is one who suffers the reproaches attached to Christ. This is the whole argument of the section of the Epistle from which the quotation is made. The apostle recognises that there must be suffering and reproach for the name of Christ. Writing to believers, Peter says to them in effect, You are suffering reproach for the name of Christ. You are living in the midst of impurity the life of the pure; and the quality of your purity is not the quality of merely ethical morality, but the purity of separateness