the carnal mind, as it is written, “Thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.”” — editor's note: cf. 1 Pet. iii. 21.
Read the whole comment“His words are:—“The washing or water is a symbol of the cleaning of the soul which is washed clean of all filth that comes of wickedness; but none the less is it also by itself, to him who yields himself to the God-head of the adorable Trinity, through the power of the invocations, the origin and source of blessings.”” — editor's note: cf. 1 Pet. iii. 21.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Illumination is the splendour of souls, the conversion of the life, the question put to the Godward conscience.” — editor's note: This is the literal version of the passage, which is somewhat loosely quoted from 1 S. Peter iii. 21, where the A.V. renders “the answer of a good conscience…
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Clement of Alexandria
““By the resurrection,” it is said, “of Jesus Christ:” that, namely, which is effected in us by faith.” — editor's note: Ver. 21.
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Cross-references · 20
Cited together in The City of God XVIII.38.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 56.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 56.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 56.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 56.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 56.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 56 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §1794.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in Catechism §128.
Cited together in Catechism §128.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in Catechism §128.
Cited together in The City of God XVIII.38.