Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
EXHORTATIONS TO ELDERS, JUNIORS, AND ALL IN GENERAL. PARTING PRAYER. CONCLUSION. (I Peter 5:1-14)
elders—alike in office and age (I Peter 5:5).
I . . . also an elder—To put one's self on a level with those whom we exhort, gives weight to one's exhortations (compare II John 1:1-2). Peter, in true humility for the Gospel's sake, does not put forward his apostleship here, wherein he presided over the elders. In the apostleship the apostles have no successors, for "the signs of an apostle" have not been transmitted. The presidents over the presbyters and deacons, by whatever name designated, angel, bishop, or moderator, etc., though of the same ORDER as the presbyters, yet have virtually succeeded to a superintendency of the Church analogous to that exercised by the apostles (this superintendency and priority existed from the earliest times after the apostles [TERTULLIAN]); just as the Jewish synagogue (the model which the Church followed) was governed by a council of presbyters, presided over by one of themselves, "the chief ruler of the synagogue." (Compare VITRINGA [Synagogue and Temple, Part II, chs. 3 and 7]).
witness—an eye-witness of Christ's sufferings, and so qualified to exhort you to believing patience in suffering for well-doing after His example (I Peter 4:19; I Peter 2:20). This explains the "therefore" inserted in the oldest manuscripts, "I therefore exhort," resuming exhortation from I Peter 4:19. His higher dignity as an apostle is herein delicately implied, as eye-witnessing was a necessary qualification for apostleship: compare Peter's own speeches, Acts 1:21-22; Acts 2:32; Acts 10:39.
also—implying the righteous recompense corresponding to the sufferings.
partaker of the glory—according to Christ's promise; an earnest of which was given in the transfiguration.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Peter 5:1:
Ephesians 4:11
1 Timothy 4:14
1 Timothy 5:1
Hebrews 7:24
Hebrews 13:20
1 Peter 1:11
1 Peter 5:1
1 Peter 5:4
2 John 1:1
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