Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Peter 4:11 - 4:11

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Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Peter 4:11 - 4:11


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If any man speaketh (ei tis lalei). Condition of first class, assumed as a fact.

Speaking as it were oracles of God (hōs logia theou). No predicate in this conclusion of the condition. For logia theou see Act 7:38 (Mosaic law); Rom 3:2 (the Old Testament); Heb 5:12 (the substance of Christian teaching), here of the utterances of God through Christian teachers. Logion (old word) is a diminutive of logos (speech, word). It can be construed here as nominative or as accusative. The verb has to be supplied.

If any one ministereth (ei tis diakonei). First-class condition again. See Act 6:2-4 for the twofold division of service involved here.

Which God supplieth (hēs chorēgei ho theos). Ablative case (hēs) of the relative attracted from the accusative hēn, object of chorēgei (present active indicative of chorēgeō, old verb, to supply from chorēgos, chorus leader, in N.T. only here and 2Co 9:10). Peter has the compound epichorēgeō in 2Pe 1:5, 2Pe 1:11. God is the supplier of strength.

That God may be glorified (hina doxazētai ho theos). Purpose clause with hina and the present passive subjunctive of doxazō. See Joh 15:8.

Whose is (hōi estin). “To whom (dative) is,” that is to Jesus Christ the immediate antecedent, but in Rom 16:27; Jud 1:25 the doxology is to God through Christ. For other doxologies see 1Pe 5:11; 2Pe 3:18; Gal 1:5; Rom 9:5; Rom 11:36; Phi 4:20; Eph 3:21; 1Ti 1:17; 1Ti 6:16; 2Ti 4:18; Heb 13:21; Rev 1:6; Rev 5:13; Rev 7:12. The others addressed to Christ are 2Pe 3:18; 2Ti 4:18; Rev 1:6.