1 Peter
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What Romans wrote about Christians
Two Roman officials, writing sixty years apart, mention Christians in passing while explaining something else. Neither is sympathetic and neither is trying to prove anything — which is exactly what makes the two passages worth more than their length.
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1 Peter
1 Peter: suffering as the central subject, the Greek that complicates the authorship claim, Babylon as a codeword for Rome, and Pliny’s letter from the same provinces.