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by preserving an equality of duties, or by not nicely weighing tlieir inequality.
10. Kutiug, even as) Understand shortly afterwards, so. — ai /ro, that (gift) itself) without striving after another. — nomXr,g, [“ manifold”] varied) distributing various gifts, with reference to the speech, or ministering. See next verse.
11. 'ng \6yiu ©sou, as it were oracles) that is, let him speak the things which God supplies , at the present time. — ug e% iayvog, as out of the strength) with activity. — iv eras/, in all things) for all men and all things are of Him, and through Him, and to Him. — w, to whom) To God. There is a similar expression respecting Christ, 2 Pet. iii. 18. — i) bb%u, the glory) for instance, of wisdom, which utters the oracles. — ro Tip drag , the strength) which gives power to the righteous. The same doxology occurs, ch. v. 11.
12. ’A yunriroi, /xj? beloved , do not think it strange) He ex-
horts them with love. A taste of the Divine power, which the pre- ceding verses relate, forbids us to be offended as by a strange thing. For adversities to befall the saints is, in one point of view, something strange ; for they are sons of God : in another, it is not strange ; for it is adapted to them, for their purification [lit. seasoning ]. — wpaffei, the burning) ch. i. 7. — rrpbg Keipac/mov) which is not except for trial. —
to you) The dativus commodi. — yivoffsvri , when it takes place) by Divine counsel. — <njfj,(3ulvovrogy happening) accidentally.
13. K«0o, even as) Glory answers to the measure of sufferings, but much more abundantly. — xoivuvsTrs, ye are partakers) willingly. — <ra^/xa(r/, in the sufferings) ver. 1. — yaipsrs, ha , rejoice , that) That , here, is more than if he had said or/, because. By joy and desire we attain to joy and gladness. Comp. 7va, that , John viii. 56. The re- ward of joyful patience is had regard to here. — dyaWid^svoi, with exulting joy) then free from all suffering.
14. E / bveiblfycds sv ovo'/xar; xpiarov, if ye are reproached in the name of Christ) The Gentiles thought it a reproach if they called any one a Christian : ver. 16. — ro rr^g bb^r,g %ai ro rou ©goD n^gD/^a, the Spirit of glory and of God) The same Spirit which was on Christ : Lukeiv. 18. He is here called the Spirit of glory , overcoming all the reproaches of the world, and the Spirit of God , whose Son is J esus Christ. The abstract, glory , is put for the concrete ; as 2 Pet. i. 17, 3, 4. The article rb is with great force put twice, as Apocalypse xxi. 6. And glory may be taken so as to be h bid bvoTv , Glory and God , that is, the God of glory , or as an appellation of Christ (comp, ver. 16, as a Christian , and ver. 13; James ii. 1, note) ; and it mav
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