ACC ~ 1 Peter 2 v18

GOOD QUALITIES FOR THOSE IN AUTHORITY. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: Impartiality, patience and kindness are very appropriate qualities for a master to possess. THE TEACHER 3.11.74.

OUT OF RESPECT. ANDREAS: The person who says that servants ought to obey their masters out of abject fear is mad and ought to be regarded as a dumb animal, for the fear which they ought to have is based on knowledge and reason and is properly known as respect. For the servant who fears his master for Christ’s sake and because of his teaching will submit to him out of respect. … And there is another aspect to this, for Peter is also telling women to respect their husbands in godly fear, for that is fully consonant with the Holy Scriptures. CATENA.

RESPECT BASED ON CONSCIENCE. OECUMENIUS: The fear which is spoken of here is something which comes as the result of knowledge and conscience. It is not some wild emotion produced by the unknown. It is the same kind of fear by which we come into the presence of God, the perfect fear with which we approach Christ. COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER.

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