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Monday, April 02, 2007
Comp.LiT
Grab a Bible if you have one. Go to the back. Read 2 Peter; the whole book. Flip a few pages further. Read Jude. Pause. Notice anything? Let me know what you discover.
I noticed they open with similar greetings, and they touch on a lot of the same stuff, particularly in 2 Peter 2. There's condemnation of false teachers, or false Christians, or backsliders. "Springs without water"/"clouds without rain". "Blackest darkness". Lots about "instinct" and "mere natural instincts". "Brute beasts"/"unreasoning animals". The stuff about slandering celestial beings. Angels in prison until the judgment. Allusions to Sodom and other early OT stories. Both end with a call to perseverance. Oh, and Peter mentions "cleverly invented stories", of the sort that Jude quotes from.
What do you think? It sounds like Peter was a big fan of Jude, or vice versa.
Good comments, Jake. You'll find more than just mere allusions to similar content if you read the two in the NAS translations. Some of Jude's content is almost II Peter verbatim, though the styling, content shift and certain word usage in Jude tends one to lean towards Jude's epistle as a later "forward" (to use e-mailing convention) version of Peter's original content. Take a peek in NASB. It's fun :)
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I noticed they open with similar greetings, and they touch on a lot of the same stuff, particularly in 2 Peter 2. There's condemnation of false teachers, or false Christians, or backsliders. "Springs without water"/"clouds without rain". "Blackest darkness". Lots about "instinct" and "mere natural instincts". "Brute beasts"/"unreasoning animals". The stuff about slandering celestial beings. Angels in prison until the judgment. Allusions to Sodom and other early OT stories. Both end with a call to perseverance. Oh, and Peter mentions "cleverly invented stories", of the sort that Jude quotes from.
What do you think? It sounds like Peter was a big fan of Jude, or vice versa.
Or maybe we should be searching for, let's say, the R document.
Good comments, Jake.
You'll find more than just mere allusions to similar content if you read the two in the NAS translations. Some of Jude's content is almost II Peter verbatim, though the styling, content shift and certain word usage in Jude tends one to lean towards Jude's epistle as a later "forward" (to use e-mailing convention) version of Peter's original content. Take a peek in NASB. It's fun :)
I was going to post "they are both boring" just to be a smartass, but now that jacob summarizes them they both sound interesting...
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