1 Peter 2:3

If so be; this doth not imply a doubting, but a supposition, as was before observed, 1 Peter 1:17. Ye have tasted; not lightly tasted by a bare ineffectual knowledge, as Hebrews 6:4; but experienced and perceived by the taste of your spiritual palate; your spiritual sense, and ability to judge of spiritual things, being restored to you, with your new birth. He refers to Psalms 34:8, and possibly to Isaiah 66:11. The Lord; the Lord Jesus Christ, as appears by the next verse. Is gracious; good, kind, or rather, sweet: the same word is applied to wine, Luke 5:39. The sense of the whole is: If ye have by faith received the gospel as glad tidings, and worthy of all acceptation, 1 Timothy 1:15, and therein perceived and experienced the sweetness of those consolations which are in Christ Jesus, Philippians 2:1; or, which is the same, how sweet he is, who, in the preaching of the gospel, exhibits himself to your spiritual senses, to be fed upon and tasted by you.