First Epistle of Peter
Peter
cited 7 times by 4 works in the library · not held
The library does not hold this work. Four of its books reach for it anyway — that is what puts it on the corpus's wanted list.
cited by
7 citations · from 4 works-
Stromata Clement of Alexandria 4 citations
Explicitly attributed to Peter and quoted as scriptural authority.
"Beloved, I exhort you as sojourners and pilgrims to abstain from the fleshly desires, which war against the soul, keeping your conduct good among the nations;
book 3 ¶ -
Barlaam and Josaphat John of Damascus 1 citation · 2 passages
Content matches First Peter, used in Barlaam's baptismal blessing.
Laying aside, then, henceforth all wickedness, and hating all the works of the old man, which are corrupted according to the desires of deceit, like a newborn infant long for the reasonable and guileless milk of the virtues to drink, that in it you may grow and come to the knowledge of the commandments of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ—no …
chapter 19 ¶ -
De Oratione Tertullian 1 citation
Peter's teaching is explicitly invoked as concordant authority alongside Paul's on modesty of dress.
Concerning the modesty of dress and adornment there is an open prescription even of Peter, restraining with the same mouth — because with the same Spirit as Paul — both the gloriousness of garments, and the pride of gold, and the meretricious elaboration of the hair.
de oratione ¶ -
Scorpiace Tertullian 1 citation
Peter's epistle is directly quoted twice, on suffering for Christ's name and on honouring civil authority.
Peter, forsooth, had laid down that the king indeed must be honoured — yet so that the king be honoured then, when he keeps to his own affairs, when he is far from divine honours;
scorpiace ¶
The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of this text is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.
the marks
- authority
- relied on as a source of legitimacy
- neutral
- identified or reported
- refuted
- argued against
- extended
- developed or continued
- endorsed
- agreed with
- roman
- the cited text is in the library and opens in the reader
- italic
- named by this text, not held by the library — the corpus's wanted list
- ¶
- the passage in this text that does the citing
- 7
- beside a chapter, the passages anchored there. A single citation can quote more than one passage, which is why a row carries two figures: the citations the harvest recorded, and the passages its chapters add up to.
Every row here is derived from the harvest, not curated: the citation ledger holds the whole of it, and the atlas states the method.