1 PETER 4:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 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.
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