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So does 1 Peter 2.13-17

1 Peter was written for the Christians in what is now Asian Turkey. There is no record of persecution by the Roman authorities here, at least up to sometime during the rule of Domitian (81-96).
Furthermore, one of the main theme throughout the epistle is submission & obedience.

Cordially, Bernard

Bernard Muller wrote:

So does 1 Peter 2.13-17

1 Peter was written for the Christians in what is now Asian Turkey. There is no record of persecution by the Roman authorities here, at least up to sometime during the rule of Domitian (81-96).
Furthermore, one of the main theme throughout the epistle is submission & obedience.

Okay.... When do you think the point is reached when no Christian around the Empire would be likely to compose something so totally irenic about the authorities?

Okay.... When do you think the point is reached when no Christian around the Empire would be likely to compose something so totally irenic about the authorities?

I don't know. I did not study that.

Cordially, Bernard

Ben C. Smith wrote:

Bernard Muller wrote:

So does 1 Peter 2.13-17

1 Peter was written for the Christians in what is now Asian Turkey. There is no record of persecution by the Roman authorities here, at least up to sometime during the rule of Domitian (81-96).
Furthermore, one of the main theme throughout the epistle is submission & obedience.

Okay.... When do you think the point is reached when no Christian around the Empire would be likely to compose something so totally irenic about the authorities?

I think the passage must date from before the situation envisaged in Pliny's letters, where Christians are officially an illegal organization.
This situation probably develops towards the very end of the 1st century.

Andrew Criddle