<p>1:9 <i>Receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls</i>- The joy of :8 and present fulness of glory can only be because of the fact that we are right now in process of receiving eternity; as John's Gospel puts it, we have eternal life, in that we are living now the kind of life we shall eternally live. We have the hope of life now (:3); and <i>elpis </i>doesn't mean a mere possibility, but a stable, certain future event. See on 1 Pet. 3:15.</p>