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PETER TO PHILIP, LETTER OF

A brief tractate from the Nag Hammadi library, attributed to the Apostle Peter. By the end of the 1st century Peter was regarded as the preeminent authority for the apostolic tradition in an emerging orthodox Church. This pseudonymous writing represents Peter as the central recipient of a gnostic revelation that should be the content of the apostolic preaching. The actual letter, consisting of only a few lines (Ep.Pet.Phil. 132:10–133:7a), invites Philip and his group, who are said to be “separate from us” (133:2), to come together to receive instructions from the risen Christ.

The epistle consists chiefly of a gnostic revelation discourse given by Jesus in response to a series of questions from the apostles. A distinctive feature of the work is a sermon delivered by Peter in which he affirms the gnostic conviction that “Jesus is stranger to this suffering” (139:21). The epistle is a Coptic translation of an original Greek version from the late 2nd or early 3rd century c.e.

James J. H. Price

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PETER TO PHILIP, LETTER OF

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)