highly coloured, effusive and pompous than that of its predecessor; it slips readily into iambic rhythms, its choice of words is bookish and artificial and its constructions laboured; and while particles of liaison, hebraisms and participles are much rarer, the article is more frequent and the proportion of hapaxes markedly higher (the highest in the NT). There are also important theological discrepancies between the two letters, and even where their themes overlap they tend to be expressed in different