good … than for doing evil”. Thus, it is the function of 3:18–22 to establish this statement by presenting the example of Christ. So the point of the context is to show “how much power dwells in innocent suffering”. But here, as so often throughout his whole work,16 Vogels’ argumentation is not well founded. By neglecting examples of a negative attitude towards the pagans and by exaggerating the missionary drive of the letter, he misunderstands the strategy of the writer, as he exhorts and encourages