Verse 5
5. Give account Since these profligates and revilers must render an account to Christ, his maligned and suffering people may safely leave their vindication in his hands, following his own example, 1 Peter 2:23.
Ready to judge The blessed side of Christ’s readiness for his second advent, St. Peter sets forth in his speech in Solomon’s porch. Acts 3:19-20. And he is, on his part, fully prepared to take his seat on the judgment throne, as he has ever been since the apostle wrote. Not the nearness of the event, but its certainty, is intended.
The quick and the dead It obviates no difficulty to take these words figuratively. They must, we think, be taken in their usual sense, as in Acts 10:42, Romans 14:9, and 2 Timothy 4:1, meaning those who are living when Christ comes, and those who are then dead.
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