1 Peter 2:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

By Christ's being reviled, we are to understand all those injurious words, reproaches, slanders, blasphemies, which his persecutors cast out against him. Reviled not again; therefore when he told the Jews they were of their father the devil, 1 Thessalonians 8:44, that was not a reviling them, but a just accusation of them, or reproof of their devilish behaviour. When he suffered; when he was affected not only with verbal but real injuries, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, crucified. He threatened not; he was so far from avenging himself, or recompensing evil for evil, that he did not so much as threaten what he would afterward do to them. But committed himself; or his cause; neither is in the Greek, but either may be well supplied, and to the same purpose: the sense is, Christ did not retaliate, nor act any thing out of private revenge, but so referred himself, and the judgment of his cause, to his Father's good pleasure, as rather to desire pardon for his persecutors, than vengeance on them, Luke 23:34. To him that judgeth righteously: the apostle adds this of God's judging righteously, for the comfort of servants to whom he speaks, as Ephesians 6:8,9 Col 3:24 4:1, and for the terror of masters, that the former might learn patience, and the latter moderation.