Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
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Gill's Exposition
Wherein ye greatly rejoice,.... The Vulgate Latin version reads, "in which ye shall rejoice": and so the Syriac version, adding, "for ever"; and refer these words to the "last time"; or, times spoken…
Barnes' Notes
Wherein ye greatly rejoice - In which hope of salvation. The idea is, that the prospect which they had of the future inheritance was to them a source of the highest joy, even in the midst of their…
Adam Clarke
Wherein ye greatly rejoice - Some refer wherein, εν ᾡ, to the salvation mentioned above; others, to the last time, καιρῳ εσχατῳ, in Pe1 1:5; others think that it applies to the being kept by the…
The first word, wherein, refers to the apostle's foregoing discourse about the excellency of their present state, and their grand expectations for the future. "In this condition you greatly rejoice,…
Cambridge Bible
Wherein ye greatly rejoice The English verb and adverb answer to the single Greek word which expresses, as in Mat 5:12; Luk 1:47; Luk 10:21, the act of an exulting joy. The verb occurs three times in…
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