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That the trial of your faith; i.e. your faith when tried. He compares the faith of the saints with gold, and argues from the less to the greater: q.d. If men do so far esteem their gold, that they will make the excellency and preciousness of it appear by trying it in the fire, which purgeth away the dross, and discovers the goodness of the metal; no wonder if God will have the faith of the saints (more precious to him than gold is to men) tried by afflictions, that the excellency of it may more fully be discovered.
Being much more precious than of gold; i.e. than the trial of gold; or gold tried, compared with faith tried.
That perisheth; is worn away, and consumed by use, as many particles of it likewise may be in the very trial of it, 1Pe_1:18; whereas faith is not consumed nor wasted, but increased by being used, and made more conspicuous by being tried.
Might be found unto praise and honour and glory; i.e. may be found to be, or to have turned, to praise, &c., the dignity of it being by that means evidenced. These several words show whither present trials tend, and in what they issue; they may be reproachful and ignominious now, Heb_12:2, but they end in glory. We need not be critical about the difference of these three words, praise, honour, and glory, which may be synonymous expressions (by way of amplification) of the same thing, yet they are mentioned distinctly with relation to believers elsewhere; praise, 1Co_4:5, honour, 1Sa_2:30 Joh_12:26, glory, as well as honour, Rom_2:10.
At the appearing of Jesus Christ; i.e. at the day of judgment, frequently so called, as 1Pe_1:13 5:4 Col_3:4 2Th_1:7. Christ’s glory is at present hid and obscured, while he is instructing his elect, and training them up unto patience, and defers his judging of his enemies; but at last it will be fully manifested in the face of the world, when he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him, &c., Rev_1:7.