The longest motivating sections in the letter can be characterized as Christological: 1:18–21; 2:4–8, 21–24; 3:18–19, 21–22. Shorter corresponding expressions can also, for example, be found in: 1:2, 3, 7, 11; 2:3; 4:1, 13. The thesis about Christology as the ‘ultimate and actual rationale for the ethical admonitions’ in 1 Peter has after Lohse become an axiom in the research.36 My analysis of the argumentation, however, has shown that, despite the length and importance,