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First Epistle Of Peter

The external evidence of authenticity of this epistle is of the strongest kind and the internal is equally strong. It was addressed to the churches of Asia Minor which had for the most part been founded by Paul and his companions, Supposing it to have been written at Babylon, (1 Peter 5:13) it ia a probable conjecture that Silvanus, By whom it was transmitted to those churches, had joined Peter after a tour of visitation, and that his account of the condition of the Christians in those districts determined the apostle to write the epistle. (On the question of this epistle having been written at Babylon commentators differ. "Some refer it to the famous Babylon in Asia, which after its destruction was still inhabited by a Jewish colony; others refer it to Babylon in Egypt, now called Old Cairo; still others understand it mystically of heathen Rome, in which sense Babylon? is certainly used in the Apocalypse of John." --Schaff.) The objects of the epistle were --

To comfort and strengthen the Christians in a season of severe trial.
To enforce the practical and spiritual duties involved in their calling
To warn them against special temptations attached to their position.
To remove all doubt as to the soundness and completeness of the religious system which they had already received. Such an attestation was especially needed by the Hebrew Christians, who were to appeal from Paul's authority to that of the elder apostles, and above all to that of Peter. The last, which is perhaps the very principal object, is kept in view throughout the epistle, and is distinctly stated (1 Peter 5:12) The harmony of such teaching with that of Paul is sufficiently obvious. Peter belongs to the school, or to speak more correctly, is the leader of the school, which at once vindicates the unity of the law and the gospel, and puts the superiority of the latter on its true basis-that of spiritual development. The date of this epistle is uncertain, but Alford believes it to have been written between A.D. 63 and 67.

Library

From the First Epistle of Peter.
... A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of
Infants Chapter 41."From the First Epistle of Peter. See ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 41 from the first epistle.htm

The First General Epistle of Peter
... The First General Epistle of Peter. CONTENTS The contents of the Epistle
can be divided into four parts: I. Introduction, 1:1-12. ...
/.../drummond/introduction to the new testament/the first general epistle of.htm

The First Epistle General of Peter
... CHAPTER XXI THE FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL OF PETER. [Sidenote: The Author.]
The author describes himself as "Peter, an apostle of Jesus ...
/.../pullan/the books of the new testament/chapter xxi the first epistle.htm

The Second General Epistle of Peter
... from style is undoubtedly the most important one; but if we accept the theory that
Silvanus wrote the first Epistle under the direction of Peter, while the ...
/.../drummond/introduction to the new testament/the second general epistle of.htm

The First Epistle of St. Peter
... THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PETER THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PETER. i. 1 PETER,
an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the exiles of the Dispersion ...
/.../moffat/the general epistles james peter and judas/the first epistle of st.htm

Introductory Note to the First Epistle of Clement to the ...
... place it towards the close of the first century or ... Peter, others placing Linus, and
others still Linus and ... of the Domitian period, so that the Epistle may be ...
/.../introductory note to the first.htm

The Four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, Thirteen Epistles of ...
... to make any mention of them in their writings;" and, secondly, by another passage
of the same work, wherein, speaking of the First Epistle of Peter, "This," he ...
/.../paley/evidences of christianity/section viii the four gospels.htm

The Second Epistle General of Peter
... Peter has made use of St. Paul's work in his First Epistle, makes it quite possible
for us to think that he believed in the peculiar inspiration of his great ...
/.../pullan/the books of the new testament/chapter xxii the second epistle.htm

The First Epistle.
... The First Epistle. ... and servants of God, and all Christians who sojourn in those parts,
fully discover by the love of Christ and Saint Peter the disposition of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/unknown/the decretals/the first epistle 3.htm

The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained
... Title Page. PREFACE BY THE TRANSLATOR. THE FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL OF ST. PETER.
INTRODUCTION. THE FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL OF ST. PETER. CHAPTER IV� CHAPTER II. ...
/.../luther/the epistles of st peter and st jude preached and explained/

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