1 Peter 1:9

receiving the end of your faith The question has been raised whether these words refer to the present or the future. It has been urged on the one hand that the word for "receiving" applied in 2 Corinthians 5:10, and perhaps in Hebrews 10:36; Ephesians 6:8, to the ultimate issue of God's judgment, excludes the former. On the other hand, it may be replied that it is arbitrary to limit the last two passages to the final judgment, and that the tense both of "rejoice" and "receiving" is definitely present. On the whole therefore there is no adequate reason against taking the words in their natural and obvious meaning. Those to whom the Apostle wrote were thought of as already receiving, very really, though not, it might be, in its ultimate fulness, that which was the "end" or "goal" of their faith, and that goal was found in the "salvation" of their "souls" the deliverance of their moral being (in this instance the word includes "spirit," though elsewhere it is distinguished from it) from the burden of guilt, the sense of condemnation, the misery and discord of alienation from God.