A dictionary of the . lleague, and with whichhe alluded afterward to the Epistles ofhis beloved brother Paul/ 2 Pet. 3:15,as much as the boldness and fearlessnesswith which Paul stood up for principleand the rights and liberty of the GentileChristians. Paul mentions him again,). 57, 1 Cor. 9 : 5, as engaged, incompany with his wife, in missionaryjourneys and labors, perhaps among thedispersed Jews in Asia Minor, to whomhe addressed his Epistles. 1 Pet. 1 : allusion to Peters wife is importantas proving that he did not give up thefamily ties when he entered upon hisspiritual c
A dictionary of the . lleague, and with whichhe alluded afterward to the Epistles ofhis beloved brother Paul/ 2 Pet. 3:15,as much as the boldness and fearlessnesswith which Paul stood up for principleand the rights and liberty of the GentileChristians. Paul mentions him again,). 57, 1 Cor. 9 : 5, as engaged, incompany with his wife, in missionaryjourneys and labors, perhaps among thedispersed Jews in Asia Minor, to whomhe addressed his Epistles. 1 Pet. 1 : allusion to Peters wife is importantas proving that he did not give up thefamily ties when he entered upon hisspiritual calling. Clement of Alexan-dria expressly states that Peter and Philiphad children, and that both took aboutwith them their wives, who aided themin ministering to women at their ownhomes. It is a singular fact that hewhom Roman Catholics hold to be the i first pope should have been and remain-ed a married man and thus protestedagainst clerical celibacy. According to the unanimous testimonyof Christian antiquity, Peter suffered. Portraits of Peter and Paul. (From a GildedGlass Cup found in the Catacombs of Rome.) martyrdom in Rome under Nero, but thelength of his residence in Rome and theyear of his martyrdom are Paul arrived at Rome, a. d. 61,and during his imprisonment, A. d. 61-63,no mention is made of Peter. It is I therefore improbable that he reachedRome before the close of 63. The report J of a twenty or twenty-five years resi-dence of Peter in Rome rests on a chron-ological miscalculation of Eusebius and*.Jerome, who assume that he went toRome A. d. 42, immediately after his de-liverance from prison (Acts 12 : 17, hewent into another place), and is en-tirely irreconcilable with the silence ofScripture, and we may say even with themere fact of Pauls Epistle to the Romans,written in 58; for Paul says not a wordof previous labors of Peter in that city,and never built on other mens foun-dation. Peters martyrdom may havetaken place either in A. D. 64, during the
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