Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; not recompensing evil either in words or deeds, Proverbs 24:29: See Poole on "1 Peter 2:3", see Romans 12:14,17,19,21. But contrariwise blessing; praying for, and, as ye can, doing good to, those that do evil to you, or speak evil of you, Matthew 5:39,44 Luke 16:27,28. Knowing that ye are thereunto called; either:
1. To bless those that do evil to you, that so by patient bearing of injuries, forbearing private revenge, &c., ye might obtain a blessing. Or:
2. Ye are called hereunto, viz. to inherit a blessing. Called; in your conversion to the faith of Christ. That ye should inherit a blessing: this either shows how believers came to partake of the blessing, viz. by way of inheritance; or it implies the perpetuity of it, that, whereas they can exercise their patience in suffering injuries but a little while, their recompence shall be for ever. A blessing; either:
1. Eternal life, as the greatest blessing: or:
2. The good things of both lives, temporal, spiritual, and eternal mercies, which are all promised to the godly, 1 Timothy 4:8, and which they have by right of inheritance, Psalms 37:11 Matthew 5:5: and this seems to agree with 1 Peter 3:10-12.