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Ora Delmer Foster 



The following table will show the sequence of the foregoing parallels. 



I Peter 



1 



1 



2 



2 



2 



2 



3 



3 



3 



3 



4 



5 



7 



10 



13 



16 



17 



18 



18 



20 



20 



21 



1 



Eph 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 3 

 6 

 4 

 6 



: 4 



■■ 1 



: 3 



: 1 



: 1 



: 4 



esians 

 1 

 4 

 5 

 3 

 5 

 2 

 3 

 7 



18 

 20 

 18 

 13 

 14 

 5 



14 



18, 22 

 9 

 17 

 7 



11, 1 ; 4 

 10 

 20 

 22, 25, 31 



SUMMARY 

 Other points of likeness and similar combinations have been noted 

 by such men as Chase, Holtzmann, Scharfe, Weiss, Monnier, Abbott, 

 Hort, Westcott, Cone, etc., but these will be sufficient to show the 

 real or apparent dependence of one author upon the other. Though 

 no one reference may prove dependence conclusively the cumulative 

 evidence of a succession of forty-five parallels, at lowest count, is 

 indeed formidable. The thought and many of the expressions are 

 the same in I Pt. 1 ; 1—7 and Eph. 1, even to verbal agreement. 

 The fact that the parallels in I Pt. 1 ; 1— 7 are all in the first chapter 

 of Ephesians, and that, on the whole, they show progress in the 

 Ephesian order almost precludes doubt at the very outset, as to the 

 relationship between the Epistles. (For order see the above table.) 

 The close similarity in the salutation and final greetings, the 

 sequence of thought, which is obscured by analysis, and the gene- 

 ral structure, to say nothing of similar Christology, go to show not 



