“A strong case can be made for Peter’s authorship of the second epistle attributed to him. Yet such arguments are for the most part ignored in modern discussions and one may be permitted to wonder how many minds are influenced less by the evidence against Petrine authorship than by the fact that the opinio communis of modern scholarship regards the evidence against it as decisive.”
“Internal Criticism as a Criterion for Authorship in the New Testament,” Gary B. Ferngren, in Bibliotheca Sacra, Vol. 134 #536 (October–December 1977). John F. Walvoord, Editor, Dallas, TX: Dallas Theological Seminary, p. 341.
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