She who is in Babylon, chosen together with you, greets you; and so does Mark, my son.
What are some of the spiritual implications of such a designation?  (1) Just as ancient Babylon was a center of enmity and oppression of God's people, so Rome had become in the times of the apostles.  (2) As Babylon was destroyed, so shall Rome also be destroyed.  (3) Peter reminds his readers afresh that they, as the Israel of God, are "exiles in a foreign land,"[37] as were the ancient Jews in Babylon.  (4) "The point of the allegory is that Rome was becoming the oppressor of the new Israel, not that it was the center of the world."[38]