Bible Dictionary: Babylon: City of Peter Writes From

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1 Peter 5:13
The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, salutes you; and so does Marcus my son.
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The First Epistle General of Peter
... It is most improbable that "Babylon" signifies either the Babylon near Cairo,
or the great city on the Euphrates. ... Peter with encouragement. ...
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The First General Epistle of Peter
... from 5:13 that he had visited the city on the ... XVIII 9. it is doubtful, whether Babylon
would offer the apostle a field ... 4) The fact that Peter writes to Pauline ...
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V. ...
... form of government was to be now established, there must in such a case be in one
city as many ... St. Peter says, moreover ... The Church that is at Babylon greets you ...
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The First Epistle of St. Peter
... In the Greek version of Psalm 86:3, glorious things are spoken of thee, O City of
God,' Peter declares that the joy of Christians in heaven will be glorious ...
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Synagogues: their Origin, Structure and Outward Arrangements
... will discover in the period after the return from Babylon the beginnings ... be no
difficulty in "finding Him" in "His own city," the home of Peter and Andrew ...
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Third Sunday after Easter
... beautifully with the text here where Peter calls us ... And seek the peace of the city
whither I have ... houses and make themselves citizens of Babylon, should marry ...
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Letter Xlvi. Paula and Eustochium to Marcella.
... men regard as blessed those spots where Peter and Paul ... every man his soul." [1006]
For "Babylon the great ... the display, power, and size of the city, the seeing ...
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The Roman Conflagration and the Neronian Persecution.
... it in Ephesus, or he may have accompanied Peter to Rome ... In a similar sense Rome was
a second Babylon, and John ... of this evil, but also through the city [of Rome ...
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Acts XI
... fact if its being the chief commercial city of Western ... Its influence is recognized
by Peter, who says, "Seeing ... the ghostly Fathers of mystic Babylon, and the ...
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The Catholic Epistles.
... naming Pontus first, which lay nearest to Babylon, and Asia ... The most prominent idea
of Peter's first epistle is ... believe that he wrote from that city, and that ...
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