1 Peter 2:11 → Genesis 23:4

Peter addresses believers as παροίκους καὶ παρεπιδήμους ("sojourners and exiles") — the exact LXX rendering of the gēr + tôšāv pair Abraham coined in Gen 23:4 at Sarah's burial. The paired vocabulary is deliberately retrieved: where Abraham confessed sojourner-status to the Hittites at the city gate, Peter applies the same standing to the Gentile-and-Jewish church scattered through Asia Minor (1 Pet 1:1; 2:11). The theological move universalizes pilgrim-identity as the church's normal condition "between the ages" — already citizens of a heavenly commonwealth (Phil 3:20), not-yet arrived home (Heb 13:14). The ethical force of 1 Pet 2:11 ("abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul") is grounded in this identity: because you are sojourners, don't entangle yourselves in the present world's passions. Peter's allusion completes the longitudinal arc that runs Abraham → Jacob → Leviticus 25:23 → David (Ps 39:12; 1 Chr 29:15) → exile → church.