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

l3Cf E. Lohmeyer, Markusevangelium, Gattingen: 1967;
pp.6lf. The same conclusion is reached by S.E.
Johnson, A Commentary on the Gospel according to Mark,
London: 1960; p.65, who comments that n)~f~t~ in this
instance is "probably an Aramaism.". M. Black, An
Aramaic Approach to the Gospels and Acts, Oxford: 1967;
p,133, admits the possibility of there being an Aramaism
behind 't~ 7t~1)~ of 2: 21, but is less definite than
Johnson.
l4A different view is put forward by Bultmann, John, pp.
65f, who argues that the term should be interpreted in
light of the pantheistic cosmology and belief in divine
aeons of the Gnostic systems. But in view of the
frequent OT references to 'fulness' (though usually
expressed in the LXX by 1t~npll' and not 1tt..np~ )
in such statements as 'the fulness of grace, mercy: etc.,
this view seems unlikely.
lSCf also Pss 49:12, 88:11, 95:11 and Jer 8:16 where
similar phrases occur,
l6The term oc~urs 13 times in the LXX: 1 Chron 16:32;
Pss 23:1, 49:12; 88:11, 95:11, 97:7; Ecc 4:6; Cant 5:12;
Jer 8:16, 29:2; Ez 12:19, 19:7, 30:12 and translates Xi~~
and f~~
17Cf E rns t , OO.Clt., . p. 68 •
l8So Delling, II 7t~!l?Wj..1Cl..
", p.304; C.K. Barrett, A Commentary
on the Epistle to the Romans, London: 1957; p.215.
19 - For a discussion (and rejection) of this translation
see Barrett, ibid.
20Cf Gal 5:14; Rom 13:8; in both instances the same idea,
the fulfilling of the Law, is expressed by means of 1t~llpoiJv,
thus suggesting that Paul does not differentiate between
the two concepts.
21Cf also the following foot-note.
22This parallelism is noted by Delling, " 1t~fJpwlJO.ll, p. 303,;
and by C.F.D. Moule, "'Fullness' and IFill' in the New
Testament", SJT 4 (1951), pp.78-86, especially p.82.
In both Eph 1:10 and Rom 13:9f&'vo,x€rp