First Epistle of Peter. 473 



McGiffert, as against Weiss, claims : " There is no other early- 

 Christian document, by another hand than Paul's, whose Paulinism 

 can begin to compare with that of I Peter. There can be no mista- 

 king the fact that the author was a Paulinist, that his Gospel was the 

 Gospel of Paul, and that his mind was saturated with Paul's ideas " 

 (Apos. Age, p. 485). 



Salmon says : " The Paulinism of Peter's Epistle proceeds be- 

 yond identity of doctrine, and is such as to show that Peter had 

 read some of Paul's letters. In particular the proofs of his 

 acquaintance with the Epistle to the Romans are so numerous 

 and striking as to leave no doubt in my mind. There are isolated 

 coincidences with other Pauline Epistles, but it is with the Epistle 

 to the Ephesians that the affinity is closest. There are several 

 passages in Peter's Epistle which so strongly remind us of passages 

 in the Epistle to the Ephesians, that the simplest explanation of 

 their origin is that they were suggested to the writer by his know- 

 ledge of Paul's Epistles. But the resemblance is often merely in the 

 thoughts, or in the general plan, without any exact reproduction 

 of the words. We might conjecturally explain this difference by- 

 supposing the Epistle to the Romans to have been so long known to 

 St. Peter that he had had time to become familiar with its language, 

 while his acquaintance with the Ephesian Epistle was more recent. " 

 For his argument see Introduction p. 553 f . 



Bennett and Addeney maintain that " Peter here appears as 

 having learned more from Paul than from Christ. There are many 

 allusions to some of Paul's Epistles, certainly Romans and probably 

 Ephesians " (Bib. Int., p. 442). 



" This similarity " — between I Peter and the Pauline epistles — 

 " certainly is traceable and is of a kind to lead us to suppose an ac- 

 quaintance on the writer's part with several of our Pauline epistles." 

 Among the Pauline epistles which the Apostle Peter seems to have had 

 in mind in writing his, were those to the Colossians and Ephesians." 

 Bleek's Int. II, p. 168 f. 



" One seeks in vain in this supposed work of Peter, that head 

 of Jewish Christianity, for a definite distinctness such as is seen in 

 the writings of Paul and John. There are not only to be found 

 in it reminiscences of the Pauline Epistles, which the author without 

 doubt read, but also the doctrine and phraseology are essentially 

 Pauline." (De Wette's Einl. in das N. T. p. 381.) 



Reuss, after giving a list of parallels between I Peter and the 

 Pauline Epistles notes that : " The circumstance that two epistles 



