1 Peter 2:3
If so be ye have etasted that the Lord is fgracious.
If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
εἴπερ ἐγεύσασθε ὅτι χρηστὸς ὁ Κύριος·
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Psalms 34:7 The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
Psalms 9:9 The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
Hebrews 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
Hebrews 6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
Zechariah 9:17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
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Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
this doth not imply a doubting, but a supposition, as was before observed, 1Pe 1:17.
not lightly tasted by a bare ineffectual knowledge, as Heb 6:4; but experienced and perceived by the taste of your spiritual palate; your spiritual sense, and ability to judge of spiritual things, being restored to you, with your new birth. He refers to Psa 34:8, and possibly to Isa 66:11.
the Lord Jesus Christ, as appears by the next verse.
good, kind, or rather, sweet: the same word is applied to wine, Luk 5:39. The sense of the whole is: If ye have by faith received the gospel as glad tidings, and worthy of all acceptation, 1Ti 1:15, and therein perceived and experienced the sweetness of those consolations which are in Christ Jesus, Php 2:1; or, which is the same, how sweet he is, who, in the preaching of the gospel, exhibits himself to your spiritual senses, to be fed upon and tasted by you.