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

there would be thus no real reason to decide that
it was cited from a hymn rather than from the psalm
of which it was part.
2.5 The Concept of 'Gift' in Ephesians
occurs t we 1 ve tlmes . In . E p h' eSlans 79
and on no fewer than five of these occasions is the
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verb associated with
The verb in the
epistle is never directly ,associated with the giving
of the Holy Spirit.
In the other Pauline epistles
(including the Pastorals) the verb is associated with
at Row 12:3,6, 15:5; 1 Cor 1:4, 3:10;
2 Cor 8:1; Gal 2:9; 2 Tim 1:9. The verb is
associated with the gift of the ~b1y
Spirit at
Rom 5:5; 1 Cor 12:7; 2 Cor 1:22, 5:5; 1 Thess 4:8.
Omitting s:..1ch
. ,.,
epls"C.l..eS as 1 and 2 Thessalonians,
1 Timothy and Titus ,,'There the verb does not occur
with sufficient frequency for statistical judgements
to be made, we can conclude from these statistics
that 8CCL;;)J._ and x5.p~c; are linked together in Ephesians
with a far greater frequency than in any other
Pauline epistle.
This conclusion is not without
consequence and, as we, shall see below, is of sOwe
importance in our evaluation of the oo~a~a of 4;8.
The concept of 'gift' in Ephesians is
expressed by the substantives 00500\1 ,
,
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