1 Peter 5:10

The God of all grace (o qeo th carito). See Philippians 4:10 for poikilh carito qeou (of the variegated grace of God). In Christ (en Cristwi). A Pauline phrase ( 2 Corinthians 5:17-19 ), but Petrine also. For God's "calling" us (kalesa) see 1 Thessalonians 5:23 ; 1 Corinthians 1:8 ; Romans 8:29 . After that ye have suffered a little while (oligon paqonta). Second aorist active participle of pascw, antecedent to the principal verbs which are future active (katartisei, to mend, Mark 1:19 ; Galatians 6:1 , sthrixei, for which see Luke 9:51 ; Luke 22:32 , sqenwsei from sqeno and so far a apax legomenon like eniscuw according to Hesychius). For oligon see Luke 1:6 .