searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.
"To the elaborated and elevated declaration of his eschatological vision in 1 Peter 1:6-9, Peter now adds an explanatory postscript in a more didactic style. He pauses to measure the greatness of the salvation mentioned in 1 Peter 1:5; 1 Peter 1:9 with a brief but wide-ranging reflection on the past and present. The curiosity of ’prophets’ (1 Peter 1:10) and ’angels’ (1 Peter 1:12) underscores the mystery of the divine plan: God in his sovereignty has long kept secret the salvation soon to be revealed to his chosen ones (cf. Ephesians 3:4-6)." [Note: Michaels, p. 38.] 