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1. Ilatfav xax/av, all vice) II dffav, ndvra, ndtiag : he points out three kinds. Kax/ai', a faulty state of mind, as opposed to virtue. — navra doXov xa/ ■uKox.p/ffsig xa /' <p66vovg, all guile , and hypocrisies, and envyings) in actions. Guile wrongs ; hypocrisy deceives ; envy assails a neighbour : all these things are injurious to love , on which see ch. i. 22. — nd<rag TtaraXaX/ag, all detractions) in conversation.
2. 'ng dpny&wtjra, as new-born) who do nothing else, but only desire. The first age of the Church of the New Testament is marked out. — fiptpri, babes) who are free from all guile. — Xoyntbv) Derived from Xoyog, the Word , ch. i. 23. The milk of the Word is a periphrasis for the Word itself. Comp. Rom. xii. 1, note. — adoXov , without guile) The antithesis to guile in ver. 1. — yd Xa, milk) This is the same as that which is before called seed , ch. i. 23. — ha h avrOj augers s ig ffurripiav, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation) We are born again unto salvation , ch. i. 3, 5, 9 ; and we grow unto salvation , in this passage. The copies of greatest authority have long read, 1dg <fwrr)p/av : in the more recent ones, an hiatus has been introduced, the eye of one or two copyists having glided from sig to ump in the next verse. Peter had in his mind Ps. xxxiv., which in ver. 8, under those words which Peter repeats, holds out to us curripi av, salvation. TtvtiatfOt xal 7dsrs, on yjpy\6rlg 6 K vpiog. MAKAPI02 dvrtp, og sXm^si In avrov. 0 taste and see that the Lord is good : Blessed is the man that trusteth in Him. The first tastes of the goodness of God are afterwards followed by more full and happy experiences.
3. ’ Eyzvffatrh, ye have tasted) A taste excites the appetite.2 — or/, that) Ps. xxxiv. 8. Peter quotes the same Psalm in the next chapter. — yjr\6rbg, good) Therefore they, who are born again, are and ought to be like Him. — 6 K vpiog, the Lord) Hirt1, Christ, ver. 4 : Ps. xlvii. 6.
4. "O, whom) Apposition : whom , that is, the Lord , the Stone. — npoffspyo/xsvo/, approaching) of your own accord, through faith. — X/Qov, stone) In what manner He is regarded both by believers and unbe- lievers, is declared, ver. 6, 7. The name given to Peter by the
1 ABC Vulg. and almost all Versions, read tig oarYipiotv. Rec. Text, with inferior authorities, omits the words. — E.
2 Comp. Mai. iii. 10. — V. g.
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