Hellenistic moral philosophy, where it was employed to summarize the writer’s ideal of the good life and the ultimate goal to which it would lead. Our inspired author uses this form to express the truly good life to be realized in Christ and then tells us the goal it will lead to “a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom” (1:11). Other uses of this device appear in the New Testament (Rom 5:3–5; Jas 1:15). Though this is a deliberately Christian list, Peter chooses some terms that appear more often