# The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. Peter

Author: Lumby, J. Rawson (Joseph Rawson), 1831-1895; Nicoll, W. Robertson (William Robertson), Sir, 1851-1923 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Religion/Spirituality

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42273

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Expositor%27s+Bible%3A+The+Epistles+of+St.+Peter+Lumby&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

This is a very small amount of early evidence, and among the more voluminous writers of the first three centuries we find no mention of the Epistle. We cannot, therefore, be surprised that by Eusebius it is classed among the works of less acceptance. But the same fate befell larger and more important writings than this Epistle. The Apocalypse and the Epistle to the Hebrews stand in the same list in Eusebius. And St. Peter's second letter has not the same general interest as the first, and therefore is likely to have been less widely circulated; and this is all that Eusebius's classification means. The books were not generally received because there was a less general knowledge of their ex...

## Chapters

- [iii. 5-7, and can hardly have been written without a knowledge of the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-expositor-s-bible-the-epistles-of-st-peter-42273/chapters/1/index.md)
- [lxix. 6); and one whose name is a synonym for suffering tells us, "The](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-expositor-s-bible-the-epistles-of-st-peter-42273/chapters/4/index.md)
- [iii. 19 was given as evidence for the descent into hell in Article](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-expositor-s-bible-the-epistles-of-st-peter-42273/chapters/2/index.md)
- [iii. 22) spoken of the fact of Christ's ascension; he is now about to](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-expositor-s-bible-the-epistles-of-st-peter-42273/chapters/6/index.md)
- [xxvi. 11), while the other is one which would impress the Jewish mind](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-expositor-s-bible-the-epistles-of-st-peter-42273/chapters/7/index.md)
- [v. 2), from which passage the words "in the night" have found their](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-expositor-s-bible-the-epistles-of-st-peter-42273/chapters/8/index.md)
- [xxvii. 26, 29) in the description of the wreck at Melita, when the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-expositor-s-bible-the-epistles-of-st-peter-42273/chapters/9/index.md)
- [xxiv. 1, 2) and said that not one stone of it should be left upon](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-expositor-s-bible-the-epistles-of-st-peter-42273/chapters/3/index.md)
- [ix. 31) to have conversed with Moses and Elias of His decease](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-expositor-s-bible-the-epistles-of-st-peter-42273/chapters/5/index.md)