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2 Peter recalls the divine voice declaring to Jesus, ‘This is my beloved Son.’ The Apocalypse of Peter expands this into a full transfiguration scene, repeating the same words and adding a command to keep the commandments.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
2 Peter 1:17
New Testament
16 For we did not follow cleverly concocted fables when we made known to you the power and return of our Lord Jesus Christ; no, we were eyewitnesses of his grandeur. 17 For he received honor and glory from God the Father, when that voice was conveyed to him by the Majestic Glory: “This is my dear Son, in whom I am delighted.” 18 When this voice was conveyed from heaven, we ourselves heard it, for we were with him on the holy mountain.
Apocalypse of Peter 1:52
Revelation of Peter
Early Christian
51 As is their rest, so also is the honor and the glory of those who are persecuted for my righteousness' sake. And I rejoiced and believed, and understood that which is written in the book of my Lord Jesus Christ. And I said to him: My Lord, do you want me to make three tabernacles here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah? And he said to me in anger: Satan makes war against you, and has veiled your understanding; and the good things of this world prevail against you. Your eyes therefore must be opened and your ears unstopped, that you may see a tabernacle, not made by human hands, which my heavenly Father has made for me and for the elect. And we saw it and were full of gladness. 52 Suddenly there came a voice from heaven, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased — keep my commandments. And then a great and exceedingly white cloud came over our heads and bore away our Lord and Moses and Elijah. And I trembled and was afraid; and we looked up and the heaven opened, and we saw men in the flesh, and they came and greeted our Lord and Moses and Elijah, and went into another heaven. And the word of the scripture was fulfilled: This is the generation that seeks him, and seeks the face of the God of Jacob. And there was great fear and commotion in heaven, and the angels pressed one upon another, that the word of the scripture might be fulfilled which says: Open the gates, you princes. 53 After this, the heaven was shut that had been open.
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Notes and References
“... The most impressive group of correspondences, which is impressive only when considered as a group, consists of numbers 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25. Numbers 16-20 are all correspondences between two short passages (E14:1-4 = R; and 2 Peter 1:4-15), while numbers 21, 24, 25 are correspondences between the versions of the transfiguration tradition which immediately follow in each of the two works (E15-17 = A4-20; and 2 Peter 1:16-18). The fact that these correspondences occur in close proximity in both works suggests a literary relationship between the two works. Since the Apocalypse of Peter’s transfiguration narrative is almost certainly dependent on Matthew and in any case unquestionably dependent on Synoptic tradition, while 2 Peter’s account of the transfiguration is probably independent of the Synoptic tradition, and since the Apocalypse of Peter has put the transfiguration tradition to a secondary use, as a revelation of the glory of the redeemed rather than of Jesus Christ, it is clear that the dependence must be of the Apocalypse of Peter on 2 Peter, not vice versa ...”
Bauckham, Richard
The Fate of the Dead: Studies on the Jewish and Christian Apocalypses
(pp. 302-303) Brill, 1998
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