Verse 7
5. The coming end of all things, enforcing this law of holiness, 1 Peter 4:7-11.
7. The end of all things Absolutely, in the final consummation. To refer this to the destruction of Jerusalem, with Dr. Clarke and others, assumes an unlikely interest in that event on the part of those to whom St. Peter is writing, and furnishes no proper basis for the exhortations which follow.
At hand Not in time, but in the apostle’s vivid conception of eternal realities. He has himself given us the divine arithmetic by which he reckons, (2 Peter 3:8, where see notes;) and the Holy Spirit, under whose inspiration he wrote, well knew that it was not literally near, and did not inspire him to write an untruth. Practically, to every man that end is very near, and it becomes us to walk daily with it in view.
Sober Self-restrained.
Watch So as to have the habit of prayer. The three belong together. These counsels are for personal life.
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