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1 Peter was written by the Apostle Peter to encourage believers for whom the storm clouds of persecution were gathering, just because they were Christians. To encourage them he first reminds them that suffering is temporary, and that faithful living in times of suffering will produce eternal benefits. He develops this theme to show that such a lifestyle, lived out in difficult and dangerous...

his malicious slander. They were horribly persecuted even to the extent that “new kinds of death were invented”; they were “devoured by dogs” and some were “set apart … that when the day came to a close, they should be consumed to serve for light.” Eventually it was decreed by Rome that it was “unlawful to be a Christian.” ’4 How much of this could have been foreseen by Peter we cannot know, but it was to minister to this kind of situation that he wrote in such a positive way. Paul has been called
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