Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
"Peter’s purpose is not to define his readers’ actual legal or social status in the Roman Empire . . . but simply to further his standing analogy between them and the Jewish people (cf. Hebrews 11:13 . . .)." [Note: Ibid., p. 116.] 