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

87 Rev 11:10. It also has this meaning in Mt 2:11
though it is likely that the author meant much more than
merely gift, inasmuch as the gifts of gold, frankincense
and myrrh were offered in the context of the wise men
worshipping Jesus.
88Lk 21:1,4.
89Mt 5:23f, 8:4, 15:5, 23:8f; Mk 7:11 (=Mt 15:5); Heb 5:1,
8:4, 9:9, 11:10.
90 Abbott,Op.Cl 't., p. 51 •
91 Cf Cher 8:4; Leg A11eg 111,196.
92 Acts 2:38, 8:20, 10:45, 11:17.
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- Rom 5:15,17; 2 Cor 9:15; Eph 3:7, 4:7.
94J .D.G.Dunn, "A Note on OoopecS. ", ET 81 (1969-70), pp.349-51,
argues -that n Swpea. ,;:)~ eeo~ was well-known in -che early
Church as a s'tandard expression for the gift of the Holy
Spi.ri t which constituted a man a Christian. He shows
thdt this is how the word is used in both Acts and John
but he can then only conclude that Paul and the aUi:hor of
Hebrews demonstrate their ufamiliarity with this technical
sense II (p.351). Wnile agreeing in respect of Acts and Hebrews
we shall show that the evidence in the Pauline epistles
is not as strong as Dunn assumes and, furthermore, that
in Ephesians a completely different, significance is attached
to the word.
95F • Btichsel, II QC~J.L X .. 'teX."' TDNT 2, p.166.
96In Gal 2:9, which is indesputably Pauline, the author
defines or describes his apostleship as -rlj11 x,ap'" 'ti')v
&o6e:t'cra.v The use of both oCOooj.L&. and &>pea. in Eph 3: 7
may indicate a different author. It could of course be
nothing more that an emphatic statement made by the same
author.
97 Cf Rom 1:11, 5:15f, 6:23, 11:29, 12:6; 1 Cor 1:7, 7:7,
12:4,9,28,31; 2 Cor 1:11; i Tim 4:14; 2 Tim 1:6.
98 Mt 7:11 and par. Lk 11:13; Phil 4:17.
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