the end of the first major division of the letter in 2:10. These first few verses (13–16) stress the call to “holiness.” The opening verse (13) begins with a “journey” image, evocative of the exodus experience of Israel as well as the “exile” status of the readers (see 1:1; 2:11). Literally they are to “gird the loins of (their) minds”—a call for readiness as they set out toward the full experience of salvation that will be theirs at the completion of human history when Jesus Christ is fully revealed
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