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Monnier thinks that the thought of James is the more primitive, 

 and that the citation in I Peter is of a homiletical character (Com. 

 p. 270—271). Others take it to be a " proverbial expression not 

 appropriately employed by James." (Cf. Cone's Com. p. 295.) Mayor 

 says : " James makes use of a familiar phrase without regard to 

 the bearing of the context, applying it to the conversion of the erring, 

 while St. Peter keeps the original apphcation " (Com. p. xcix). 

 With this we agree, but on this basis, we are inclined, with Bigg 

 (Com. p. 173), to turn Mayor's argument against himself and infer 

 the priority of I Peter. If our author " keeps the original appli- 

 cation," James cannot have influenced him to any appreciable extent. 

 Bigg gives the following summary of the argument : " If there is 

 any connection here between St. James and St. Peter, it is clear that 

 the former is the borrower, for the connection of his phrase with 

 verse of Proverbs can only be made clear by taking the phrase of 

 the latter as a help. If. St. Peter had not first written ayaTO] 

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 who converteth a sinner xa>>'j']>£i %\riboc, aiJ.ap-vioiv. " (For more 

 complete discussion see Mayor p. 170 f., and Bigg p. 173.) From 

 the above parallels it is obvious that these N. T. authors do not 

 follow either the LXX or the original Hebrew as we now know them. 

 The verbal agreement, therefore, is best explained on the basis of 

 literary dependence, and reasons have not been wanting to give to 

 I Peter the priority. 



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