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

describes not only the powers and abilities that
Christ has, but also who Christ is: he is the one -
and the only one - who possesses 'ta- ?tATJpWf-lO. ~,
different.
In Eph 4:13 the situation is very
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Ernst
has correctly pointed out that
"die wendungen
xa.'ta.\I~£\I
(4:15) seien nur
verschiedene Umschreibungen far ein und denselben
(4:13)
Sachverhalt:
die Bildung einer rei fen Glaubensuberzeugung,
die sich durch keinen Trug der Menschen
Erfallung lasst H • This means that the emphasis in
4:13 is on the condition to which ths believer must
attain; it says nothing about any ability that the
Christian has by right.
Hence we must assume that,
at least in 4:13, ?t}.fj~ is concerned with the initial
necessity of belief and with the.believer's continuing
growth in faith and thus it ultimately has to
do with the relationship of the believer to the Church;
a situation decidedly different from that which is the
concern of Col 1:19 and 2:9.
The difficulties in this peri cope revolve
around three phrase s : tva. ?t'X:np