Section 155
207Paul sets a contrast in Gal. 1:10 between being a slave of Christ (Xϱɩστοῦ δοῦλος) and pleasing human beings (ἀνθϱώποɩς ἀϱέσϰεɩν). With the compound ἀνθϱωπάϱεσxος (here and in Eph. 6:6; also in LXX Ps. 52 [MT 53]:5; Ps. Sol. 4:7-8, 19) cf. ἀνθϱωπαϱεσϰῆσαɩ in Ignatius, Rom. 2:1.
208Gk. φοβούμενοɩ τὸν ϰύϱɩον (cf. Eph. 6:5, μετὰ φόβου ϰαὶ τϱόμου.
209“You should know” (Gk. εἰδότες, participle) in v. 24 (as in the following injunction to masters in 4:1) has been thought to indicate that Paul is invoking a pattern of teaching well known to Christians (cf. J. Munck, Paul and the Salvation of Mankind, E.T. [London, 1959], pp. 126-27). Cf. Eph. 6:8-9.
210This “reward of the inheritance” (ἀνταπόδοσɩς τῆς ϰληϱονομίας) is part of the total inheritance of glory laid up for all believers (cf. Gal. 3:18; 4:1-7; Eph. 1:14; 5:5, etc.); here it is brought into close association with the most practical issues of daily life.
211In 2 Cor. 5:10 as here the verb rendered “receive” is ϰομίζομαɩ (middle voice); here the wrongdoer will (literally) “receive the wrong he has done” (ϰομίσεταɩ ὅ ἠδίϰησεν), as in Eph. 6:8 “whatever good thing each has done, this he will receive (τοῦτο ϰομίσεταɩ).”
212Cf. W. A. Meeks, The First Urban Christians, p. 219, n. 80, where he refers to an unpublished Yale dissertation by J. M. Bassler, “The Impartiality of God: Paul’s Use of a Theological Axiom” (1979). See p. 219, n. 89 (on Philem. 18) for the suggestion that Onesimus is in view.