1 Peter 2:15

For so is the will of God Better, for thus it is the will of God. This was to be the chief, if not the only, apologiaof Christians to the charges brought against them. They were accused of being evil-doers. They were to be conspicuous for well-doing. In the Greek for "put to silence" we have the word used in Matthew 22:12; Matthew 22:34; Mark 1:25; Mark 4:39, the primary meaning of which was "to enforce silence by a gag or muzzle." The word "ignorance," used elsewhere in the New Testament only in 1 Corinthians 15:34, implies something more than a mere ignorance of facts. One might almost describe it as a settled incapacity for knowing and judging rightly. The "foolish men" are the accusers and slanderers of 1 Peter 2:12 rather than the official authorities of 1 Peter 2:13-14.