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

and content of the Philonic citation seems to
depend upon two sources:
the language of the
Wisdom literature 124 and the philosophy of the
St
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OlCS.
Now it has generally been argued that
the author of Ephesians borrowed the 1tA:npWf.LO. term
from one or other of several sources.
But need this
be so?
Philo arrived at the same theological conception
or motif of ascension-subjugation-filling
by means of reliance on the two sources mentioned but
for the actual terminology of I filling I
uses not
, exactly as does the author of
Ephesians in 4:10.
Can it be then that the content
in Ephesians is gove~ned not by a.
theological or philosophical concept that had bee~
related to the word, bu~
rather by the verbal form
with its associated traditions?
Our suggestion, which at this stage is
no more than a hypothesis, does, however, find support
from a number of different directions.
Firstly, the
actual use made of 1tAnpOO!J.a. by Philo himself. The
term occurs in Philo somewhat infrequently, but significantly
enough on the few occasions when it does
occur it does not differ from the use made of the same
term in secular literature.
Philo uses the word to
express the contents - material or spiritual - with
which an object can be filledi 126 he also uses the
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