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

29J • C• Kirby, Ephesians: Baptism and Pentecost,
Montreal: 1972; p.146, notes the same affinity
between Eph 2:22 and Ps 67:17. He further notes a
possible similarity between 'tot'e:; l)~olS ~"'e:; &''Jt£l.eeCa.t;
(Eph 2:2) and the continuation of the verse of the
psalm which is actually cited in the epistle: yap
~'Jtel.eo~V~et; ~o~ xa~aaxn~l..
30The same idea is also expressed in 1 QS 8: lilt
shall be that tried wall, that precious corner stone,
whose foundations shall neither rock nor sway in their
place. It shall be a Most Holy.Dwelling for Aaron
(Translation taken from Vermes, Scrolls ,p.85).
3lThis is particularly so with respect to Eph 6:10
and the psalm texts. Eph 3:16 is set in the context
,~f the prayer that the inner life might be strengthened;
6:10 and the psalm texts are set in the context not of
prayer but of the response of man set in the midst of
his enemies, both physical and spiritual.
32The description of God's people as God's inheritance
is in fact much more explicit in 1:11 : ~v ~ xa.t
!x}.. npWeTlLe lI.
33But cf Deut 9:29 : xa.t
T
C')~o"
34Eph 5:19 is reproduced in (or from) Col 3:16£.
Cf C.L. Mitton, Ope cit.,p.253.
35This formula is surely traditional, being part of the
larger formul::l d}..o"'("TJ'tot; 0 eeOt; xa.t ?\(J.~fi? ~o~
~lI !-rICTOl) Xp(,~o~, ~ - as found in 1 Peter 1 :3;
2 Cor 1:3.
36we reject the similarity supposed by Lock to exist
between Eph 1:18 and Ps 67:10.
37If the Targum does present us with the source of the
version of the psalm as cited in the epistle then it is
at least possible that we should understand the ascension
in terms of the ascent of Christ the 'new' Moses, the
argument being that the use of the Targumic version of
the psalm implies that the Targumic application of
the psalm to Moses ought to be accepted and understood
as being in the mind of the author of the epistle.
If Ps 67:19 does provide the source of both Acts 2:33
and 5:31 then a second theory, based on the association
of the psalm-verse with the Pentecost tradition, can be
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