Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Peter 1:18

18 For as much as ye know , that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver, and gold, from your vain conversation , received by tradition from your fathers .

Considering that ye were, &c.

See Tit. 2.14. This implies them to have been in a servile Condition, and in Bondage to their own Errors, till they were converted to Christ.

The most precious things, of greatest esteem among Men.

Because unprofitable to, and insufficient for Righteousness and Salvation.

Viz. in your Judaism, wherein you were so much addicted to uncommanded Rites and Ceremonies, as to have little Respect for God's Law.

And so not only by their Example and Practice▪ but by their Doctrine and Precepts, Matth. 15.3, &c. Mark 7, 7. &c. See likewise Gal. 1.14.

Either, your Ancestors, as Ezek. 20.18. or Doctors and Instructors, who are sometimes called Fathers, 1 Cor. 4.15.

Marginal references: 1 Cor. 6.20. and 7.23.