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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 58 THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PETER AND JOSEPHUS. Theeb are two questions in New Testament criticism which have acquired new aspects during the last few years. One of these is the authenticity of the Second Epistle of St. Peter; the other is the key to the interpretation of the Apocalypse. In different ways both questions are of great interest, and it is most desirable that scholars should arrive at that consensus of opinion respecting them which has been gradually attained respecting many other questions, once fiercely disputed, now practically settled. In this paper I have been asked to say a few words on the first of these two questions. I do not of course intend to enter into the whole discussion, but shall confine myself to a single point of capital importance. In 1882 my friend Dr. Abbott published in The ExPositor three original papers on the Second Epistle of St. Peter. The first was headed Had the Author read Josephus ? the second, Had the Author read St. Jude ? The third, Was the Author St. Peter ? l He decided the first and second questions in the affirmative; the third in the negative. In the course of his papers he entered into much minute criticism. I was myself at the time studying these epistles for my Early Days of Christianity, and my deep interest in the subject led me to write a criticism of his views.8 I ventured to give my reasons for differingfrom him on the first question, or at any rate from withholding my assent from what he regarded as absolutely proven. I agreed with him as to the second point, though I did not accept his argument as to the complete inferiority of the author of 2 Peter to St. Jude. On the third question I admitted the existence of difficulties, but endeavoured to prove that the very contemptuous estimate which Dr. Ab...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217797641 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217797644 |
| Weight | 1.01 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 In |
| List Price | $23.56 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 310 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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