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Chapter I.
Simon Peter2337
the son of
John, from the village of Bethsaida in the province of Galilee, brother
of Andrew the apostle, and himself chief of the apostles, after having
been bishop of the church of Antioch and having preached to the
Dispersion2338
| 2338 Dispersion. The technical
“Dispersion”—the Jews out of Judea. Cf. Peter 1. 1.
See Westcott in Smith’s Dict. of Bible. | —the believers in
circumcision,2339
| 2339 Circumcision a paraphrase for
“Hebrews” in Eusebius and Rufinus. | in Pontus,
Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia—pushed on to Rome in the
second year of Claudius to overthrow Simon Magus,2340
| 2340 Simon Magus. That Peter met Simon
Magus in Rome is a post-apostolic legend. Compare the Clementine
literature. | and held the sacerdotal chair there for
twenty-five years until the last, that is the fourteenth, year of Nero.
At his hands he received the crown of martyrdom being nailed to the
cross with his head towards the ground and his feet raised on high,
asserting that he was unworthy to be crucified in the same manner as
his Lord. He wrote two epistles which are called Catholic, the second
of which, on account of its difference from the first in style, is
considered by many not to be by him. Then too the Gospel according to
Mark, who was his disciple and interpreter, is ascribed to him. On the
other hand, the books, of which one is entitled his Acts, another his
Gospel, a third his Preaching, a fourth his Revelation, a fifth his
“Judgment” are rejected as apocryphal.2341
| 2341 Apocryphal. For literature on
apocryphal works see Ante-Nic. Fath. ed. Coxe (N. Y. Chr. Lit.
Co.,) vol. 9 pp. 95 sq. The Acts, Gospel, Preaching and
Revelation are mentioned by Eusebius. The Judgment was
added by Jerome. This last has been much discussed of late in
connection with the recently discovered Teaching of the Twelve.
The identification of the Teaching with the Judgment is credited to Dr.
von Gebhardt (Salmon in Smith and Wace Dict. v. 4 (1887) pp.
810–11). The recent literature of it is immense. Compare Schaff,
Oldest Church Manual, and literature in Ante-Nic. Fath.
vol. 9 pp. 83–86. |
Buried at Rome in the Vatican
near the triumphal way he is venerated by the whole world.2342
| 2342 The textual variations on the chapter are numerous enough but none
of them are sustained by the better mss. e.g.
“First Simon Peter” “Simon Peter the
Apostle” “Peter the
Apostle”…“Called
canonical”…“are considered
apocryphal”…“the whole
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