Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
God's eternal foreordination of Christ's redeeming sacrifice, and completion of it in these last times for us, are an additional obligation on us to our maintaining a holy walk, considering how great things have been thus done for us. Peter's language in the history corresponds with this here: an undesigned coincidence and mark of genuineness. Redemption was no afterthought, or remedy of an unforeseen evil, devised at the time of its arising. God's foreordaining of the Redeemer refutes the slander that, on the Christian theory, there is a period of four thousand years of nothing but an incensed God. God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4).
manifest—in His incarnation in the fulness of the time. He existed from eternity before He was manifested.
in these last times— I Corinthians 10:11, "the ends of the world." This last dispensation, made up of "times" marked by great changes, but still retaining a general unity, stretches from Christ's ascension to His coming to judgment.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Peter 1:20:
Isaiah 42:1
Hebrews 9:26
1 Peter 1:2
1 Peter 1:19
Revelation 13:8
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