ACC ~ 1 Peter 2 v21b

HIS GOODNESS BY NATURE, OURS BY GRACE. DIDYMUS THE BLIND: The praises referred to here are those of a person who is good, not by nature but by grace, and who invites us to join him in praising the One who is good by nature. COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER.

BY SUFFERING HIMSELF. AUGUSTINE: Christ taught you to suffer, and he did so by suffering himself. Words would not be enough unless example were added. And how, precisely did he teach us, brothers and sisters? He was hanging on the cross, and the Jews were raging … he was hanging there, yet at the same time he was healing them. SERMONS 284.6.

BEHOLD HIS EXAMPLE. ANDREAS: Having told servants to put up with unjust suffering, which was a bitter pill for them to swallow, Peter now comforts them by referring to Christ’s longsuffering. It is as if he were saying: “I am not trying to persuade you to put up with injustice simply by arguments. Rather stand back and look at your master as freemen in Christ, and you will be comforted.” CATENA.

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