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1 PETER CHAPTER 5
1Pe_5:1-4 The elders are exhorted to feed the flock of Christ
conscientiously, looking to the chief Shepherd for
a reward.
1Pe_5:5 The younger are required to submit to the elder, and
all to practise humility toward each other,
1Pe_5:6,7 with resignation to God,
1Pe_5:8,9 to be sober, watchful, and stedfast in the faith,
resisting the devil.
1Pe_5:10-14 The Epistle is concluded with a prayer and benediction.
The elders which are among you I exhort; viz. those that were such, not so much by age as by office, as appears by his exhorting them to feed the flock, 1Pe_5:2; he means the ordinary ministers of the churches among the believing Jews.
Who am also an elder: elder is a general name, comprehending under it even apostles themselves, who were elders, though every elder were not an apostle.
And a witness; either:
1. In his doctrine, in which he held forth Christ’s sufferings, whereof he had been an eye-witness, in which respect the apostles are often called witnesses, Luk_24:48 Act_1:8,22 2:32. Or:
2. In his example, in that he in suffering so much for Christ, did give an ample testimony to the reality of Christ’s sufferings, and that Christ had indeed suffered: or, both may well be comprehended.
The glory that shall be revealed; viz. at Christ’s last coming, 1Pe_1:5 4:13 Rom_8:17,18.