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50 (1889); Souter, op. czt. p. 153, citing The New Testament in the Apostolic Fathers (Oxford, 1905)· 3 Chase (DB, ·iii. pp. ), how· ever, gives grounds for believing that Papias referred to our Epistle explicitly as the Epistle of St. Peter. 4 Burton Scott Easton, The Ap11stolic Tradz'tion of Hippolytus; G. H. Dix, The Apostolic Traditz'on. INTRODUCTION (II. 8 The above summary is sufficient to indicate that the attestation of I Peter is widespread, early, and clear; and it derives additional weight from the dubiety which from the earliest times attended the authenticity of 2 Peter and the rest of tbe Petrine literature.
Yet for all that it is not anonymous, but rightly bears the name of St. Peter. Quiller Couch's warning,z • Dibelius, op. cit. p. 7, referring to the style of the Epistles generally. • Quoted by R. W. Chambers in 11-fan's Unconquerable Mz"nd, p. 85. The integrity of the Epistle has been often challenged, but need not detain us here. The extreme " critical " view is represented by Viilter's Der erste Petrusbrief (I906}, where it is urged that the Epistle " wears a mask " of Paulinism, but that all the Pauline passages, and especially all allusions to Christ, are really later interpolations : " the real hero " of I Peter is the Church, as is shewn by ii.
3 Some cannot think of personality except in terms of striking individual characteristics. T. Tetu:lairsg-, p. 48, and cf. pp. , 45· Cf. Sp<>rri'a contrast between the picture of the Church found in I Clement, Ignatius, and Hennas, and even in St. Paul and St. John, and that of I Peter, and his conclusion that" such a document [aa I Peter] belongs to genuine primitive Christianity ", a view also held by Monnier, "C'est la piete meme du premier age qui se revele dans ses traits essentiels" (Spi:irri, op.