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Not "If," but "Since"
Multiple commentators clarify that the word "if" does not express doubt about the readers' salvation. Instead, it functions like the word "since." Peter is building his argument on the assumption that his readers have already had a genuine, personal experience of the Lord's goodness, likely at their conversion.
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Peter 2:3
18th Century
Theologian
If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. Or rather, as Doddridge renders it, "Since you have tasted that the Lord is gracious." …
AT Robertson
On 1 Peter 2:3
If ye have tasted (ε εγευσασθε). Condition of first class with ε and first aorist middle indicative of γευω in figurative sense as…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Peter 2:3
19th Century
Bishop
If indeed you have tasted.—The phrase “if indeed,” as elsewhere (2 Thessalonians 1:6, Note), constitutes a strong appe…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Peter 2:1–3
19th Century
Preacher
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere mil…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Peter 2:3
The image of “tasting” the Lord goes back to Ps 34:8: “Taste and see that the LORD is good.” Those who have come to taste the graciousness or goodn…
John Calvin
On 1 Peter 2:3
16th Century
Theologian
If it is so that you have tasted; or, If indeed you have tasted. He alludes to Psalm 34:8,
Taste and see that the Lord…
John Gill
On 1 Peter 2:3
17th Century
Pastor
If so be you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. Reference is had to (Psalms 34:8), "O taste and see that …
Matthew Henry
On 1 Peter 2:1–10
17th Century
Minister
Evil-speaking is a sign of malice and guile in the heart, and it hinders our benefiting from the word of God. A new life needs suitable food. Infan…