P. Derek Overfield PhD Thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

This is the weakest similarity to which Lock points.
Neither of the verses cited by him actually describe
the people of God as God's inheritance.
expounds the hope to which God has called his people,
wi th a probable play on the similarity between x~fp-~ (;
and X~llpOVO/-L'a. • The psalm, on the other hand, refers
to the benefits received from God.
The last important similarity to which
our attention is drawn is the emphasis on God's
graciousness in Eph 2:7 and again in Ps 67:11.
Eph 2:7
Again we note that the siIT~larity
between
these two texts rests much more upon the fact that
they both express the goodness of God with XPTiv-,;O'l:y}1:1.
than upon anything else.
In Ephesians the concern
is primarily with the kindness of God expressed by
means of his salvation;
in the psalm the concern is
primarily with the kindness of God in his provision
of homes for the poor.
Lock also calls our attention to two
supposed similarities between the epistle and the
psalm which are of much less consequence -
the exhor-
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