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BIBLIOGRAPHY Aalen, S. Abbott, T.K. Adam, A. Albright, W.F. Allan, J .A. Anderson, G.W. Barrett, C.K. "Begrepet Plaeroma i Kolosser-og Efeserbrevet II TTK 23 (l952) , pp. 49-67. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary to the Ephesians and to the Colossians, Edinburgh: 1897. "Die ursprungliche Sprache der Salorno-Oden ll ZNW 53 (196l), pp. 141-56. "A Catalogue of Early Hebrew Lyric Poems (Psalm LXVIII) II HUCA 23 (1950-51), pp. 1-39. "The lin Christl Formula in Ephesiansll NTS 5 (1958-59), pp. 54-62. "Psalms" in Peake's Corrrrnentary on the Bible, ed. M. Black and H.H. Rowley, London: 1962. A Commentarv on the Epistle to the Romans, London: 1957. "Stephen and the Son of Man" in Apophoreta (Festschrift for E. Haenchen), BZNW 30 (1964), pp. 32-38. A Commentarv on the First Epistle to the Corinthians, London: 1968. Barth, G. Barth, K. Beare, F.W. Bedale, S.F.B. "Matthew's Understanding of the Law" in Tradition and Interpretation in Matthew, ed. G. Barth, H.J. Held and G. Bornkamm, London: 1963. Credo, London: 1936. A Corrrrnentary on the Epistle to the Philippians, London: 1959. "Ephesians ll in The Interpreter's Bible, 10, New York: 1953. "The Theology of the Church" in Studies in Ephesians, ed. D. Nineham, London: 1956.
Benoit, P. Berthelot, A. liThe Ascension ll in Jesus and the Gospel, I, London: 1973. ,. - IICor};.s, Tete et Plerome dans llepitres de la captivite ll RB 63 (1956), pp. 5-44. Les Alchemistes grecs, Paris: 1875. Bertram, G. II ~t600 II, TDNT 8, pp. 608ff. Best, E. One Body in Christ, London: 1955. 1 Peter, London: 1971. A Commentary on the First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians, London: 1972. Black, M. An Aramaic Approach to the Gospel and Acts, Oxford: 1967. liThe Christological Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament, NTS 18 (1971-72), pp. 1-14. Romans, London: 1973. Bogdasavich, M. Bonner, C. (ed.) Bonsirven, J. Bornkamm, G. liThe Idea of Pleroma in the Epistles to the Colossians and Ephesiansll, Do~side Review 83 (1959), pp. 118-30. liThe Homily on the Passion by Melito, Bishop of Sardisll, Texts and Documents 12 (ed. K. & S. Lake), London: 1940. , , , ... L'Exegese rabbinigue et l'Exegese paulinienne, Paris: 1939. IIZum Verst~ndnis des Christus-Hymnus, Phil 2:6-11 11 , in Studien zu Antike und Urchristentum Gesammelte AU£s~tze, II, Munich: 1959. Paul, London: 1971.
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THE ASCENSION, PLEROMA AND ECCLESIA
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An ABSTRACT of a thesis entitled Th
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CONTENTS Curriculum Vitae Dedicatio
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DEDICATION This thesis is dedicated
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LXX NRT NT NTS RB RSO RGG RHPR SBL
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that many have drawn attention to t
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is concerned with the relationship
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tepx.of.1fyo", of 2:7 is intended t
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of a realised eschatology.18 In tha
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3. THE TRADITIONSGESCHICHTE 3.1 Lit
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only other transitive use of the sa
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Acts 2:33 also provides us with ano
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citation in it and in Eph 1:22. 34
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'realised' is tenable, that the dev
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the Pauline concept of a victorious
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Col 1:15ff is, as far as Colossians
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in which case the ~~~p serves to co
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Thus far we have attempted to show
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to the understanding which comes fr
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the author in presenting the ascens
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3.4.2. Acts 1:9-11 Lohfink 72 has d
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frequently in Acts. 75 It is only i
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NT and Jewish sources such that we
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concluding with F. Hahn 94 that Ps
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us to conclude that here the psalm
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In Jewish sources the messianic int
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Gen R. 85:9 (on Gen 38:18) 'And he
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motif was not universally part of t
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Before leaving the citation in Hebr
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istic eschatological context. 122 I
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In all these citations two things a
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made in an earlier tradition. Furth
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in the opinion of the author, Ps 10
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conclude that the particular value
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There is a radical difference betwe
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a promise. The motif analysis of Ac
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preted in the light of Davidic Mess
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in their agreement they differ from
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147 powers, though both forms occur
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description of an event having mere
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a verse very similar in part to Act
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in 'Mk' 16:9-20; Lk 24:50-53 and Ac
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parousia, in which Christ will part
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implies that the ascension is to be
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The language employed by the author
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y the use of Dan 7:13. P · 1 d 173
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It is possible of course to explain
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5:5, contains both Jew and Gentile
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The author then sees the fulfillmen
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8The Christology of Early Jewish Ch
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24J •A• Allen liThe 'in Christ'
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40. cY'ltepa.\I(I) occurs only here
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54Cf for example, J. He'ring i' Kyr
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7lCf P. Schubert liThe Structure an
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87This is frequently the case with
