Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Who am a fellow-elder (o sunpresbuterov). Earliest use of this compound in an inscription of BC 120 for fellow-elders (alderman) in a town, here only in N.T., in eccles. writers. For the word presbuterov in the technical sense of officers in a Christian church (like elder in the local synagogues of the Jews) see Acts 11:30; Acts 20:17. It is noteworthy that here Peter the Apostle (I Peter 1:1) calls himself an elder along with (sun) the other "elders."
A witness (martuv). This is what Jesus had said they must be (Acts 1:8) and what Peter claimed to be (Acts 3:15; Acts 10:39). So Paul was to be a martuv (Acts 22:15).
Who am also a partaker (o kai koinwnov). "The partner also," "the partaker also." See Luke 5:10; II Corinthians 1:7; II Peter 1:4. See same idea in Romans 8:17. In Galatians 3:23; Romans 8:18 we have almost this about the glory about to be revealed to us where mellw as here is used with the infinitive.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Peter 5:1:
Acts 3:18
1 Peter 1:1
1 Peter 1:11
1 Peter 5:5
2 Peter 1:4
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