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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1900 Excerpt:... THE FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL OF PETER. Ch. I. 1-5. Salutation and Thanksgiving. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Oappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. IIETP02 airdoroXos 'ittov XpirToB The whole of this introductory section seems to be modelled on the salutations with which S. Paul begins his Epistles. We can trace in the Gospels the gradual abandonment of the earlier name ' Simon' for 'Simon Peter,' and finally for 'Peter' alone, as here (cp. 'Simon Peter' in 2 Pet. i. 1). The name 59 axo'o-ToXoy probably involved (1) a claim to general as distinguished from localized authority, and (2) an assertion that the authority so claimed had been given directly by Jesus Christ (see S. Luke xxiv. 48; 1 Cor. ix. 1). The word is also used in N.T. in a wider sense more nearly equivalent to our word 'missionary' (see Acts xiv. 4; 2 Cor. viii. 23; Rom. xvi. 7). o XjOto-Toy in the Gospels is a title (The Messiah). In the Epistles, when associated with 'Iija-ovs, it is used without the article as a proper name without altogether losing its older associations. When used alone in this Epistle it retains the significance of the Messiah. See Note on ch. i. 11....