“... an interesting possibility posits influence from 1 Peter and/or James. Just as II John is addressed to an ‘Elect Lady’ (church), so 1 Peter 1:1 is addressed to ‘elect sojourners of the diaspora [diasporas]’; and just as II John ends with a greeting from an ‘Elect Sister’ (church), 1 Peter 5:13 ends with a greeting from ‘the Co-elect Woman [church] in Babylon.’ The audiences of the two Catholic Epistles may have been judged by scribes to have been the same, and the Greek diasporas may have been rendered ‘scattered abroad’ in such a way as to suggest the addressees of II John. The scribes who made such specifications were not without New Testament analogies, e.g., ‘The churches of Asia send you greetings’ (1 Corinthians 16:19). The closest parallel is 1 Peter 5:13: ‘The Co-elect Woman in Babylon sends you greetings’ ...”