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A Pagan Reader of 2 Peter: Cosmic Conflagration in 2 Peter 3 and the Octavius of Minucius Felix

In a recent paper on 2 Peter, R. Riesner analyses the importance of its eschatology, argues for a date of the letter that may possibly fall within Peter’s lifetime and includes a paragraph on early Christian attitudes towards the stoic concept of ÈK1Túpcocnç. He refers to the usual source, Plato’s Timaeus 22c, where, however, the term as such does not occur, and notes that such ’pagan parallels’ and the popularity of the topos among Gnostic groups like the Valentinians caused Irenaeus (Adversus haereses 1.7.1) and Origen (Contra Celsum 4.11.79) to refute the idea, as Philo had already done before them 2 2