Notes I Peter 2:19-25, some very preliminary musings

This is usually on the OT. with Eastertide, we are in Acts. I have nothing new to say on Ps. 23, so i decided ot work a bit with the Peter passage.
This is a good example of ripping out of context. this is directed at slaves, but we carefully excise the preceding verse.Ron Allen of CTS avoided the downsizing of faculty in Indianapolis. He writes of preaching against the passage. This may be an example of that necessity.
Whether directed at slaves or not, this passage comes very very close to glorifying suffering as a godly act.Suffering may strengthen some people, but it serves to destroy many more. I just saw Railway Man, and I see little that torture by the Japanese did for the English soldiers in the film.
Further, right wing Christians have taken to picturing themselves as an oppressed minority awaiting martyrdom...in America.
Granted, Peter is speaking of unjust suffering to be borne when we have no choice in the matter. Note that he concludes with a statement on a proper judge at the end.We get a direct allusion to Isaiah's suffering servant in the quote from 53:9 (in Greek).
Some admire the stoic resignation to suffering in silence. i wonder if the religious response is rather to lament.
I wonder what Peter means when he says that Jesus bore our sins upon his body on the cross/ or carried up our sins in his body? Is it an allusion ot an sacrificial ritual?
V.25, i do not know how well the sheep image works in our time and place. What would be other wayws of speaking of hte shepherd and guardian of souls?
I am struck by the inmag eof going astray. i heard someone in bible class going on and on aobut sin as choice, but that misses much of its power, no? does one deliberatley "go astray?"