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	Second Epistle of Peter - Theopedia
		The second epistle of Peter was written to warn Christians about false teachers and to exhort them to grow in their faith in and knowledge of Christ.
		The second epistle of Peter is generally attributed to the apostle Peter as the letter opens with salutation "Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ," however there are some questions concerning the authenticity of this claim.
		The Authorship of Second Peter, by Hampton Keathley
	www.theopedia.com /2_Peter (489 words)

	First Epistle of Peter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter's own amanuensis was the evangelist Mark, according to Clement of Alexandria and other early Christian writers.
		Some scholars reject both Peter and Silvanus as authors, and date its composition during the reign of the emperor Domitian (AD 81 - 96), from its reference to persecution of Christians, which had not occurred until the persecution under Nero, in which Peter was martyred himself.
		This epistle is addressed to "the strangers scattered abroad", though it otherwise appears to be addressed to Gentiles rather than to the Jews of the Diaspora.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Epistle_of_Peter (589 words)

	Second Epistle of Peter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This epistle presciently declares that it is written shortly before the apostle's death (1:14).
		Those who argue for an earlier date for 2 Peter usually support this claim with the lack of references to the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and for elements involving the "false teachers/prophets" that are regarded as more exemplary of earlier deviations than the Gnosticism of the mid-2nd century.
		There are several points of contact with the Apocalypse of Peter and it is for this reason that many early scholars were hesitant to accept the work (e.g., Polybius), in fear that it would lead to an eventual acceptance of the clearly pseudonymous Apocalypse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Second_Epistle_of_Peter (765 words)

	Second Epistle of Peter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-13)
		A critic who accepts Peter as the Simeon Peter assumes that Paul's letters to the various churches were collected and edited and published for all to read by the early 60s, when Peter died.
		Epistle (in Scripture) The Old Testament exhibits two periods in its idea of an epistle: first, it presents the epistle under the general concept of a book or a writing; secondly, it regards the epistle as a distinct literary form.
		Hebrews, Epistle to the The central thought of the entire Epistle is the doctrine of the Person of Christ and His Divine mediatorial office.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Second_Epistle_of_Peter.html (802 words)

	Peter, Second Epistle of (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		The question of the authenticity of this epistle has been much discussed, but the weight of evidence is wholly in favor of its claim to be the production of the apostle whose name it bears.
		A few years ago, among other documents, a parchment fragment, called the "Gospel of Peter," was discovered in a Christian tomb at Akhmim in Upper Egypt.
		Though apocryphal, it is of considerable value as showing that the main facts of the history of our Lord were then widely known.
	www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/petersecondepistleof.html (207 words)

	Encyclopedia: First Epistle of Peter
		The Epistle to the Ephesians is one of the books of the Bible in the New Testament, traditionally said to be written by Paul at Rome about the same time as that to the Colossians, which in many points it resembles.
		The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, also known as the Second Letter to the Thessalonians, is a book from the New Testament of the Christian Bible.
		An epistle is a writing directed or sent to a person or group of persons, usually a letter and a very formal, often didactic and elegant one.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/First-Epistle-of-Peter (2103 words)

	Second Epistle of Peter
		Now, all this tends to prove that the writer of the Second Epistle was well acquainted with the peculiarity of diction employed in the First, and that he made use purposely of its uncommon terms, or, if the Second was written by another than the apostle, he succeeded surprisingly well in imitating his style.
		Peter adds, “And we have the word of prophecy made more sure.” The Transfiguration has confirmed what the prophets say touching the future and God's purpose to fill the earth with His glory; every word He has spoken is to be made good.
		Peter and his fellow-believers did not follow “cunningly devised fables”; they were borne along in their prophetic utterances by the Spirit.
	www.astheoracles.org /index-153.htm (3399 words)

	Second Epistle of Peter -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-13)
		The Second Epistle of Peter is a book of the (The collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other Epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible) New Testament of the (The sacred writings of the Christian religions) Bible.
		This epistle contains eleven references to the (The collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible) Old Testament.
		A critic who accepts Peter as the Simeon Peter assumes that Paul's letters to the various churches were collected and edited and published for all to read by the early (The cardinal number that is the product of ten and six) 60s, when Peter died.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/se/second_epistle_of_peter.htm (594 words)

	Second Epistle of Peter - Wikipedia
		The Second Epistle of Peter is a book of the Bible New Testament, written by Peter.
		Some have questioned whether Peter was the author, because the linguistic style is simpler than the First Epistle of Peter.
		Many scholars believe this is because Peter had assistance in writing the first epistle, and therefore the second epistle is actually Peter's own unaided writing.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/2_Peter (287 words)

