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This commentary, the fruit of years of research, is a gold-mine for clergy and an indispensable resource for students and scholars. Achtemeier brings to this text his characteristic mastery of scholarship, theological insight and balanced judgment. This definitive work on 1 Peter is over 460 pages in length but, with the electronic version, has been compiled into one easily searchable file.

20:10*).68 It is in this sense that it is used here, and that in turn helps indicate what the author means with the word αντίδικος. Further description of the devil is supplied by the phrase λέων ὡρυόμενος (“roaring lion”). While this is the only place in the Bible that the devil is so identified,69 the figure of a lion does appear in the OT to describe the opponents of Israel,70 a tradition then also continued at Qumran.71 The word used to define the devil’s desired activity, καταπιεῖν
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