having good behavior among the nations, so in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
      IV. The apostle adds a further description, still preserving the metaphor of a stone, 1 Peter 2:8; 1 Peter 2:8. The words are taken from Isaiah 8:13; Isaiah 8:14, Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself--and he shall be for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence, whence it is plain that Jesus Christ is the Lord of hosts, and consequently the most high God. Observe,