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parallels in the non-Petrine portion of Acts all show strong Pauline 

 influence. Our study has revealed many suggestive points of con- 

 tact between Acts and I Peter, yet they are not such as to justify 

 the conclusion that one author knew the work of the other. If 

 there is any dependence it would seem that " Luke " is the borrower. 

 It is generally agreed that Luke, the author of the " we document," 

 was a disciple of Paul. Our author also appears to have been a 

 student of Paul. Consequently these authors would naturally have 

 similar thoughts and forms of expression and still be independent 

 of each other. The resemblances between I Peter and Acts 1 — 12 

 are due, it would seem, not to a common Petrine source, but (1) to 

 the dependence of our author upon the Pauline Epistles and (2) to 

 the influence of Paul upon the author of Acts. That is to say, the 

 common source is PauHne rather than Petrine. 



JAMES 

 A* 



b 



(1) I Pt. 1 ; 6, 7 Jas. 1 ; 2, 3 



£v (b ayalliaa-O'e, oliyov ap^i d xacrav /apav riyr^tjCCGb-z . . . oxav 



Beov Xu%rib'iv^zc, Iv 7:oiyiiXoic, tcsi- Tceipacp-oTc TOptTcsTYjxs Tzoi-aikoiq (3) 



pa(7[j.oT5 (7) ivoc TO Boxt[iiov 6[xcov ytvcocrxovTE? oTt to toyiiisiov 6[j.cov 



xric, xio-Te(oc zric, tcig-tsw^ xaTspya^sirat 



Nearly all commentators have recognized a dependence between 

 these two passages. Mayor says : " it is proven beyond all doubt 

 by the recurrence in both phrases %oixikoi^ TC£ipac-[J.oTc and to Bo- 

 xi[j.i,ov u[)MV TTji; ro(7T£w? with its usual order of words. Assuming 

 then, as we must, that one copied from the other, we find the 

 trial of faith illustrated in I Peter (as in Ps. 66 ; 10, Prov. 17 ; 3, 

 Job 23 ; 10, Zech. 13 ; 9, Mai. 3 ; 3) by the trying of the precious 

 metals in the fire ; we find also the addition, oliyov ocpTi, e? Bsov, 

 AuxYjS-svTe?, which looks as if it were intended to soften down the 

 uncompromising Stoicism of St. James' xaaav /apav riyri(Toc(jb-s" . 

 (Com. on Jas. p. xcvi.) That there is here a case of depen- 

 dence, practically all agree, yet the order of dependence many 

 question, nstpaajj-ot? %oi7.iXoii seems somewhat weak prior to the 

 Neronian persecution, which is assumed in the argument, inasmuch 

 as it refers in I Peter to " trials and persecutions of the Christi- 

 ans". (For ■Kzipo(.<y\).6(; see any Gk. Lex. Cf. also Cone's com. 

 p. 273 ; Schmidt and Holzendorf Com. Ill, p. 158 ; etc.) 



