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Andrew M. Mbuvi’s commentary on Jude and 2 Peter in the New Covenant Commentary series examines the two epistles within their first century Greco-Roman world context, but also considers the benefits of a postcolonial, African, and liberation hermeneutic to interpreting the text. The fusing of these horizons allows the ancient church to speak, but also highlights subjects of pressing concern to...

son of Polemaios, the foremost man of the city, for following in his ancestors’ footsteps in his piety towards the deity (diakeí |menon ek progonōn pros to| theĩon eusebōs).”21 It is in this context that we must understand 2 Peter’s use of eusebeia. It is crucial that not just glory is attributed to God, but virtue (arête) as well. While virtue (arête) occurs three times in 2 Peter [1:3, 5], it is rare in the NT (Phil 4:8; 1 Pet 2:9). But the combination of glory and virtue was common in Hellenistic
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