1 Peter 4:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For for this cause Or to this end; was the gospel preached Ever since it was intimated to Adam, in the promise made to him after the fall, that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent's head; to them that are dead Who have died in their several generations, and especially to our forefathers, the descendants of Abraham, and the other patriarchs, by Moses and the prophets; that they might be judged according to men in the flesh Or, that though they were judged in the flesh according to the manner of men, with rash, unrighteous judgment, were condemned as evil- doers, and some of them put to death, they might live according to God Agreeably to his word and will; in the spirit In their soul, renewed after the divine image, as his devoted servants and witnesses in the midst of their persecutors, and so be prepared to live with him in a future world.