	Barnes New Testament Notes \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-13)
		This epistle appears to have been written, not so much in view of persecutions and bodily sufferings, —real or prospective, as in view of the fact that there were teachers of error among them, the tendency of whose doctrine was to turn them away from the gospel.
		It is evident that Peter supposed that the danger to which Christians in Asia Minor were exposed from these errors, was not less than that to which they were exposed from persecution, and that it was of as much importance to guard them from those errors as it was to sustain them in their trials.
		This epistle is characterised by the same earnest and tender manner as the first, and by a peculiarly "solemn grandeur of imagery and diction." The apostle in the last two chapters had to meet great and dangerous errors, and the style of rebuke was appropriate to the occasion.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/barnes/ntnotes.xxiii.i.i.html (3596 words)

	Peter, The Second Epistle Of (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools
		In the First, judgment had begun at the house of God (1 Peter 4:17-18), and believers were to arm, not to resist their persecutors, but for martyrdom (1 Peter 4:1).
		Of course in 2 Peter 3:5-13, where the three worlds are spoken of, three globes are not meant, but three vast epochs, three enormous periods in earth's history.
		Peter's second world is "the heavens that now are, and the earth" (2 Peter 3:7).
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/6840 (3507 words)

	The Authenticity of the Second Epistle of Peter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-13)
		Second, in 3: 15, 16, the writer writes to his readers as if the letters of Paul were well known to them.
		Also the "Second Epistle of Peter," and those called "The Second and Third of John," whether they are of some other of the same name.
		In between are those who see the possibility that Peter wrote some of it, but that someone who may have known Peter wrote the rest of it, or that this person wrote all of it.
	www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk /Scriptures/www.innvista.com/scriptures/compare/secpeter.htm (2344 words)

	Second Epistle of Peter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-13)
		Scholars agreethat it depends on the Epistle of Jude and should be dated later thanthat epistle, perhaps as late as AD 140.
		Part of the case for a date no earlier that the second century AD is the internal evidence of 3:15, 16, where the writerassumes that the letters of Paul are well known to his readers.
		A critic who accepts Peter as theSimeon Peter assumes that Paul's letters to the various churches were collected and edited and published for all to read by theearly 60s, when Peter died.
	www.therfcc.org /second-epistle-of-peter-95532.html (467 words)

	Peter, the Second Epistle of - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		Now, all this tends to prove that the writer of the Second Epistle was well acquainted with the peculiarity of diction employed in the First, and that he made use purposely of its uncommon terms, or, if the Second was written by another than the apostle, he succeeded surprisingly well in imitating his style.
		Peter adds, "And we have the word of prophecy made more sure." The Transfiguration has confirmed what the prophets say touching the future and God's purpose to fill the earth with His glory; every word He has spoken is to be made good.
		Peter and his fellow-believers did not follow "cunningly devised fables"; they were borne along in their prophetic utterances by the Spirit.
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T6840 (3515 words)

	The Second Epistle of Peter :: FB Hole
		Peter, however, was writing to people who had from the days of their fathers cherished the hope of Messiah's kingdom, and who had lived to see Him rejected and crucified.
		Peter therefore warned these early Christians that they must be on their guard against false teachers who would bring in privily "damnable" or "destructive" heresies.
		Now at the close of the second Epistle he specifically names him and not only "all his epistles" in a general way but also some special writing or epistle which he had addressed to them, according to the wisdom given him from on high.
	www.biblecentre.org /commentaries/fbh_65_2peter.htm (8559 words)

	The Second General Epistle of Peter, New Testament Introduction - Louis Berkhof (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-13)
		And while in the first Epistle there is a free interchange of prepositions, we often find a repetition of the same preposition in the second, f.
		The principle objections to the genuineness of II Peter are the following: (1)The Language of the Epistle is so different from that of I Peter as to preclude the possibility of their proceeding from the same author.
		They who deny the authenticity of the Epistle generally place it somewhere between the years 90 and 175, for such reasons as its dependence on Jude and on the Apocalypse of Peter, its reference to Gnosticism, and its implication respecting the existence of a New Testament canon.
	www.dabar.org /NewTestament/Berkhof/Epipet2.htm (2826 words)

	2 Peter - Chapter 1 - Barnes' Notes on the New Testament on StudyLight.org
		Lardner supposes, from 2 Peter 1:13-15 of this epistle, that this was written not long after the first, as he then says that he "would not be negligent to put them in remembrance of these things." The two epistles he supposes were written in the year 63 or 64, or at the latest 65.
		In 1 Peter 3:1, the writer says, "this second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance." This epistle was written, therefore, to the same persons as the former.
		Probably Peter here refers particularly to statements respecting the coming of the Saviour in his first epistle, (1 Peter 1:5,13; 4:13;) but this was a common topic in the preaching, and in the epistles, of the apostles.
	www.studylight.org /com/bnn/view.cgi?book=2pe&chapter=1&verse=1 (11918 words)

