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Erland Waltner (General Conference Mennonite Church) explains how 1 Peter applies Jesus' teaching on loving the enemy to the life situation of scattered Christians in Asia Minor. Peter empowers believers to be communities of hope bearing witness to their living Lord by word, transformed lifestyle, and doing good. J. Daryl Charles (Covenant Community Church) shows how 2 Peter and Jude are...

Chapter 2 continues the allusion to the OT introduced in 1:20–21. Central to the OT story are both true and false prophets, those who uphold the truth and those who deny or actively suppress the truth. With this transition, Peter shifts the focus to his adversaries. Commentators disagree on the identity of Peter’s opponents. Kelly (229–231) and Cranfield (183) see here the doctrinal shortcomings and ethical libertinism of second-century
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