1 PETER 4:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.”
If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you — the assertion that insult 'on account of the name of Christ' (onoma Christou) results in blessing (makarios) is grounded in the presence of the 'Spirit of glory' (pneuma doxēs kai dynamis theou, spirit of glory and of God) resting (anapaō) upon the persecuted. The insulted believer is paradoxically honored by divine presence.
Church Fathers on 1 Peter 4:14
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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