Father Noel Alexandre's Literal Commentary on 1 Peter 1:3-9

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 Translated by Qwen. 1 Pet 1:3–4: The Blessing of Regeneration "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has regenerated us unto a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, unto an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you." We ought to give immortal thanks to God, to offer Him continually the sacrifice of praise, on account of His infinite goodness toward His elect. It belongs to the Eternal Father to choose the members of His Son, the adopted children who are co-heirs with the Only-Begotten. Let us seek no other reason for this election than mercy, whose greatness cannot be worthily expressed in human words. He who spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all. Us, unworthy sinners, His enemies, deserving of eternal punishments, He has regenerated through Baptism; and, the oldness which we had contracted from Adam in our first birth being abolished, He ...
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Father Antonio Mendoza's Commentary on 1 Corinthians 2:6-10

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1 Cor 2:6 We speak a higher and more profound wisdom, concerning the more secret and elevated mysteries of faith - namely, about the manner, counsel, and purpose of the incarnation and passion of the Son of God, concerning predestination and reprobation, concerning divine wisdom and power, concerning the manner of the processions of the most blessed Trinity, etc. We speak not among you (as you are still children who have need of milk or easy doctrine), but among the perfect or those more advanced in faith and virtues, who are capable of such higher doctrine. Let the preacher of the Gospel learn from this to accommodate the doctrine of his sermon to the understanding of his hearers.

We teach, I say, to the simple and the advanced according to their capacity, a wisdom not of this age, nor of those who hold the highest positions in this world, who are abolished from human memory in a moment of time. But we speak God's wisdom hidden in mystery - that is, that hidden wisdom which God from eternity had predestined for our glory. Which none of the princes of this age - the dynasties, magistrates - is believed to have glimpsed even from afar. For if by any means the chief priests, scribes, Pharisees, Pilate, Herod, and other leaders had fully comprehended and understood whatever fruit Christ's death was about to bring forth both in this mortal life and in the other eternal life, they would not indeed have so impiously crucified the Lord of glory.

1 Cor 2:7-8 I have said this doctrine was hidden, predestined from eternity. God decreed, I say, for our glory, that it should be unfolded to you in time, so that through it you might attain to that most exalted glory of adoption on earth and beatification in heaven. Which beatitude indeed, prepared for adopted children, is of such weight and such excellence that, as it is written in Isaiah 64:4, not only has no one seen or heard it, but neither has it entered into human hearts or come into their minds by natural powers - the force of the glory which God has prepared for those who love him. For these things are of a supernatural order - namely, this adoption and the fruits of adoption.

1 Cor 2:9-10 To the leaders of the world, as I said, this glory was hidden, which we too would be ignorant of unless God had revealed it to us through his Holy Spirit, so that we might teach it to you Corinthians and others. For the Holy Spirit of God searches all things, even the deep things of God - that is, the most hidden divine counsels, among which one is this: our adoption and glorification through Christ's death and merit. He searches, that is, intimately penetrates and perfectly knows them, as he is God.

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