1 Peter 5:1 (WEB)
Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed:
Fathers and councils · 5
Cyprian of Carthage
“Moreover, you may supply the expenses for strangers, if any should be indigent, from my own portion, which I have left with Rogatianus, our fellow-presbyter; which portion, lest it should be all appropriated, I have supplemented by sending to the same by Naricus the acolyte another share, so that the sufferers may…” — editor's note: [Here, as elsewhere, spoken of in this way, in imitation of 1 Pet. v. 1.]
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Jerome
“For this refers to the glory which is then to be revealed to His saints; just as also in another place we read the words “from glory to glory,” of which glory the saints have even in this world received an earnest and a small portion.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 1.
Read the whole comment“Peter also says in his first epistle: “The presbyters which are among you I exhort, who am your fellow-presbyter and a witness of the sufferings of Christ and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: feed the flock of Christ…taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly, according unto God.”” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 1, 2. The last clause from R.V.
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Tertullian
“If, however, you have had the functions of discipline alone allotted you, and (the duty) of presiding not imperially, but ministerially; who or how great are you, that you should grant indulgence, who, by exhibiting neither the prophetic nor the apostolic character, lack that virtue whose property it is to indulge?” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Pet. v. 1–4.
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Gregory the Great
“…also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed, feed the flock of God which is among you (1 Pet. v. 1): in which place he shewed whether it was the feeding of the heart or of the body that he was commending, when he forthwith added, Providing for it,…” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 19
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.7.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.7.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.7.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.7.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.7.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule II.7.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.