06_Biblica_1_D_Callan_Layout 1 05/11/12 12:20 Pagina 448 448 TERRANCE CALLAN first words of the letter identify its author as Simwn Petroj (Simon Peter) rather than Sumewn Petroj (Simeon Peter) as in the most likely original text. This has the effect of making the au- thor more recognizable as the Simwn Petroj mentioned in other New Testament writings, since this is the form of his name every- where else but Acts 15,14. And in 2,13 Vaticanus has agapaij (love feasts) while the likely original text has apataij (deceits). Perhaps under the influence of the parallel passage in Jude 12, Vat- icanus locates the misbehavior of the false teachers specifically at formal celebrations of the Christian church; the likely original text is less specific about the meals at which the misbehavior occurs. Jude 12 is the earliest passage to use agaph (love) with this mean- ing, but this later became common usage. Another early instance is probably to be seen in Ignatius, Smyrn. 8.2 34. * * * The most important differences among the three earliest copies of 2 Peter concern the way they present Jesus. Readers of 2 Peter in Codex Vaticanus found Jesus presented the same way as in the prob- able original text, i. e., as God yet distinct from God. Readers of 2 Peter in P72 found less emphasis on the distinction between Jesus and God and thus more emphasis on the divinity of Jesus than in the probable original text of 2 Peter (and in the Codex Vaticanus copy). Readers of 2 Peter in Codex Sinaiticus found a less explicit presen- tation of Jesus as God and thus more emphasis on the distinction between Jesus and God than in the probable original text of 2 Peter (and in the Codex Vaticanus copy). In conjunction with this, readers of 2 Peter in Sinaiticus also found a greater emphasis on the tran- scendence of God than is found in the likely original text. Readers of 2 Peter in P72 also found it different in other ways than the probable original text. It presents the view that humans need salvation from desire rather than from corruption; it is some- what more consistently presented as a testamentary letter; it views prophecy as something alongside scripture rather than part of it; and it has a somewhat less complex eschatology than does the prob- 34 On this see BAUCKHAM, Jude, 2 Peter, 84-85.