1 Peter 1:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Searching what? Whether near or farther off, or what particular part of time. This may relate particularly to Daniel's weeks, Daniel 9:1-27. What manner of time; whether peaceable or troublesome, when the people were free or when in bondage; what were the qualities of the time, or signs by which it might be known, Jacob foretells Christ's coming, when the sceptre was departed from Judah, Genesis 49:10; Isaiah, in a time of universal peace, Isaiah 2:4, Isaiah 11:6. This diligent inquiring after the time of Christ's coming showed their earnest longing for it. The Spirit of Christ; so styled, as being of the Son, no less than of the Father, both by eternal procession and temporal mission, 1 Thessalonians 14:16,26 1 Thessalonians 15:26. This shows, that not only Christ had a being under the Old Testament before his coming in the flesh, (for if Christ were not, there could be no Spirit of Christ), but likewise that Christ is God, because of his inspiring the prophets with the knowledge of future things, which none but God can do. When it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ; what the prophets did foretell concerning Christ, was not their own conjecture, but what the Spirit did dictate to them. And the glory that should follow; Greek, glories, in the plural number, i.e. the manifold glory which was to follow upon his many sufferings, the glory of his resurrection, ascension, sitting at the right hand of God, sending the Spirit, &c. Christ's suffering and glory are often joined together, Psalms 22:6 Psalms 110:1-7 Isaiah 53:3,Isaiah 53:10-12 Luke 24:26 Philippians 2:8,9 Heb 2:9,10; to show that there is the same way (and no other) for the salvation of the members, as for the glory of the Head, viz. by sufferings.