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1 Peter 2:10

Eastern Fathers

Methodius of Olympus

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,

Methodius Discourse III. Thaleia ↗

Western Saints

Bede

Who were once not a people of God, but now are a people of God, etc. He explicitly indicates through these verses that he wrote this Epistle to those who had come to faith from among the Gentiles, who were once alienated from the conversation of the people of God, but now by the grace of faith are united to His people, and have obtained the mercy which they did not know to hope for (Ephes. II). …

Commentary on the Catholic Epistles ↗