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# the foreigners of the dispersion
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2017-06-21 20:45:09 +00:00
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2023-07-07 17:55:58 +00:00
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Peter speaks of his readers as people who live away from their homes in many different countries.
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# Cappadocia ... Bithynia
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2017-06-21 20:45:09 +00:00
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2017-06-21 20:50:04 +00:00
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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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2018-03-08 16:04:22 +00:00
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# the chosen ones
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2017-06-21 20:45:09 +00:00
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2023-07-07 17:55:58 +00:00
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"the ones whom God the Father has chosen"
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