Here we may observe, I. The persons to whom this exhortation is given—to the presbyters, pastors, and spiritual guides of the church, elders by office, rather than by age, ministers of those churches to whom he wrote this epistle. II. The person who gives this exhortation—the apostle Peter: I exhort ; and, to give force to this exhortation, he tells them he was their brother-presbyter or fellow-el...