135 Cf. Matt. 6:14-15; 18:23-35; Mark 11:25.
134The succession of present participles (ἀνεϰόμενοɩ ἀλλήλων ϰαὶ ϰαϱɩζόμενοɩ ἑαυτοῖς . . .) is characteristic of extended ethical injunctions in the NT. The use of the participle in an imperative sense was a Hellenistic development; cf. J. H. Moulton, MHT, I (Edinburgh, 1906), 180-83; D. Daube, “Appended Note: Participle and Imperative in I Peter,” in E. G. Selwyn, The First Epistle of St. Peter (London, 1946), pp. 467-88; H. G. Meecham, “The Use of the Participle for the Imperative in the New Testament,” ExT 58 (1946-47), 207-08. Cf. Rom. 12:9-19; 13:11; Eph. 4:2-3; 1 Pet. 2:18; 3:1, 7-9. In ἀλλήλων . . . ἑαυτοῖς an instance of stylistic variation is to be seen. The encroachment of the reflexive on the reciprocal pronoun is a Hellenistic feature (cf. v. 16), as is the encroachment of the third person of the reflexive pronoun on the first and second persons (cf. C. F. D. Moule, IBNTG, pp. 119-20).
135Cf. Matt. 6:14-15; 18:23-35; Mark 11:25.
136Cf. Matt. 6:12 par. Luke 11:4. The Greek verb used there and in the texts cited in n. 135 is ἀφίημɩ, whereas here (and in Eph. 4:32) it is Xαϱίζομαɩ, as in Col. 2:11 (see p. 108-09, nn. 87, 90). For the argument that Paul was acquainted with the Lord’s Prayer see E. F. Scott, ad loc. (pp. 72-73); A. M. Hunter, Paul and his Predecessors (London, 21961), pp. 50-51; W. D. Davies, Paul and Rabbinic Judaism (London, 1948), p. 139.