1 PETER 4:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:”
Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you, as though something strange were happening to you — the address to the 'beloved' (agapetoi) warns against surprise (xenizō, viewing as strange) at 'fiery trial' (purosis, literally burning/trial by fire) as though it were an alien intrusion. The persecution is reframed as an expected dimension of Christian existence.
Church Fathers on 1 Peter 4:12
Who, now, should know better the marrow of the Scriptures than the school of Christ itself?— the persons whom the Lord both chose for Himself as scholars, certainly to be fully instructed in all points, and appointed to us for masters to instruct us in all points. To whom would He have rather made known the veiled import of His own language, than to him to whom He disclosed the likeness of His own glory— to Peter, John, and James, and afterwards to Paul, to whom He granted…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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