442 Ora Delmer Foster, 



As a leader of English Conservatives we may quote Sanday (Com. 

 on Rom. Ixxv f.) : " The resemblance " between these parallels 

 " is too great and too constant to be merely accidential. In I Pt. 

 2 ; 6 we have a quotation from the LXX that we find in Rom. 9 ; 32. 

 Not only do we find the same thoughts, such as the metaphorical 

 use of the idea of sacrifice (Rom. 12 ; 1 = I Pt. 2 ; 5), and the same 

 rare words, such as cru(7/Yiva'i-i^£0-Q>at, avuTcoxptxoc, but in one 

 passage (Rom. 13 ; 1 — 7 = I Pt. 2 ; 13—17) we have what must be 

 accepted as conclusive evidence, the same ideas occurring in the 

 same order. Nor can there be any doubt that of the two, the Epistle 

 to the Romans is the earlier. St. Paul works out a thesis clearly and 

 logically ; St. Peter gives a series of maxims for which he is largely 

 indebted to St. Paul. For example in Rom. 13 ; 7 we have a broad 

 general principle laid down, St. Peter, clearly influenced by the 

 phraseology of that passage, merely gives three rules of conduct. 

 In St. Paul the language and ideas come out of the sequence of thought ; 

 in St. Peter they are adopted because they had already been used for 

 the same purpose." For Sanday and Headlam's further argument 

 see note on I Pt. 2 ; 6 = Rom. 9 ; 33. 



Numerous quotations from the " liberal school " might be given 

 in defence of the position here maintained by " conservatives," 

 but let one suffice. Knopf rests the case, " vor allem an den star ken 

 Anleihen, die I Peter bei den Paulusbriefen macht, Anleihen, die das 

 theologische Gedankengut im allgemeinen, aber auch besondere ein- 

 zelne Gedanken in ihrer speziellen Formulierung betreffen. (Vgl. 

 I Pt. 2 ; 13-17 mit Rom. 13 ; 1-7, I Pt. 3 ; 8 f. mit Rom. 12 ; 16 f.) " 

 See " Das nachapostolische Zeitalter " p. 33 f. 



EPHESIANS 

 A* 



a— b 

 (1) I Pt. 1 ; 2 Eph. 1 ; 2 



'/oi^ic, upv xai sipr^vT; X°'p''? ^P^ ^^^'"^ s^p'']^''; 



When considered alone, this parallel means little, but when placed 

 alongside the following parallel which is also in exact verbal agree- 

 ment, it is seen to be very important. It is indeed significant that 

 this precise form occurs when so many others might have been 

 employed. 



