Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

 It is Peter's conviction that something of that glow of glory rests on the man who suffers for Christ. When Stephen was on trial for his life and it was certain that he would be condemned to death, to those who looked on him his face was as the face of an angel ( Acts 6:15). 