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

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tion.<br />

But at this point Davies attempts to support<br />

his argument by reference to Phil 2:9.<br />

He argues<br />

that this is a definite reference to ascension and that it<br />

must follow that it is the same ascension that is<br />

implicit in Rom 8:34, and for that matter also present<br />

in all other similar texts.<br />

But it is not at all<br />

clear that ~~epu*6w<br />

in Phil 2:9 does in fact refer<br />

to an ascension, that is to say, to a definite movement<br />

from a lower level to a higher one.<br />

Indeed, following<br />

Ps 97:9,<br />

the reference is to exaltation, that<br />

is to say, to a position of greater erninence,l9 as in<br />

Acts 2:33. 20<br />

Against Davies we must then conclude<br />

that the heavenly session,at least as it is described<br />

in Rom 8:34, does not necessarily involve a belief in<br />

an ascension. Here, as with reference to I Thess 1:9,<br />

the situation is well summarised by Lohfink 21 when<br />

he writes:<br />

Die Auferweckung steht an unserer Stelle<br />

nur dann zu Recht, wenn sie als Voraussetzung<br />

und Grund der hirnrnlischen F~rsprache Christi<br />

genannt ist. Das bedeut aber, dass die bedenter<br />

Relativs~tze mit 0, nicht ein<br />

neus christologisches Geschehen anreihen -<br />

dann hinge das ~yepeeC, hier sachlich<br />

vallig in der Luft - sondern dass die<br />

Aussage von der Auferweckung zu dem Punkt<br />

hin entfallen, an dem Paulus interessiert<br />

ist. Wir m~ssen deshalb geradezu<br />

tibersetzen' ••• mehr noch, der auferweckt<br />

wurde und somit zur Rechten Gottes ist<br />

und f~r uns eintritt'.<br />

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