As strangers and pilgrims; there seems to be a double allusion here: first, to their literal dispersion in foreign lands, chap 1 Peter 1:1; secondly, to their being pilgrims and strangers upon earth, which their literal sojourn among foreigners well shadowed forth. 1 Chronicles 29:15; Hebrews 11:9-10, compared with verses 1 Peter 2:13-16. From all gratifications which injure the soul, or tend to hinder its salvation, the gospel requires total abstinence.

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