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In a recent issue of/BL, Terrance Callan argues against a general consensus among commentators that ... in 2 Pet 1:19 modifies the previous verb ....1 He suggests instead that ... modifies what follows in 1:20, .... He insists that "[t]here is no obstacle to understanding .... as modifying the following participle." Since prepositional phrases in 2 Peter are often placed before the verb, Callan suggests, Other things being equal, it is almost as likely that a prepositional phrase will precede the verb it modifies as that the phrase will follow the verb." Callan's interpretation leads him to conclude that, instead of speaking of an internal ...