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1Pe 4:14. Εἰ ὀνειὸίζεσθε ἐν ὁνόματι Χριστοῦ, if ye are reproached in the name of Christ) The Gentiles thought it a reproach if they called any one a Christian: 1Pe 4:16.-τὸ τῆς δόξης καὶ τὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ Πνεῦμα, the Spirit of glory and of God) The same Spirit which was on Christ: Luk 4:18. He is here called the Spirit of glory, overcoming all the reproaches of the world, and the Spirit of God, whose Son is Jesus Christ. The abstract, glory, is put for the concrete; as 2Pe 1:17; 2Pe 1:3-4. The article τὸ is with great force put twice, as Apocalypse, Rev 21:6. And glory may be taken so as to be ἕν διὰ δυοῖν, Glory and God, that is, the God of glory, or as an appellation of Christ (comp. 1Pe 4:16, as a Christian, and 1Pe 4:13; Jam 2:1, note); and it may be implied that the Spirit of Christ is also the Spirit of God the Father. The faithful, deeply feeling joy, experience the same Spirit sometimes as the Spirit of Glory and sometimes as the Spirit of God, in a different sense, the difference of which the Spirit itself reveals.-ἐφʼ ὑμᾶς ἀναπαύεται, rests upon you) That spirit is upon the righteous even before they suffer reproaches; but then they are more confirmed on this very account, and receive more abundant consolations of the Spirit: Num 11:25-26, ἐπανεπαύσατο ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς τὸ πνεῦμα, the spirit rested upon them.-βλασφημεῖται, He is evil spoken of) namely, Christ.-δοξάζεται, He is glorified) in the midst of your reproaches, 1Pe 4:16. He writes from his own experience. Comp. Act 5:41.