If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
Peter alludes to Psalms 34:8 The first tastes of God's goodness are afterward followed by fuller experiences A Peter alludes to Psalms 34:8. The first tastes of God's goodness are afterward followed by fuller experiences. A taste whets the appetite (Bengel).
Gracious, х Chreestos (G5543)] - benignant, kind; as God is revealed in Christ, "the Lord." We who are born again, ought so to be kind to the brethren (1 Peter 1:22). 'Whosoever has not tasted the word, to him it is not sweet; but to them who have experienced it, who with the heart believe, "Christ has been sent for me and is become my own: my miseries are His, and His life mine," it tastes sweet' (Luther).