Teks -- 1 Peter 4:16 (NET)

4:16 But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear such a name.

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Robertson: 1Pe 4:16 - But if as a Christian

But if as a Christian ( ei de hōs Christianos ).

Supply the verb paschei (condition of first class, "if one suffer as a Christian"). This word occurs only three times in the N.T. (Act 11:26; Act 26:28; 1Pe 4:16). It is word of Latin formation coined to distinguish followers of Christ from Jews and Gentiles (Act 11:26). Each instance bears that idea. It is not the usual term at first like mathētai (disciples), saints (hagioi ), believers (pisteuontes ), etc. The Jews used Nazōraioi (Nazarenes) as a nickname for Christians (Act 24:5). By a.d. 64 the name Christian was in common use in Rome (Tacitus, Ann. XV. 44). Owing to itacism it was sometimes spelled Chrēstianoi (i , ei and ē pronounced alike).

Robertson: 1Pe 4:16 - Let him not be ashamed

Let him not be ashamed ( mē aischunesthō ).

Prohibition with mē and present passive imperative of aischunō . Peter had once been ashamed to suffer reproach or even a sneer for being a disciple of Christ (Mar 14:68). See the words of Jesus in Mar 8:38 and Paul’ s in 2Ti 1:12. Peter is not ashamed now. In this name (en tōi onomati toutōi ). Of Christian as in Mar 9:41, "because ye are Christ’ s."

Vincent: 1Pe 4:16 - A Christian

A Christian

Only three times in the New Testament, and never as a name used by Christians themselves, but as a nickname or a term of reproach. See on Act 11:26. Hence Peter's idea is, if any man suffer from the contumely of those who contemptuously style him Christian.

Wesley: 1Pe 4:16 - Let him glorify God

Who giveth him the honour so to suffer, and so great a reward for suffering.

JFB: 1Pe 4:16 - a Christian

The name given in contempt first at Antioch. Act 11:26; Act 26:28; the only three places where the term occurs. At first believers had no distinctive name, but were called among themselves "brethren," Act 6:3; "disciples," Act 6:1; "those of the way," Act 9:2; "saints," Rom 1:7; by the Jews (who denied that Jesus was the CHRIST, and so would never originate the name Christian), in contempt, "Nazarenes." At Antioch, where first idolatrous Gentiles (Cornelius, Act 10:1-2, was not an idolater, but a proselyte) were converted, and wide missionary work began, they could be no longer looked on as a Jewish sect, and so the Gentiles designated them by the new name "Christians." The rise of the new name marked a new epoch in the Church's life, a new stage of its development, namely, its missions to the Gentiles. The idle and witty people of Antioch, we know from heathen writers, were famous for inventing nicknames. The date of this Epistle must have been when this had become the generally recognized designation among Gentiles (it is never applied by Christians to each other, as it was in after ages--an undesigned proof that the New Testament was composed when it professes), and when the name exposed one to reproach and suffering, though not seemingly as yet to systematic persecution.

JFB: 1Pe 4:16 - let him not be ashamed

Though the world is ashamed of shame. To suffer for one's own faults is no honor (1Pe 4:15; 1Pe 2:20), --for Christ, is no shame (1Pe 4:14; 1Pe 3:13).

JFB: 1Pe 4:16 - but let him glorify God

Not merely glory in persecution; Peter might have said as the contrast, "but let him esteem it an honor to himself"; but the honor is to be given to God, who counts him worthy of such an honor, involving exemption from the coming judgments on the ungodly.

JFB: 1Pe 4:16 - on this behalf

The oldest manuscripts and Vulgate read, "in this name," that is, in respect of suffering for such a name.

Clarke: 1Pe 4:16 - Yet if - as a Christian

Yet if - as a Christian - If he be persecuted because he has embraced the Christian faith, let him not be ashamed, but let him rather glorify God on this very account. Christ suffered by the Jews because he was holy; Christians suffer because they resemble him

The word Χριστιανος, Christian, is used only here and in Act 11:26; Act 26:28. See the note on the Act 11:26 (note).

Calvin: 1Pe 4:16 - Yet if any man suffer as a Christian // On this behalf,

16.Yet if any man suffer as a Christian After having forbidden the Christians to do any hurt or harm, lest for their evil deeds, like the unbelieving, they should become hateful to the world, he now bids them to give thanks to God, if they suffered persecutions for the name of Christ. And truly it is no common kindness from God, that he calls us, freed and exempted from the common punishment of our sins, to so honorable a warfare as to undergo for the testimony of his Gospel either exiles, or prisons, or reproaches, or even death itself. Then he intimates that those are ungrateful to God, who clamor or murmur on account of persecutions, as though they were unworthily dealt with, since on the contrary they ought to regard it as gain and to acknowledge God’s favor.

But when he says, as a Christian, he regards not so much the name as the cause. It is certain that the adversaries of Christ omitted nothing in order to degrade the Gospel. Therefore, whatever reproachful words they made use of, it was enough for the faithful, that they suffered for nothing else but for the defense of the Gospel.

On this behalf, or, In this respect. For since all afflictions derive their origin from sin, this thought ought to occur to the godly, “I am indeed worthy to be visited by the Lord with this and even with greater punishment for my sins; but now he would have me to suffer for righteousness, as though I were innocent.” For how much soever the saints may acknowledge their own faults, yet as in persecutions they regard a different end, such as the Lord sets before them, they feel that their guilt is blotted out and abolished before God. On this behalf, then, they have reason to glorify God.

TSK: 1Pe 4:16 - as // let him not // but

as : 1Pe 4:19, 1Pe 3:17, 1Pe 3:18; Act 11:26, Act 26:28; Eph 3:13-15

let him not : Isa 50:7, Isa 54:4; Phi 1:20; 2Ti 1:12; Heb 12:2, Heb 12:3

but : Isa 24:15; Act 5:41; Rom 5:2-5; Phi 1:29; Jam 1:2-4

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Poole: 1Pe 4:16 - Yet if any man suffer as a Christian // Let him not be ashamed // But let him glorify God on this behalf

Yet if any man suffer as a Christian if his Christianity be his only crime, and the cause of his sufferings.

Let him not be ashamed: see 2Ti 2:12 .

But let him glorify God on this behalf i.e. on the account of his sufferings; let him bless God for keeping him from suffering as an evil-doer, and for counting him worthy to suffer for Christ’ s sake, Act 5:41 , as well as for giving him patience, and courage under sufferings.

Gill: 1Pe 4:16 - Yet if any man suffer as a Christian // let him not be ashamed // but let him glorify God on this behalf

Yet if any man suffer as a Christian,.... Because he is one, and professes himself to be one. This name was first given to the disciples at Antioch, either by themselves, or by the Gentiles; however, it being agreeable to them, was retained; it is only mentioned here, and in Act 11:26,

let him not be ashamed; neither of Christ, and his Gospel, for which he suffers, nor of the name he bears, nor of the punishment he endures, however ignominious and shameful it may be among men; but let him, as his Lord and master did, endure the cross, and despise the shame, Heb 12:2

but let him glorify God on this behalf: that he bestows this gift upon him to suffer for Christ, as well as to believe in him; and that he does him so much honour to call him to such service, and to strengthen him in it, so as to take it joyfully, and endure it patiently and cheerfully. The Alexandrian copy, and some others, and also the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, instead of "in this behalf", read "in this name"; that is, of a Christian.