Seeing ye have purified (ηγνικοτες). Perfect active participle of αγνιζω, old verb from αγνος (pure), here with ψυχας (souls), wit…

Seeing you have purified your souls. (The Greek is, "Having purified your souls.") The apostles were never afraid of referring to human ag…

Purified your souls in obeying.—Bengel well points us to 2 Peter 1:5–7, where, similarly, St. Peter delights to exhibi…

Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your futile way of life received by traditi…

In the third subdivision of this section on the Christian way of life, Peter adds to the command to be holy and to reverence God, the command to “l…

Seeing ye have purified your souls, or, Purifying your souls. Erasmus renders the words poorly, “Who have purified,” and so o…

Seeing you have purified your souls
The apostle passes to another exhortation, namely, to brotherly love; the ground…

Holy confidence in God as a Father and awe-filled fear of Him as a Judge harmonize; and to regard God always as a Judge endears Him to us as a Fath…