he wrote his epistle, devoted himself to intellectual cultivation as a part of his discipleship unto the Lord Jesus. By the time the opportunity presented itself for him to address a dispersed group of Greek Christians, some of them well-educated, he was up to the task. Even if we grant that Silvanus polished Peter’s style (compare 1 Peter 5:12), there were limits to the degree that a scribe could exercise such polishing, and Peter’s grammar would have been better than average and certainly an improvement