The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.
Ver. 13. The Church that is at Babylon] At Rome, say the Papists, that they may prove Peter to have been bishop of Rome. But though this be far fetched, yet here they grant us that mystical Babylon mentioned in the Revelation. It is probable that St Peter meant no other Babylon than the metropolis of Chaldaea, where he, being the apostle of the circumcision, preached to those dispersed Jews, and other Gentiles that he had converted.