Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a PhD in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Okay, we'll go ahead and get started.

When we get started, we'll be picking up in First Epistle of St. Peter, Chapter 1, verse 13.

So, there's not a lot of recap to do because most of last time we were doing introduction to 1st peter

2nd peter and the epistle of st jude and we talked about why we were doing those even though

st jude's epistle we took kind of out of order and why we did that um not going to rehearse all that

again and then we read read those first 12 verses,

which were basically the introduction to the epistle,

where we talked about how in format,

First Peter is very similar in sort of the overall layout

in the epistle style to St. Paul's epistles that we read over the period

of a couple of years.

And that that meant that in the introduction he sort of laid out some of the themes that he's

going to be returning to sort of over and over again as we work our way through the epistle.

And so what he mainly talked about in the introduction that we read last time was he was talking

to, as we said, based on the content of the epistle and the time in St.

Pierre's life where this would fit to be written, right? And the places that we saw last

time it was addressed to, that these were Roman colonies started by Claudius. The same Claudius who we know expelled the Jews from Rome.

And St. Peter identifies himself as writing from Rome.

And so you put those things together, and it makes sense to believe that he would have written this to

some of those sort of exiles. He's been using kind of diaspora language and that kind of exile

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