	Second Epistle of Peter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-13)
		The opening verse identifies itself as been written by Simeon Peter who has identified with Saint Peter although nowhere else in the New is he referred to as both Simeon (the Aramaic form of Simon) and Peter.
		The editors of Barclay's New Testament the epistle's style as "florid rhetorical and Some scholars explain this difference by explaining Peter had assistance in writing his first from Barnabas and therefore the second epistle is Peter's own unaided writing.
		Part of the case for a date earlier than the second century is the evidence of 3:15 16 where the writer that the letters of Paul are well to his readers.
	www.freeglossary.com /Second_Epistle_of_Peter (660 words)

	Holy Apostles Peter and Paul
		Peter's three renunciations of Christ (on the eve of Christ's Crucifixion) was washed away with bitter tears of repentance.
		Apostle Peter's reason for writing the Epistle was his wish to "strengthen your brethren" (Luke 22:31-32) when disagreements arose in these communities, and also when they were persecuted by the enemies of Christ.
		Apostle Peter's final years were spent in Rome, from which it can be concluded that the second Epistle was written there in the nature of a "death-bed" testament.
	www.fatheralexander.org /booklets/english/saints/peter_paul_apostles.htm (2994 words)

	Encyclopedia: Second Epistle of Peter
		Saint Peter, portrayed by Peter Paul Rubens in a papal chasuble and pallium holding keys, was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus and the first Pope of the Catholic Church.
		The recovered Apocalypse of Peter or Revelation of Peter is extant in two translations of a lost original, one Greek, one Ethiopic, which diverge considerably.
		Categories: New Testament books In Christianity, the First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Second-Epistle-of-Peter (1830 words)

	SECOND PETER
		Peter was crucified about A.D. 64 so he could not have used Jude as a source, yet there are remarkable similarities in both subject and order in their messages, yet with little actual quotation.
		Peter ends his letter with an affectionate reference to “beloved brother Paul” which would be appropriate if they were both in prison for their Faith, which is what tradition records.
		Peter, perhaps remembering his own time of denial, begs his readers to not fall from steadfastness and to grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
	www.angelfire.com /la3/baldisbeautiful/second_peter.htm (673 words)

	Comments On Epistle Of 2 Peter :: LM Grant
		This epistle maintains still the principles of God's government, though being a second epistle it contemplates conditions of failure and breakdown for which special grace is needed.
		Nor did Peter grow weary of this ministry of putting the saints in remembrance of the truth: he considered it fully becoming as long as he lived on earth, which indeed at the longest is very brief for any of us.
		If some of these things are hard to be understood, Peter does not for that reason dismiss them, nor does he excuse, those who are ignorant and unstable for the way in which they wrest these and other Scriptures, that is, twisting their meaning to suit them-selves.
	www.biblecentre.org /commentaries/lmg_65_2_peter.htm (4898 words)

	Rejection of Pascal's Wager:The Authorship of the Petrine Epistles
		I and II Peter clearly claims to be written by the apostle Peter himself.
		Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia
		Secondly, the epistle is very closely related, both in style and content to the epistle of Jude, in itself a very late work, definitely written during the second century CE (probably around 125 CE).
	www.geocities.com /paulntobin/authorpeter.html (2217 words)

	1way2God.net - 2 Peter (Printer-friendly)
		Note also that it is more likely that Peter would use the original form of his name than an imitator, as an imitator would simply have copied the form used in the earlier epistle.
		For example, the previously mentioned introduction: 'apostle and servant of Jesus' (1:1); and the indications that he was a friend of Paul (3:15), that he was a witness to the transfiguration (1:16-18), and that he had previously written a letter to the same recipients (3:1).
		If Peter was the author (as the above discussion tentatively indicates), the letter must have been written by 68 AD (as Peter died at c.68 AD the latest), but probably in the 60s at some point.
	www.1way2god.net /printerfriendly/2peter.html (725 words)

	OE - 2 Peter 2
		Peter here shows the contrast between the sight and sound of the transfiguration to the sight and sounds of the cities of the plain.
		Peter's First Epistle, although never using this word, speaks throughout of the things related to the promises of God, if only the basic tenets of the faith are adhered to.
		Peter was the apostle delegated to serve his Jewish brethren, and he did this with zeal.
	www.voicenet.com /~lelgee/peter/2peter2.html (3938 words)

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