while St. Peter on the contrary dwells exclusively on the example of Christ (cf. 1 Pet. 2:19–24, 4:12–14). So in urging the duty of prayer reference is made, not (as in Heb. 5:7) to the promises or the prayers of Christ, but to the prayer of Elijah: the duty of kindness, and the warning against evil-speaking in ch. 3. are based not on the example of Christ and the thought of our common brotherhood in Him (as in 1 Pet. 2:23, Rom. 12:5, Eph. 4:25), but on the parables of nature, on the fact that man