56 Terrance Callan word for “blots” in Jude 12 (35). Otherwise, this material has no counterpart in Jude. In 2 Pet 2,13 the author coupled “blots”, taken from Jude, with blemishes, and so prepared for his use of the phrase “without blot or blemish” in 3,14. Bauckham thinks that the phrase “indulging in their deceits (ajpavtai") while they feast with you” may contain a pun on Jude 12 — “blots on your love feasts (ajgavpai"), feasting with you” (36). Senior suggests that the author of 2 Peter changed love feasts to deceits either because love feasts were not a custom in the churches he addresses, or because they had not been abused by his opponents (37). Perkins suggests that 2 Peter is trying to obviate any suspicion that the feasting occurs at formal celebrations of the Christian church (38). 2 Pet 2,15 is an adaptation of Jude 11. Jude 11 compares the opponents to Cain, Balaam and Korah. 2 Peter omitted any reference to the first and third, though it adapted the image of the “way” from Jude’s reference to Cain (39). The description of the false teachers as accursed children at the end of 2 Pet 2,14 may also have been suggested by Jude’s reference to Cain, the accursed child of Adam and Eve (Gen 4,11). The author may have thought it more effective to make a single comparison at greater length, than three very brief comparisons. In addition comparison with Balaam may have been particularly appropriate following an accusation that the false teachers are greedy (40). Senior suggests that the author of 2 Peter focused on Balaam because “his credentials as prophet and wise man fit the false teachers” (41). Jude 11 says of the opponents that “they went the way of Cain and abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain”. 2 Pet 2,15 says of the false teachers, “Having left the straight way, they have erred, having followed the way of Balaam, son of Bosor, who loved the gain of wrongdoing”. Using the word “way” twice in different cases is polyptoton. Jude 11 says that the opponents have gone the way of Cain; 2 Pet 2,15 expressed a similar idea more generally and in negative terms, i.e., the false teachers have left the straight way. This (35) KELLY, Epistles, 341; FORNBERG, Early Church, 49-50; BAUCKHAM, Jude, 2 Peter, 265-66; NEYREY, 2 Peter, Jude, 209-210. (36) BAUCKHAM, Jude, 2 Peter, 260, 266; so also WATSON, Invention, 117. (37) SENIOR, 1 and 2 Peter, 124. (38) PERKINS, First and Second Peter, 185. (39) BAUCKHAM, Jude, 2 Peter, 267; NEYREY, 2 Peter, Jude, 210. (40) BAUCKHAM, Jude, 2 Peter, 260. (41) SENIOR, 1 and 2 Peter, 125; cf. FORNBERG, Early Church, 39-40.