- PETER, SECOND EPISTLE OF The question of the authenticity of this
epistle has been much discussed, but the weight of evidence is wholly in
favour of its claim to be the production of the apostle whose name it bears.
It appears to have been written shortly before the apostle’s death (1:14).
This epistle contains eleven references to the Old Testament. It also
contains (3:15, 16) a remarkable reference to Paul’s epistles. Some think
this reference is to 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11. A few years ago, among
other documents, a parchment fragment, called the “Gospel of Peter,” was
discovered in a Christian tomb at Akhmim in Upper Egypt. Origen (obiit
A.D. 254), Eusebius (obiit 340), and Jerome (obiit 420) refer to such a
work, and hence it has been concluded that it was probably written about
the middle of the second century. It professes to give a history of our
Lord’s resurrection and ascension. While differing in not a few particulars
from the canonical Gospels, the writer shows plainly that he was
acquinted both with the synoptics and with the Gospel of John. Though
apocryphal, it is of considerable value as showing that the main facts of
the history of our Lord were then widely known. - PETHAHIAH loosed of the Lord. (1.) The chief of one of the priestly
courses (the nineteenth) in the time of David (1 Chronicles 24:16). (2.) A
Levite (Ezra 10:23). (3.) Nehemiah 9:5. (4.) A descendant of Judah who
had some office at the court of Persia (Nehemiah 11:24). - PETHOR interpretation of dreams, identified with Pitru, on the west
bank of the Euphrates, a few miles south of the Hittite capital of
Carchemish (Numbers 22:5, “which is by the river of the land of the
children of [the God] Ammo”). (See BALAAM.) - PETHUEL vision of God, the father of Joel the prophet (Joel 1:1).
- PETRA rock, Isaiah 16:1, marg. (See SELA.)
- PEULTHAI wages of the Lord, one of the sons of Obed-edom, a Levite
porter (1 Chronicles 26:5). - PHALEC (Luke 3:35)=Peleg (q.v.), Genesis 11:16.
- PHALLU separated, the second son of Reuben (Genesis 46:9).
- PHALTI deliverance of the Lord, the son of Laish of Gallim (1 Samuel
25:44)= Phaltiel (2 Samuel 3:15). Michal, David’s wife, was given to him. - PHANUEL face of God, father of the prophetess Anna (q.v.), Luke 2:36.
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