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mere possibility. Nor can he justify A. Resch (Agrapha p. 248) in 

 his conclusion that both I Peter and I Clement are quoting a tradi- 

 tional saying of our Lord. (N. T. in A. F. p. 56—57. Clement's 

 mind was certainly and deeply imbued with I Cor. 13. There is, 

 however, no record that Paul ever alluded to this passage in Pro- 

 verbs. The fact that this exact form of the quotation is to be found 

 nowhere earlier than I Peter is indeed significant. Though Jas. 

 5 ; 20 and Prov. 10 ; 12 are similar, it seems evident that if there 

 is dependence anywhere it is on our Epistle. It is also to be noted 

 that Clem. 49 ; 6 is quite suggestive of I Peter. This parallel affords 

 no conclusive proof that Clement used I Peter, but in view of the 

 other parallels and quotations common to both Epistles, we are 

 justified in regarding this verbatim agreement as \-ery important. 



(5) I Clem. 59 ; 2 I Pt. 2 ; 9 



Bt' oO ExaX£G-£v rii)M<; o(.%b oxotou? toO sx crxoTOU^ (j[x6tc, xa}^£(javTO$ 

 tic (pw?, 36 ; 2 zic, to Q-aui^ao-Tov si? ■zo S'aufj.aTTOv a'j-oij (poii; 

 auToO cpwc. Cf. Eph. 1 ; 18, 5 ; 

 8—14. 



This is a closer parallel to the above passage in I Clement than is 

 to be found elsewhere in the N. T. In fact the two references in 

 I Clement reproduce both the thought and phraseology of I Peter. 

 Similar thought appears in Ephesians but the form is much different. 

 The use of the word sxtcrxoTuov v. 3, finds its closest N. T. parallel 

 in I Pt. 2 ; 25. Clement speaks of God as the bishop of 7:v£U[j.a-o)v 

 while our author makes Christ the bishop of dju/wv. In the same 

 context both writers employ the same metaphorical expression for 

 the believers, i. e., Tupopaxa. The doctrine of election Bia Xpi(7T0t> 

 (cf. 64 ; 1) is particularly Petrine. Cf. I Pt. 1 ; 2, 21, 2 ; 9, 3 ; 18, 

 5 ; 10. It is important to note that " election through Christ " is 

 thought of in both instances as a " calling from darkness to light. 

 The similarities of thought and expression in chap. 59, make depen- 

 dence here very probable. 



(6) I Clem. 1 ; 3 I Pt. 1 ; 17 



a7rpo<7(07ro};T^p.xTco? a;cpoo-(oxo>.Yi[j.xi:w? 



Dependence here is made very probable since this word, which 

 is not found elsewhere in the N. T., appears in a context suggestive 

 of our text, which context also contains another word peculiar 



