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6. κύριον καλοῦσα. The only passage where Sarah is actually described as calling Abraham her “lord” is in Gen 18:12, but St Peter is referring to her habitual attitude towards Abraham.
ἧς ἐγενήθητε τέκνα. Those who regard the epistle as addressed to Jewish readers explain ἐγενήθητε to mean whose true daughters you proved yourselves; but the words are much more forcible if addressed to Gentiles. Just as St Paul describes the Gentiles as becoming true sons of Abraham by sharing his faith, so St Peter describes Gentile women as having become true daughters of Sarah by their admission into the new covenant people of God, cf. Gal 3:29; Rom 4:11.
ἀγαθοποιοῦσαι κ.τ.λ. These words are generally connected with ἐγενήθητε if (or so long as) ye do well. But if Gentile women are addressed they did not become daughters of Sarah by doing well.
The R.V. margin refers them to αἱ ἅγιαι γυναῖκες and treats the passage about “Sarah—whose daughters ye became” as a parenthesis. Holy women of old adorned themselves by submitting to their husbands, by well-doing and by tranquillity.
πτόησιν. R.V. text “put in fear by any terror” (objective acc.) but R.V. margin “afraid with” (cognate acc.). The substantive occurs only in Pro 3:25 “be not afraid of sudden fear,” but the verb is frequently used in the LXX. of alarm or panic. So it is used in Luk 21:9; Luk 24:37. Here it means not interrupting the quiet discharge of home duties by any excitement or panic.