ACC ~ 1 Peter 1 v6

IN SUFFERING YOU GIVE BIRTH. ORIGEN: Read “grieve” in this verse in the sense of “suffer,” as in “in grief you shall bring forth children.” For a woman experiences grief not in bearing children but rather in suffering before birth. EXHORTATION TO MARTYRDOM 39.

PERSEVERANCE TO THE END. DIDYMUS THE BLIND: Those who are afflicted in various ways because of Christ and who persevere to the end have their faith tested and proved. They ought therefore to rejoice, even if some of their labor appears to be involuntary. Peter calls this kind of labor grief, a word which he uses in one of the two meanings described by the apostle Paul, who said that there is one grief which leads to death and another which leads to repentance. Obviously it is the second of these which is meant here. COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER.

RELIEF IS NEAR. ANDREAS: Right now we have to suffer for the sake of the preaching, but relief for those who toil is near. CATENA.

TRIALS FOR A TIME. BEDE: Peter says that we must still suffer for a little while, because it is only through the sadness of the present age and its afflictions that it is possible to reach the joys of eternity. He stresses the fact that this is only “for a little while,” because once we have entered our eternal reward, the years we spent suffering here below will seem like no time at all. ON 1 PETER.

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