1 PETER 4:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.”
But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed — the paradoxical exhortation to rejoice (chairō) in participation (koinōnia) with Christ's sufferings is grounded in the anticipation of eschatological 'revelation' (apokalypsis) of his glory (doxa), when believers' own joy will be complete (hyperperisseua, superabundant).
Church Fathers on 1 Peter 4:13
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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