Verse 12
12. Conversation Conduct, behaviour, as in chap. 1 Peter 1:18.
Honest Good, becoming their holy profession. Justin Martyr says of himself, that he was led to believe the Christians falsely accused, by the apparent impossibility of people who lived so blamelessly being guilty of the unnatural vices imputed to them. So St. Peter exhorts these suspected and closely-watched brethren, to live so purely that their very detractors should, upon the closest scrutiny of their good behaviour, be led to glorify God, giving him praise and honour.
Day of visitation Whether in wrath or mercy, is not said; and the phrase is used in both senses. But only the latter fits the word glorify. See Luke 1:68; Luke 1:78; Luke 7:16; Luke 19:44; Acts 15:14. It points to a time of mercy and offers of grace to their convinced and awakened souls, which apostolic faith expected.
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