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8. widespread belief among ancient scholars that bishops and elders are two separate offices with bishops being superior to elders (priests) stands against the addition of the participle by later scribes. Elders (priests), many ancient churchmen believed, did not do the work of a bishop. (3) The word overseer is a participle, and this agrees with Peter’s frequent use of it. (4) Peter has already used the combination of shepherd and overseer in 2225. Num. 27216,]7; Jer. 2322; Ezek. 34211,12; Zech. 11216; Acts 20:28; 1 Pet. 2225; 522. . Lenski, The Interpretation of the Epistles of St. Peter, St. John and St. Jude, pp. 218,219. J.H. Jowett, The Redeemed Family ofGod, Studies in the Epistles ofPeter (New York: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), p. 186. 9. Cranfield, The First Epistle of Peter, p. 112. 10. Jowett, The Redeemed Family of God, p. 189. 11. Cranfield, The First Epistle of Peter, p. 113. 12. Lenski, The Interpretation of the Epistles of St. Peter, St. John and St. Jude, p. 219. 13. W. Foerster, “kléros,” in Theological Dictionary ofthe New Testament, 3 (1965): 763. 14. Peter H. Davids, The First Epistle of Peter, The New International Com mentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990), p. 181. 15. John Brown, Expository Discourses on 1 Peter, 2 vols. (1848; repr. Carlisle: The Banner of Truth, 1975), 22 453. 16. I. Howard Marshall, 1 Peter, The IVP New Testament Commentary Se ries (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1991), p. 164. 17. Robert Leighton, Commentary on First Peter (1853; repr. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1972), p. 473. 18. Polycarp, Philippians 5. 19. Davids, The First Epistle of Peter, p. 184. 1. For arguments for this early date, read Douglas J . Moo, James, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985), pp. 30 34. 2. James B. Adamson, The Epistle of James, The New International Com mentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1976), p. 210. 3. Thomas Manton, An Exposition of the Epistle ofJames (Grand Rapids: Associated Publishers and Authors, n.d.), p. 450. 4. SJ. Kistemaker, Exposition of the Epistle of James and the Epistles of John, New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1986), p. 177. 5. Manton, An Exposition of the Epistle ofJames, p. 452. Chapter 12

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