414 Or a Delmer Foster, 



sxtO-u|jiat<;, o?vocp>>iiYtai?, xo)[;.otc, s/O-pai spsi?, ^vj^ot, Q-up-ol, spit^sTat,, 



peiai? [ji9>ai, 7vO)[j.ot . . . 



Holtzmann thinks the similarity may show dependence, (Einl. 

 p. 314,) yet there seems to be nothing to commend it over and above 

 Eph. 2 ; 2, 3, 4 ; 17, I Thes. 4 ; 5, Tit. 3 ; 3, Rom. 13 ; 13, I Cor. 6 ; 

 9, Eph. 5 ; 5, etc. 



Although the parallels are not numerous, and there are no words 

 found only in these two Epistles, the combined evidence of those 

 examples classed as " b — c " and " c " make it quite probable that 

 there is here a hterary dependence. Scholars are almost unanimous, 

 of course, in giving to " Galatians " the priority. Bigg, however, 

 thinks " if a writer caUing himself Peter had read Galatians he would 

 have made distinct allusion to the second chapter." The fact that 

 no such allusion is to be found in I Peter may be regarded as a strong 

 indirect argument in favor of its authenticity." Now our interest 

 here is not whether the Epistle is authentic or not, but we are inter- 

 ested in the relative positions of these two Writings. Does it not 

 seem, though, that the silence would be quite as natural for one 

 "calling himself Peter" as for Peter himself? Certainly Peter 

 would have chafed at such scathing allusions, while a later writer 

 would not feel the sting of the thrust at Peter. Furthermore the 

 letter comes, more probably, from a later period of mediation, though 

 not so late as the Tubingen School would contend. To say " the 

 author's silence, if writing before Galations, is natural " is almost 

 naive. The circumstances under which the letter was written and 

 the conditions revealed in it make it impossible to suppose it to 

 have been written at such an early period. 



I THESSALONIANS 

 D 



d 



(1) I Pt. 1 ; 1.3 I Thes. 5 ; G 



vYjcpovTS?, -vtkzioyq zhzirrccTt . . yp-^iyopw^sv xai vrjcpto^asv. Cf . 5 ; 



A closer parallel is to be found in Rom. 13 ; 11 — 13. 



(2) I Pt. 1 ; 14 I Thes. 4 ; 5 



