Peter, the First Epistle of, addressed especially to Jewish Christians in certain churches of Asia Minor, the members of which were suffering persecution at the hands of their adversaries as evil-doers; was written to exhort them to rebut the charge by a life of simple well-doing, and to comfort them under it with the promise of the return of the Lord.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Peter, the Apostle * Peter, the Second Epistle Of