Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as strangers in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
Of the Dispersion ...  The Greek word from which this comes is Diaspora, which during pre-Christian times was a technical word for the Jews living outside Palestine; in this remarkable passage, Peter preempts all of these glorious words and uses them with a Christian connotation; because, clearly, the epistle is addressed to Christians, not to Jews.  The Christians too, like the Jews after the removal of the ten tribes and the Babylonia captivity, are scattered all over the earth, being separated, not merely from each other, but from the heavenly Jerusalem as well.