History, 6.14.5–7). A Roman origin for Mark’s Gospel may also help to explain the use of Latinisms in Mark, that is, Mark’s use of Lat. loanwords and idiomatic phrases (for a list of examples, see Turner, Style 29–30). Early church tradition sometimes seems to place the writing of Mark’s Gospel after the death of Peter (Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 3.1.1.; anti-Marcionite prologue) and sometimes before it (Clement of Alexandria in his Hypotypōseis as recorded in Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, 2.15.1–2;