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The commentaries on Peter and Jude underscore the light that these letters shed upon one another and focuses on the snapshots they provide of early Christian communities as they encountered the social and religious environment in which they were situated. Careful reading of 1 Peter reveals the complex world of the post-apostolic period. Jude and 2 Peter provide a sober look at the early...

22:14; etc), draws a stark parallel between the Israelite remnant and the presumed small number of people responding to the Christian message. One might suggest instead that 1 Peter on the one hand stresses God’s great eagerness for salvation even of the few and on the other leaves open the possibility (judgment is in the future—see 4:17–18) that the Gentile population will respond to the divine call through the witness of their righteous Christian neighbors. The story of Noah leads, with some grammatical
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