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# General Information:
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Peter identifies himself as the writer and identifies and greets the believers to whom he is writing.
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# the foreigners of the dispersion
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Peter speaks of his readers as people who live away from their homes in many different countries. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# Cappadocia ... Bithynia
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Along with the other places that Peter mentions, "Cappadocia" and "Bithynia" were Roman provinces located in what is now the country of Turkey.
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# the chosen ones ... according to the foreknowledge of God the Father
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"the ones whom God the Father has chosen ... according to his own foreknowledge." God has chosen them according to his own foreknowledge.
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