Verse 5
For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
In this, Peter reinforced his teaching with an appeal to the example of the godly women of the past.
Who hoped in God ... There is a subtle indication in this that the position of Christian women to whom Peter wrote is superior to that enjoyed by the wives of the mighty patriarchs who merely "hoped" in God, whereas the Christians, having received the precious promises which their predecessors had only hoped for, were the actual possessors of the glorious gospel and all of its spiritual endowments.
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