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Testament lemma. For the method used see further the Introduction by Seelig
(p. IX–XXIII). The first part treats the contents of the New Testament from the
Letters of Paul to Revelation. Remarkably no author is cited more often than
Philo. The 284 passages from his works are listed on pp. 1806–1809. The texts
are cited mainly in the German translation of Cohn–Heinemann–Theiler, but for
important sections the Greek is added in brackets. A short note on the context
of the passage precedes the citation, but the collection gives no commentary
andalsonoindicationofthetertium comparationis which underlies the citation.
Presumably readers are meant to work this out for themselves. (DTR)
a96118. M.Vogel,DasHeildes Bundes. Bundestheologie im Frühjudentum
und im frühen Christentum, Texte und Arbeiten zum neutestamentlichen
Zeitalter 18 (Tübingen–Basel 1996), esp. 210–219.
Under the heading ‘God gives Himself ’ the book has a chapter on διαηκή
in Philo. It starts with the assertion that, although there is no theology of
the covenant referring to the salvation of the collective entity ‘Israel’, Philo
develops the OT concept of covenant in an original way, applying the aspect
of community, implicit in this concept, to the soul and to the world. In his
interpretation of διαήκη as ‘last will’ Philo is interested in the act of donation.
In correlation with άρις this means direct participation of the self-taught
character in God. When διαήκη is connected with the Logos as cosmological
principle of order, God communicates his own steadiness to the soul. (DZ)