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Fred B. Craddock examines the letters of First and Second Peter and Jude, asking, what kind of literature is it? who wrote the letter? to whom was the letter written? and for what purpose was the letter written? Craddock’s answers let us draw from these often undervalued epistles an awareness of what is involved in living a Christian life in this world. We also see the similarities and...

If some of you study this unit in a group where several translations are used, attention will be drawn to noticeable differences in the readings. These are not due solely to a range of ways of translating the same Greek words. The fact is, many of the Greek manuscripts (we have more than 5,000) differ in the wording of these two verses. For example, “have mercy” and “convince” translate very similar words in verse 22; some manuscripts have one, some the other. A number of you will have Bibles with
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