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Crisis in the church is not a new phenomenon. In fact, the church has always been—and probably always will be—involved in some kind of crisis. Even in the apostolic period, which is regarded by many as the church’s golden age, there were serious crises coming both from the outside, as in 1 Peter, and from the inside, as in Jude and 2 Peter. The three short New Testament letters treated in 1...

through the knowledge of him who called us: For God/Christ as the object of epignōsis (“knowledge”) see the Note on 1:2. While the gospels frequently portray Jesus as calling persons to follow him, in the NT epistles God is generally the subject of the verb “call” (kalein) when used in a religious sense. to his own glory and excellence: The phrase idią doxę̄ kai aretę̄ refers to the glory and excellence (rather than “virtue”) of God (and/or of Christ). Many manuscripts have the reading dia doxēs
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