There is clearly an intra-Christian fight over who is the true inheritor of the apostolic tradition, who presents “the way of truth.” To claim to be Peter is certainly to make an authority claim.58 Second Peter attacks the notion that “scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation” (1:20). He is attempting to foreclose interpretation by some people, equating “false prophets” of the past with “destructive opinions” in the present (2:1). Everything is at stake in interpretation; wrong interpretation