For so is the will of God; his command. That with well-doing; all manner of offices of humanity, whereof obedience to magistrates is a principal one. Ye may put to silence; Greek, muzzle, stop the mouths, Titus 1:11; viz. by taking away all occasion of evil-speaking. The ignorance; either their ignorance of the state and conversation of believers, which may be the occasion of their speaking evil of them; or their ignorance of God and his ways, to which Christ imputes the fury of persecutors, 1 Thessalonians 16:3. They that know not God themselves, are most ready to reproach and slander those that do. Of foolish men; true wisdom consisting in the knowledge of God, they that are destitute of that knowledge, as unbelievers are, are called foolish.
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1 Peter 2:15
15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: