Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Peter 1:8

8 Whom having not seen , ye love , in whom though now ye see him not , yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable , and full of glory .

Which Christ.

With your bodily Eyes. Most of these Iews lived out of their own Country, and so had not seen Christ in the Flesh; and this was the Commendation of their Love, that they loved him whom they had not seen, though sight doth ordinarily contribute toward the stirring up of Affection.

Neither as others have done in the daies of his Flesh, nor as you your selves hereafter shall in his Glory; ye walk by Faith, and not by sight, 2 Cor. 5.7.

In hope of seeing and enjoying him.

Which cannot be expressed with Words. See the like Phrase, Rom. 8.26. and 2 Cor. 9.15.

Both in respect of the Object about which this Joy is conversant, the heavenly Glory; the Degree, it is the highest here in the World, the duration of it, it is most solid; as likewise in Comparison of the Joy of this World which is vain and transitory, and whereof many times Men are afterward ashamed.

Marginal references: 1 Joh. 4.20.; Joh. 20.29. [illegible: 1 letter]eb. 11.1, 27.