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2 Peter and Jude: An Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The epistle of 2 Peter has had a very rough passage down the centuries,” says Michael Green in this commentary. “Its entry into the Canon was precarious in the extreme … It was deemed second-class Scripture by Luther, rejected by Erasmus, and regarded with hesitancy by Calvin.” And about Jude he says, “We can learn a great deal about a man by listening to what he has to say about himself. Jude...

him,9 selected a list of virtues which should be found in a healthy Christian life. The practice of making lists of virtues was already well established among the Stoics, who called it a prokopē, ‘moral advance’. Bo Reicke, commenting on this adaptation of Stoic material, says rightly, ‘he did not wish to Hellenize the church, but only employed such expressions because they would be familiar to his readers’. The great difference between Stoic and Christian ethics is that the latter are not the unaided
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