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The Apocalypse of Peter: Greek Text and Collected Fragments
ANF historical edition · Edition commentary
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Translator and historical edition notes
False prophets. Cf . Matt. vii. 15; xxiv. 5, 11 . Cf . Pastor of Hermas, Mand . xi.
Sons of perdition. Cf . 2 Peter ii. 1–3; iii. 7, 16; 2 Thess. ii. 3 , and Ep. of Lyons and Vienne, Euseb. H. E . v. 1.
Purify their souls. Cf . 2 Peter i. 18 . Sons of lawlessness. Cf . Pastor Herm. Vis . iii. 6.
Mountain. Cf . 2 Peter i. 18 .
The righteous. Cf . 2 Peter i. 1; iii. 19 . What manner of. Cf . 2 Peter iii. 11 . Encourage. Cf . Pastor Herm. Vis . iii. 3.
Not able to look. Cf . 2 Cor. iii. 7 ff.
Eye of man, etc. Cf . 1 Cor. ii. 9 .
Snow and rose. Cf . Bk. of Enoch cvi. 2.
Wreath. Cf . Ep. of Lyons and Vienne, ap. Euseb. H. E . v. 1, 36.
Apparently all the disciples are supposed to have had the vision of heaven, but Peter alone that of hell. Unfading. Cf . 1 Peter i. 4 .
Odour. Cf . Ep. of Lyons and Vienne, l. c., and Passion of S. Perpetua, ch. xiii.
High priests. Cf . Didache 13, 3.
Squalid. Cf . 2 Peter i. 19 . Punishment. Cf . 2 Peter ii. 9 . Punishing angels. Cf . Pastor Herm. Sim . vi. 3. Dark. Cf . Jude, vv. 6 and 13 .
Blasphemers. Cf . 2 Peter ii. 12 ; Pastor Herm. Sim . viii. 6; ix. 18. Fire. Cf . 2 Peter iii. 7 .
Mire. Cf . 2 Peter ii. 22 . Pervert righteousness. Cf . Pastor Herm. Sim . viii. 6. Cf . Titus i. 14 .
Cf . Jude 7 . Defilement. Cf . 2 Peter ii. 10, 14, 17, 20; Jude 8 . Cf . Pastor Herm. Sim . vi. 5.
Darkness. Cf . 2 Peter ii. 17 . Worms. Cf . Isaiah lxvi. 24; Mark ix. 48 .
Restless worms. Cf . Isaiah lxvi. 24; Mark ix. 48 . Cf . Esdras, Ante-Nicene Lib., vol. xvi., p. 472; Pastor Herm. Sim . ix. 19; viii. 6.
Slandered. Cf . 2 Peter ii. 2; Jude 8, 10 .
False witnesses. Cf . Hermas. Mand . viii. 5.
The rich, etc. Cf . 2 Peter ii. 14 . Cf . Pastor Herm. Vis . iii. 9; Sim . ix. 20; Sim . i. 8, and Mand . viii. 5. Commandment. Cf . 2 Peter ii. 21; iii. 2 .
Defiled. 2 Peter ii. 10 . Cf . Rom. i. 26 ff.; Jude 8 .
Way of God. 2 Peter ii. 2 . Pastor Herm. Vis . iii. 7; viii. 6; ix. 19, 22.
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