Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
If any man speaketh (ei tiv lalei). Condition of first class, assumed as a fact.
Speaking as it were oracles of God (wv logia qeou). No predicate in this conclusion of the condition. For logia qeou see Acts 7:38 (Mosaic law); Romans 3:2 (the Old Testament); Hebrews 5:12 (the substance of Christian teaching), here of the utterances of God through Christian teachers. Logion (old word) is a diminutive of logov (speech, word). It can be construed here as nominative or as accusative. The verb has to be supplied.
If any one ministereth (ei tiv diakonei). First-class condition again. See Acts 6:2-4 for the twofold division of service involved here.
Which God supplieth (hv xorhgei o qeov). Ablative case (hv) of the relative attracted from the accusative hn, object of xorhgei (present active indicative of xorhgew, old verb, to supply from xorhgov, chorus leader, in N.T. only here and II Corinthians 9:10). Peter has the compound epixorhgew in II Peter 1:5, II Peter 1:11. God is the supplier of strength.
That God may be glorified (ina docazhtai o qeov). Purpose clause with ina and the present passive subjunctive of docazw. See John 15:8.
Whose is (w estin). "To whom (dative) is," that is to Jesus Christ the immediate antecedent, but in Romans 16:27; Judges 1:25 the doxology is to God through Christ. For other doxologies see I Peter 5:11; II Peter 3:18; Galatians 1:5; Romans 9:5; Romans 11:36; Philippians 4:20; Ephesians 3:21; I Timothy 1:17; I Timothy 6:16; II Timothy 4:18; Hebrews 13:21; Revelation 1:6; Revelation 5:13; Revelation 7:12. The others addressed to Christ are II Peter 3:18; II Timothy 4:18; Revelation 1:6.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Peter 4:11:
Acts 7:38
Romans 3:2
2 Corinthians 9:10
Hebrews 5:12
1 Peter 5:11
2 Peter 1:5
Revelation 1:6
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