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

1God ,s Mission: The Epistle to the Enhesians in Missionary
Perspective, Amsterdam: 1962; p.85. Cf also F.F. Bruce,
"Colossians", in A Commentary on the Epistles to
Ephesians and Colossians, E.K. Simpson and F.F. Bruce,
Grand Rapids: 1957; p.203.
2Rom 12:20; 1 Cor l1:4(twice) , 5 (twice) , 7:10, 12:21.
31 Cor 11:3(3 times); Eph 5:23a; Col 2:10.
4 Eph 1: 22 ( atqJ.a.. and hXAMa. ) I 4: 15 ( otl¥aJ I 5: 23b (~XXAT}O"Ca. );
ColI :18 (crGlj..La. and hXAT}O"ta. ) I 2:19 (ati\.tc& ). If in this
last text ~ is equivalent to x601J.oc;; and not to
lXXA~a. , then 2~10 is an obvious parallel.
SIn one instance, Is 43:4, X£~A~ has been used to translate
~3J
.
and quite oobviously has the sense of 'life' •
.
6Cf Deut 28:13,44; Judges 11:11; 2 Kings 22:44; Is 7:8,
9:14. In the majority of cases where the MT
has the sense 'ruler' the LXX translates it with:pxwv ,
as in Jos 22:14; Judges 10:18, 11:8,9; 1 Chron 11:6; or
wi th &.pX~ , a:3 in Jer 22 :6; Hos 1 :11.
8 J.P. Sampley, And the Two Shall Become One Flesh,
Cambridge: 1971 i p.24l n.l notes "'to ot4La. is not used
explicitly in 5:23a-b because its neuter gender would
disrupt the parallelism of masculine-feminine, masculinefeminine".
9In the original hymn which forms the basis of Col 1:15-18
~ had a cosmic reference. The author adds ~C;;.
~XXAT}O"Ca.C;; and so changes the significance of ~f.La.. from
cosmology to ecclesiology; cf Schweizer, "Jl...ntilegomena",
pp.293ff and chpt.l n.50.
10For a different view cf W.L. Knox, "Parallels to the
New Testament Use of crtOj..la. ", JTS 39 (1938), pp.243-46.
He writes (p. 246): "The fact that 0"ti.\1a. is not commonly
found in Greek of a 'body' of people in precisely the
Pauline sense appears to be simply another way of saying
that we have only a few fragments of Posidonius in Greek
and we do not possess the doxographical manual of the
Hellenistic synagogues, in which the Jewish nation as
a body and the High Priest as its head may fairly be
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