Which (ην). Which hope. What would life be without this blessed hope based on Christ as our Redeemer?

As an anchor …

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul. Hope accomplishes for the soul the same thing that an anchor does for a ship. It makes it fir…

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul.—A beautiful image, introduced for a moment only to set forth the security of…

Sailors throw their anchors downwards; we throw ours upwards.

Their anchor goes within the veil of the waters into the depths of the sea; our…

While the metaphor of the anchor is widely used in antiquity, it occurs only here in the NT. A ship firmly anchored is safe from idle drifting. Its…

As an anchor, and so on. It is a striking likeness when he compares faith leaning on God’s word to an anchor. For undoubtedly, as…

Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul
This world is as a sea; the church in it, and so every believer, is as …

The hope referred to here is a confident expectation of good things promised, an expectation that comes through those promises and is accompanied b…

Previously, the Apostle showed why he had confidence in them: because of the good they performed. Here, he shows that same confidence based on the …