Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
When the chief Shepherd shall be manifested (fanerwqentov tou arxipoimenov). Genitive absolute with first aorist passive participle of fanerow, to manifest, and genitive of arxipoimhn, a compound (arxi, poimhn) after analogy of arxiereuv, here only in N.T., but in Testam. of Twelve Patrs. (Jud. 8) and on a piece of wood around an Egyptian mummy and also on a papyrus AD 338 (Deissmann, Light, etc., p. 100). See Hebrews 13:20 for o poimhn o megav (the Shepherd the great).
Ye shall receive (komieisqe). Future of komizw (I Peter 1:9, which see).
The crown of glory that fadeth not away (ton amarantinon thv dochv stefanon). For "crown" (stefanov) see James 1:12; I Corinthians 9:25; II Timothy 4:8; Revelation 2:10; Revelation 3:10; Revelation 4:4. In the Gospels it is used only of the crown of thorns, but Jesus is crowned with glory and honor (Hebrews 2:9). In all these passages it is the crown of victory as it is here. See I Peter 1:4 for amarantov, unfading. Amarantinov is made from that word as the name of a flower amaranq (so called because it never withers and revives if moistened with water and so used as a symbol of immortality), "composed of amaranth" or "amarantine," "the amarantine (unfading) crown of glory."
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Peter 5:4:
1 Corinthians 9:25
James 1:12
1 Peter 1:9
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