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When the chief Shepherd shall be manifested (phanerōthentos tou archipoimenos). Genitive absolute with first aorist passive participle of phaneroō, to manifest, and genitive of archipoimēn, a compound (archi, poimēn) after analogy of archiereus, here only in N.T., but in Testam. of Twelve Patrs. (Judges 8) and on a piece of wood around an Egyptian mummy and also on a papyrus a.d. 338 (Deissmann, Light, etc., p. 100). See Heb 13:20 for ho poimēn ho megas (the Shepherd the great).
Ye shall receive (komieisthe). Future of komizō (1Pe 1:9, which see).
The crown of glory that fadeth not away (ton amarantinon tēs doxēs stephanon). For “crown” (stephanos) see Jam 1:12; 1Co 9:25; 2Ti 4:8; Rev 2:10; Rev 3:10; Rev 4:4. In the Gospels it is used only of the crown of thorns, but Jesus is crowned with glory and honor (Heb 2:9). In all these passages it is the crown of victory as it is here. See 1Pe 1:4 for amarantos, unfading. Amarantinos is made from that word as the name of a flower amaranth (so called because it never withers and revives if moistened with water and so used as a symbol of immortality), “composed of amaranth” or “amarantine,” “the amarantine (unfading) crown of glory.”