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@davetaff@DeborahHello both,Perhaps this epistle was that 'writing' of Paul, referred to in 2 Peter 3:15. 'And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.'(2 Pet. 3:15-16) * If that is so, then we have an idea as to who these Hebrew believers were, don't we?'Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.'(1Pet. 1:1-2) * Many of these Hebrew believers would have been in Jerusalem at Pentecost, witnessed the happening, and heard the words spoken by Peter and the twelve, in which they heard them preach in the languages of their adopted countries (Acts 2:7-11). They would have gone back after the feast to their own homes among the nations, and told others of the words they had heard, and others would have believed because of their witness. It is to them that Peter wrote, as an Apostle to the circumcision (Galatians 2:7-9), and possibly, to whom Paul wrote this epistle, his brethren after the flesh (Rom.9:1-5).Thank you.In Christ JesusCariad