ACC ~ 1 Peter 2 v10

THE NEW PEOPLE OF THE CIRCUMCISION. ORIGEN: O people of God, chosen to expound the virtues of the Lord: take up the circumcision worthy of the Word of God in your ears, on your lips, in your heart and in the foreskin of your flesh, as well as in every part of you. Sermons on Genesis 3.5.

BELIEVING GENTILES NOW GOD’S PEOPLE. DIDYMUS THE BLIND: This verse means that Gentiles who were not God’s people before they believed have now been called by him and have come to him. Some people think that Peter is talking about a mixture of beings who are both good and bad by nature, but their interpretation comes up against many serious objections. You cannot say of spiritual beings that there was once a time when they were not a people and when they lacked mercy, nor can you say of earthly beings that they have been turned into a people or received mercy. Therefore I believe that that is the wrong interpretation of this verse. COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER.

ONE HOLY PEOPLE. ANDREAS: When people from different races and nations are called to abandon all their differences and to take on one mind, drawing near to him by one faith and one teaching, by which the soul and the heart become one, they are one holy people. CATENA.

BROUGHT NEAR BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. BEDE: These words are taken from the prophet Hosea and confirm what Paul also said: “You were strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now you who were once far off have been brought near in the blood of Christ.” ON 1 PETER.