Methodius of Olympus
Ante-Nicene · to AD 325
201 passages across 33 books of the Bible · Who was this?
On 1 Peter
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1 Peter 2:6
Thou art He who, for our salvation, was made the head stone of the corner, precious and honourable, declared before to Sion.
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1 Peter 2:9
Hail, thou people of the Lord, thou chosen generation, thou royal priesthood, thou holy nation, thou peculiar people-show forth His praises who hath called you out of darkness into His marvellous light; and for His mercies glorify Him.
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1 Peter 2:10
And hence they sing the Lord's song in a strange land, explaining the law by distorting and degrading it, expecting a sensual kingdom, and setting their hopes on this alien world, which the Word says will pass away,
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1 Peter 5:4
But let us, beloved, return in our discourse to that point whence we digressed, exclaiming, Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord: that good and kind Shepherd, voluntarily to lay down His life for His sheep. That just as hunters take by a sheep the wolves that devour sheep, even so the Chief Shepherd,