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990 • Linton "The Trial of Jesus
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118 Th " h "" f t " ~s p rase ~s ~n
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140Cf Rom 6:10; 1 Cor 15:20ff, 2 Co
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l6lR • T• Lincoln Ope cit. p.48
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l81See above n.96. 182 See n.16l ab
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author returns to the original them
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T~is then being the case, it is con
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Ps 68: 18 known to the author of th
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2.2 Ps 67 in the New Testament : Tw
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other \-lay) , it is never connecte
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The first point of contact between
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This is the weakest similarity to w
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other piece in the Psalter offers t
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which speaks of I gifts' (-11J""\!J
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Moses. Since, as we have already se
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elevant to our concern. According t
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There are two possible subjects for
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We have already offered some commen
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83 061-la. D!J;pov is otherwise alm
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, the author is stating his claim t
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and if the latter is the case we ca
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the author's text and citation bein
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that cosmic or supernatural powers
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'disarming' • If Christ is the su
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3. PS 67:19 AND ITS INTERPRETATIVE
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"Behold the nations and see, marvel
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the first of these phrases restrict
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3.2.1. In both LXX and in secular l
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technicus for the ascension, partic
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0 " . wor d xa/~a.pa.1. V€lV lS a
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figure; 10:7-31 and 11:24_26. 149 B
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Hermetic literature. lS8 This last
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which itself could well be contempo
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Despite the criticisms pointed to a
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Ch . t' h 181 rlS lan p enomenon. F
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the self-abasement of the Incarnati
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as for example that pu-t forward by
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their understanding of the ascent o
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MSS and inserted into X and C by co
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to support such a judgment. Mfp~ ha
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Pentecost were 29, 68 and the lesso
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etween Ephesians cannot be substant
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circle he gives the capacity to gro
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the ascenaea.e ~ ~ R d eemer t:o ''
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in Eph 4:8~10, that of an interpret
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The second piece o~ evidence is con
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e eXer 2i sing autr-lori ty in -che
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llLindars, OPt cit. p.52, commentin
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23Lindars does not elaborate on how
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adduced, namely that in Eph 4:8 the
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50 llThe Descent of Christ in Ephes
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67 A s, y4p' for example, in 1 Cor
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87 Rev 11:10. It also has this mean
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'to lead someone captive in a trium
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etween the PT and Rom 10:6-8. He co
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The significance of this is intensi
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l49A sindlar descent is described i
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163But cf J .M. Creed, "The Heavenl
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180Ibid p.19. Schrnithals cites Gal
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20lCffor example the commentaries c
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2140p• cit. p.539. 215It is doubt
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CI--:lA?TER 3 -,,------ ItITRODDCTI
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- th t t ~ - 1 . 4 5 . . - such as
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~\~pn,; Mt 14:20; as in the paralle
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number', and is thus equivalent to
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the OT - and this is in line with t
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is rarely if ever used reflexively
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. t t t' 29 1n erpre a 10n. We acce
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more apparent than it was real. 33
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is notoriously difficult to ascerta
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or at least were familiar with the
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corporate solution offers us some d
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sufficient to say at this point tha
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(v.22) and thus is intended to expo
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63 where, at least so Ernst argues
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means that we have to provide an ex
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y the believer (2:6f). In this exal
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potentia) by one who has fulfilled
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of is either the 'fulness of divine
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Imana which lives in us l (r.G. 287
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author writes. This view would seem
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2.4.3. Eph 4:10-13 We have argued i
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that confronts us in the first phra
