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

the code at this point to emphasise that which has
already been said in v.2.
If this is so then we
might well conjecture that the thought contained in v.2
was of some importance for the author and, then, it
would be natural for him to associate the idea expressed
in this verse with the Xp&.O't6, title which for him
is obviously very significant.
But even so, we must
admit that in v.2 the Messianic inference is not at
all strong, being very much dependent on the fact that
the author of the epistle knew the well attested Son
of God tradition but chose to use instead the same
tradi tion in association with the Xp&'O't6, title. 17
(d) 5:14
contain some reference to an incipiant Messianism in
as much as one of the Messianic fupctions was to give
light. 18
This verse is not as significant as the
others cited because the author was in all probability
quoting from an old Christian hymn of which he was not
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the author, and hence its original intention may not
necessarily have been retained - or even known - by him.
(e) 5:21
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