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

2140p• cit. p.539.
215It is doubtful whether there are any 'Pauline'
references to the descent to Hades. Apart from
Eph 4:9 the only possible occurences of this theme
are Phil 2:10 and Rom 14:9. The first of these
texts is pre-Pauline and in any case does not refer
to the realm of the dead but is part of the poetical
description of the entire universe over which Christ
is enthroned. Cf R.P. Martin, Carmen Christi I
_ pp. 257-67; F.W. Beare, ,A Commentary on the
Epistle to the Philippians, London: 1959; p.86.
Rom 14:9 also refers to the complete Lordship of
Christ; cf below pp. 378 f. F.F. Bruce, Ephesians,
p.83 and B. Metzger, Textual Commentary, p.605, both
claim that 'ltP~OV was an insertion which made
explicit that which was alrea9Y implicit.
2160n Ps 68:11 R. Jonathan said: "What is meant
by this verse, 'The Lord gives the word; they that
publish the glad tidings are a great host?' Every
single word that went :torth from the Omnj_potent
was split up into seventy tongues" (b Shab 88b) , as
cited by Caird, QP. cit., pp. 543f.
217 See above pp. 11-15.
218MT = He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf and
Sirion like a young wild ox. LXX = He pulve~ises
Lebanon like a calf and the belovec shall be as the
Son of a unicorn. (Kirby's translation, OPe cit.
p.147) •
-219 0 . 147
p. Clt. p. .
220 Ibid •
221English translation from W. Foerster, Gnosis: A
Selection of Gnostic Texts, I, Oxford: 1972; pp. 333f;
Greek extracts from the text of Nock and Festugiere,
OPe cit. pp. 15f.
222This account is correlative with the account of
the Fall of Man in Poimandres 12-19. The same
account of the Fall of the Heavenly Man, which is at
the same time an account of the origin of the earthly
Man, is based on the account of the Fall in Gen 1:26-30,
2:7 - 5:2. The account of the ascent of Man in
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