Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on 1Pet 3:17

“For it is better doing well (if such be the will of God) to suffer, than doing ill.”

“better--One may object, I would not bear it so ill if I had deserved it. Peter replies, it is better that you did not deserve it, in order that doing well and yet being spoken against, you may prove yourself a true Christian [GERHARD]. if the will of God be so--rather as the optative is in the oldest manuscripts, "if the will of God should will it so." Those who honor God's will as their highest law (Pe1 2:15) have the comfort to know that suffering is God's appointment (Pe1 4:19). So Christ Himself; our inclination does not wish it.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.