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Many Christians around the world today face severe persecution. Others continually feel the weight of cultural pressure against them. The apostle Peter speaks to this circumstance as he reminds us that Christians are aliens and exiles in an often-hostile empire. At the same time, believers are simultaneously the chosen of God, equipped by Jesus’ work for us and in us to live faithfully in our...

Even here, in the easier part of the passage, there are riddles. Above all, it seems impossible to be sure whether the Greek means that Jesus was made alive in his human spirit or made alive by God’s Spirit. Further, did he preach in his spirit or did he preach in the power of God’s Spirit? Interpreters and translators are divided and uncertain. First, Greek doesn’t use capital letters except for personal names, so we don’t know whether spirit should be capitalized, to refer to the Holy Spirit, or
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