Yet for oral hearers, the repetition and interweaving of topics would have sufficiently reinforced the message.26 This letter’s focus is paraenetic, and paraenesis “is not determined by its compositional structure”; it varies devices and structure.27 Emphasizing this point, Troy Martin groups three major sections of the body around three metaphor clusters related to Diaspora:28 God’s chosen household (1:14–2:10);29 foreigners and aliens (2:11–3:12);30 and the Diaspora as a context for suffering
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