1-peter 5:14

Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity - See the notes on Romans 16:16, and on 1 Corinthians 16:20 (note). In the above places the kiss is called a holy kiss; here, φιληματι αγαπης, a kiss of Love; i.e. as a mark of their love to each other, in order that misunderstandings might be prevented. But ten or twelve MSS., with the Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, and Vulgate, have ἁγιῳ, holy; salute one another with a Holy kiss. The difference is not great.

Peace be with you all - May all prosperity, spiritual and temporal, be with all that are in Christ Jesus - at are truly converted to him, and live in his Spirit obedient to his will.

Amen - Is wanting, as usual, in some of the principal MSS. and versions.

The subscriptions are, as in other cases, various.

In the Versions:

The end of the First Epistle of the Apostle Peter. - Syriac.

The First Catholic Epistle of Peter the apostle is ended. - Syriac Philoxenian.

The end of the Epistle of St. Peter; may his supplication preserve us!

Amen. Praise be to the Lord of never ending and eternal glory! Amen. - Arabic.

The First Epistle of Peter is completed; may his intercession be with us!

Amen, and Amen. - Aethiopic, Nothing in the Coptic.

Nothing in the printed Vulgate.

The end of the First Epistle of St. Peter. - Complutensian Polyglott.

The First Epistle of St. Peter is ended. - Bib. Vulgat. Edit. Princ.

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Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity - A kiss of love; a common method of affectionate salutation in the times of the apostles. See the notes at Romans 16:16.

Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus - That are true Christians. See the Ephesians 6:23 note; Philippians 4:7 note.