The writer, himself a presbyter, gives wise and loving counsel to his fellow-presbyters and to their flocks. Sincerity, humility, and love are to mark all their intercourse, and continual subjection to the will of God. If the author is the apostle Peter we cannot fail to trace the extreme appropriat... [ Continue Reading ]
Further counsels to watchfulness, and to sympathy, closing with a renewed promise of God's reward, and a short doxology. 1 PETER 5:8. SEEKING WHOM: the rendering seeking someone to devour, founded on a better reading, is preferable. It is more in accord with the figure and less suggestive of the a... [ Continue Reading ]
Mention of the scribe or amanuensis and closing salutations. These words may (as sometimes with Paul) have been in the author's own hand. He probably calls the letter brief in view of what he had it in his heart to say. Silvanus can supplement the written message, and they may trust him as one who k... [ Continue Reading ]