Die Woord as maatstaf: die implikasie van Godspraak in 1 Petrus 4:11

Abstract

The Word as norm, the implication of oracle in 1 Peter 4:11 In 1 Peter the author uses the rare oracular word λόγια followed by the added θeοῦ to refer to the collective oracles of God, his revealed words. For all practical purposes: sacred Scripture. He suggests that these divine oracles should set the standard for all Christian speech and proclamation. The seriousness of these words is reinforced by an eschatological setting that emphasizes God as the final judge of a temporal world that is drawing to its close. The revelatory character that is inherent to λόγια and its divine origin is reinforced by θeοῦ. In the mind of 1 Peter it is the reality of revelation from above that Christians draw from and against which all human speech and proclamation should be measured, particularly in the Church.