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If we accept the apostle Peter as the author, the letter was probably written in the 60s. Persecution was in the air, and this points to Nero’s reign, the traditional time and occasion of Peter’s death. There is little in the way of ecclesiastical organization, an indication that the letter is early. Everything fits together if the letter was written from Rome not long before the apostle was put to death. 15 Those who reject Petrine authorship mostly look ahead to the persecution under Domitian (toward the end of the first century) or to that in the time of Trajan (early second century).