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The letters of Peter and Jude are among the most pastorally sensitive in the entire New Testament, because they contain messages of encouragement and warning. In his commentary on the epistles of Peter and Jude, Kelly offers an introduction and overview of the important literary, textual, and theological themes. With only nine chapters on which to comment, Kelly has ample room for adequate...

the point he wishes to emphasize, in view of his readers’ difficult situation, is that as Christians they have no abiding home on earth. In earlier times the Jews read their successive deportations as divine punishments (e.g. Dt. 29:25–28; Jer. 34:17; Jdt. 5:18), but later, as their foreign settlements prospered and increased in number, they began to view them less gloomily (e.g. Orac. Sib. iii. 271; 1 Macc. 15:16–24: cf. TWNT II, 98–101). Even so, diaspora, adopted as a euphemism for the harsher
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