There was a man named Silas. We read of him in Acts and in several of the Epistles. Yet in the whole of the New Testament there is not one word from Silas himself: not a word that he said, not a scrap of a letter in his own name. Was he silent? We know he was not. He was a prophet for Christ; he exhorted, taught, preached, prayed, and sang.

Of all that Silas said, what was it and what was it worth? The First Epistle of Peter was written by the hand of Silas. If we were to ask Peter, what might he say?

Silas? Yes, he wrote down that letter for me. He put it into better Greek than I can write, all polished. After all, I was a fisherman in Galilee; I learned my Greek in the fish market. Silas was a city man, educated, a traveler who spoke Greek wherever he went. He wrote my letter for mean …