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4. Christ’s example, also, of holiness to be followed, 1 Peter 4:1-6.
1. Christ hath suffered 1 Peter 3:18.
Arm yourselves As a soldier called to a warfare.
The same mind The same thought and purpose of suffering innocently and in God’s cause, that Christ manifested.
For Some understand this clause, of the believer’s identification with Christ in his suffering and death, as in Romans 6:7-11, and Galatians 2:20. But this is too Pauline for St. Peter’s style of expression; and, besides, the words hardly admit of it. Referred to Christ himself, it states, as a fact, the rest from sin that followed his suffering, and presents a valid reason for the arming, namely, that they, having the same purpose, should likewise have no more to do with sin.
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