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If so be; this doth not imply a doubting, but a supposition, as was before observed, 1Pe_1:17.
Ye have tasted; not lightly tasted by a bare ineffectual knowledge, as Heb_6:4; but experienced and perceived by the taste of your spiritual palate; your spiritual sense, and ability to judge of spiritual things, being restored to you, with your new birth. He refers to Psa_34:8, and possibly to Isa_66:11.
The Lord; the Lord Jesus Christ, as appears by the next verse.
Is gracious; good, kind, or rather, sweet: the same word is applied to wine, Luk_5:39. The sense of the whole is: If ye have by faith received the gospel as glad tidings, and worthy of all acceptation, 1Ti_1:15, and therein perceived and experienced the sweetness of those consolations which are in Christ Jesus, Phi_2:1; or, which is the same, how sweet he is, who, in the preaching of the gospel, exhibits himself to your spiritual senses, to be fed upon and tasted by you.