The Epistle of St. Jude and the Second Epistle of St. Peter: Greek Text with Introduction, Notes and Comments

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The present volume follows mainly the same lines as my edition of the Epistle of St. James, to which it may be considered to form a sort of appendix, since the study of St. James naturally leads on to the study of one who claims to be his brother, and the study of St, Jude is inseparably connected with that of the Epistle known to us as the Second Epistle of St. Peter. When I began to pay special attention to the last named epistle, I was of course aware of the general weakness of its canonical position as compared with that of the other books of the New Testament; hut my own feeling was that the traditional view must be accepted, unless it could be disproved by positive evidence on the other side; and I was not satisfied that such positive evidence had yet been adduced in proof of its spuriousness. Further consideration, however, of the language, matter, and tone of the two Petrine epistles has gradually forced me to the conclusion already arrived at by Calvin and Grotins, as well as by many modern commentators, that the second epistle is not written by the author of the first epistle - a conclusion which in my view is equivalent to saying that it is not by the Apostle St. Peter. Some have shrunk from this conclusion, because they thought that a falsata epistola, as Bidymus calls it, was unworthy of the place in the canon assigned to it by the Church of the fourth century.

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