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words in the citation are and it is
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used by the Gnostics and each denot
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of the Pleroma that we can build up
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the fully explicated manifestation
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We have already rejected the argume
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the fulfillment of diakonia and by
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1Cf..'l1P~O:to~ 'toU Xp~O"'to{1 as
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3.1 Jewish Sources 3.1.1 The Wisdom
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author goes on to suggest that sinc
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and content of the Philonic citatio
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nificant because, as we have alread
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argument is the Targum to 1 Kings 8
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, 134 same connection, namely 6:10,
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138 possibilities find scholarly su
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••• In the world death has ce
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nicht erkl~rt. Vor allem wird er Ko
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is highly unlikely that Christ can
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Adv Haer I, 12.3 There is great con
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evidence is stronger in that both t
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There is also a totally different l
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Certainly such ideas as expressed i
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5. UAHP2MA . ITS THEOLOGICAL SIGNIF
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ment is ecclesiological and is not
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l3Cf E. Lohmeyer, Markusevangelium,
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32Colossians, pp.92-4. 33It must be
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51A•R • McGlashan, "EpheElians
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69 Cf 2 Cor 8:2. On this cf Percy,
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99Refutatio VI, 29.7; Eug 86f. 100A
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128J • Dupont, Gnosis, Louvain: 1
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154English translations from Foerst
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Our procedure will be as follows. F
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subordination texts at issue are 1
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Exactly the same question can now b
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in the metaphor which Paul is expou
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as a title~ indeed we can say more:
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he is head by virtue of some other
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. than has the genitive constructio
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.29 , all things are now in subject
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is the xElpa;x'f} of v .15: it is a
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or at least its verbal form, is use
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5. THE NATURE OF THE BODY Although
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intended to express both messianic
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assumed to have appeared ll , Best,
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30Cf above pp. 218f. 31Cf below pp.
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where these components were otherwi
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discussion7 he writes: 7 "From a st
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instructed them in the hope centred
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the same way as in 5:2 the author h
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where a.~'tof1 should be taken as r
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Adamic speculation does lie behind
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time when the Jewish Christians, of
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But what, we must ask, precisely is
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(wi th reference to 1: 3) : IIOffen
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provides him with the justification
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of Ephesians what is significant is
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the Church and world may be co-term
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There are also within the epistle i
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The h Xp,~ formula occurs some 35 t
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all these is the idea of the believ
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Church; but again here the author i
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140p.Cit., p.135; cf Rom 8:11; 1 Co
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specifically those who are newly ba
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. ·IT)O'01Y ,coming as it does aft
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In some respects the manner in whic
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to say, that in every instance the
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the Damascus road. If Luke is corre
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theology and thought it to be signi
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tion. But at this point Davies atte
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in Acts i.1-9". Although it is prob
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efers to the post-resurrection exis
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2.10 Jn 20:17 Much of the difficult
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described in the Old Testament, tha
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Page 439 and 440: In Dial 87 Justin cites the same ps
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Page 461 and 462: 67So Charles, ibid. 68 Apol 1:21,31
Page 463 and 464: 89Danielou, OPe cit., p.249, prefer
Page 465 and 466: In 1:20ff the ascension is expresse
Page 467 and 468: Ps 67:19 that the author uses thoug
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Page 471: Ascension of Isaiah) and to the lat
Page 475 and 476: II TDNT 1, pp. 689-719. Theology of
Page 477 and 478: Davies, W.D. "Knowledge in the Dead
Page 479 and 480: Fitzmyer, J.A. "Further Light on Me
Page 481 and 482: Hayes, J.H. Helrnbold, A.K. Henneck
Page 483 and 484: Kfunrnel, W. G. Larranaga, V. Laute
Page 485 and 486: liThe Ascension and Exaltation of C
Page 487 and 488: Per1er, D. Perrin, N. Pesch, R. Peu
Page 489 and 490: Principalities and Powers in the Ne
Page 491 and 492: Synge, F.C. Talbert, C. "Mark II:21
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