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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Peter 1:1-2

I. ADDRESS . 1. Writer . "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ." The name is chosen which was most familiar to the readers. It is also the name which belonged to him as an apostle. He was commissioned by Jesus Christ to do important work for the Church, including the composition of this letter. 2. Readers . II. SALUTATION . "Grace to you and peace be multiplied." The introduction is constructed so as to throw the description of the readers into prominence as... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Peter 1:1-3

Here is for our consideration, as introductory and preparatory to an intelligent study of this letter, some suggestions about— I. THE GREETER . "Peter." The allusions to incidents in his life, and the checkered light thrown upon his character, which are found in this Epistle, are in harmony with what we gather from the Gospels and the Acts concerning him. For instance: 1. Jigs name . The Rock-man. What a reminiscence of the giving of that name! What it tells 2. His... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Peter 1:1

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ - On the word apostle, see the Romans 1:1 note; 1 Corinthians 9:1 ff notes.To the strangers - In the Greek, the word “elect” (see 1 Peter 1:2) occurs here: ἐκλεκτοῖς παρεπιδήμοις eklektois parepidēmois, “to the elect strangers.” He here addresses them as elect; in the following verse he shows them in what way they were elected. See the notes there: The word rendered “strangers” occurs only in three places in the New Testament; Hebrews 11:13, and 1 Peter... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Peter 1:1

1 Peter 1:1. Peter, &c., to the strangers Or sojourners, as παρεπιδημοις more properly signifies; that is, to the Jewish or Gentile Christians sojourning on earth: see on 1 Chronicles 29:15; Psalms 39:12; Hebrews 11:13. Scattered Διασπορας , of the dispersion, or dispersed, partly, probably, by the persecution mentioned Acts 8:1; or the expression may merely signify, that they lived at a distance from each other, being scattered through the widely-extended regions here... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 1:1-12

1:1-2:10 HIGH STATUS FOR GOD’S PEOPLEThe character of salvation (1:1-12)Peter’s readers are ‘God’s scattered people’, an expression that Peter uses with a wide meaning. In relation to their place of local residence, they are God’s people scattered throughout northern Asia Minor. But in relation to heaven, they are God’s people scattered in a foreign land. Their true homeland is heaven, and the foreign land is the world. They really belong to God. He chose them and cleansed them, with the aim... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Peter 1:1

apostle . App-189 . Jesus Christ . App-98 . strangers . Greek. parepidemos. See 1 Peter 2:11 and Hebrews 11:13 . The word "elect" from 1 Peter 1:2 must be read here "elect strangers"; compare Revised Version. scattered = of the dispersion. See John 7:35 .James 1:1 . throughout = of. Pontus . . . Cappadocia, Asia . See Acts 2:9 . Galatia . See Acts 16:6 ; Acts 18:23 .Galatians 1:1 , Galatians 1:2 . Bithynia . See Acts 16:7 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Peter 1:1

PETER'S FIRST LETTERFollowing the greeting and salutation (1 Peter 1:1-2), there is a doxology, extolling the mercies of God who had given Christians a marvelous birth, a glorious inheritance, and the salvation of their souls, a salvation which even the prophets of old, and actually the angels, had sought to understand more perfectly (1 Peter 1:3-12). The final verses of the chapter (1 Peter 1:13-25) interweave the practical commands to "gird up the loins of the mind," to be "children of... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Peter 1:1

1 Peter 1:1. To the strangers scattered, &c.— "To those Christians whom Providence has dispersed through various countries, and whom divine grace has taught to consider themselves, wherever they dwell, as strangers and sojourners on earth." By Asia, in this verse, is not to be understood what is nowcommonly meant by Asia; that is, a fourth part of the world; but Asia Propria, or Proconsular Asia; in which stood the city of Ephesus, and some few of the neighbouring towns mentioned in the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Peter 1:1

1. Peter—Greek form of Cephas, man of rock. an apostle of Jesus Christ—"He who preaches otherwise than as a messenger of Christ, is not to be heard; if he preach as such, then it is all one as if thou didst hear Christ speaking in thy presence" [LUTHER]. to the strangers scattered—literally, "sojourners of the dispersion"; only in John 7:35; James 1:1, in New Testament, and the Septuagint, James 1:1- :, "the outcasts of Israel"; the designation peculiarly given to the Jews in their dispersed... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Peter 1:1

Peter is a Greek name (lit. Petros, meaning a stone or rock). No one else in the New Testament has the name Peter, though Peter called Christians stones in this epistle (1 Peter 2:4-5). In Aramaic "stone" is the word cephas. Jesus gave the name Cephas to Simon (The Greek transliteration of Simeon, Peter’s Hebrew name) as a prediction of what this apostle would become (John 1:42; Matthew 16:18).The word "apostle" has both a technical and a general sense in the New Testament. It refers to the... read more