1 Peter 5

Chap. V. Ver. 1—14. The elders exhorted to feed the church—original term rendered scarcely, signifies with difficulty, as in (Acts 14:18); XXvii. 7, 8, 16. Ver. 19. A faithful Creator—Who will preserve their separate spirits, and restore to them their bodies, at the resurrection. Chap. V. Ver. 1. Who am also an elder.—Hammond, “a fellow elder.” Ver. 2. Taking the oversight thereof—Hammond, “do it.” Doddridge, “discharge the episcopal office.” Macknight, “The Bishop’s office.” Ver. 3. Neither as being lords.—Macknight, as “lording it.” The word ἀρπαγμός [arpagmos] means to tyrannize, or domineer. See Macknight, and compare Mat. Ver. 4. The chief Shepherd.—In Spain, it seems, the flocks often contain 10,000 sheep, divided into ten tribes, with 50 under shepherds, and as many dogs.

See Orient. Cust. No. 577.—Fadeth not away.—As was the case with those garlands which were bestowed as rewards in the public games. Ver. 5. Be clothed with humility.—Whitby and others explain this of a frock or it! which was worn by slaves and working men over their meaner dress; an expression implies, that humility should be conspicuous above all other virtues. deserted in the apostles’ days;” and farther argues, from (1 Peter 2:13, 14, 17). Ver. 8. Whom he may devour.—Doddridge and Macknight, “Swallow up.”