49 See p. 52, n. 59.
45Cf. J. Moffatt, Love in the New Testament (London, 1929); Grace in the New Testament (London, 1931); N. P. Williams, The Grace of God (London, 1930); C. Spicq, Agape in the New Testament, E.T., I-II (St. Louis, 1963-66).
46Lit., “for praise of glory” (εἰς ἔπαινον δόξης), the genitive being construed as the Hebraic qualifying genitive, as in Col. 1:11, 27a (p. 47, n. 37; p. 80, n. 197).
47RSV “give to him glorious praise” apparently takes kāḇôḏ in śîmû kāḇôḏ tehillāṯô (lit., “make glorious his praise”) as keḇôḏ, construct state.
48Gk. ϰαϱιτόω, from ϰάϱις. The one other NT occurrence of the verb is in Luke 1:28, where Mary is acclaimed as ϰεϰαϱιτωμένη (RSV “O favored one”).
49See p. 52, n. 59.
50Gk. ὁ υἱóς μου ὁ ἀγαπητός, where ὁ ἀγαπητός is probably an echo of Isa. 42:1 (ἀγαπητός being a variant rendering for ἐϰλεϰτός, for which see n. 30 above).
51J. A. Robinson, Ephesians, pp. 229-33; he suggests (with reason) that the designation ὁ ἠγαπημένος (LXX for Jeshurun in Deut. 32:15; 33:5, 26; Isa. 44:2) was transferred from Israel to the Messiah (compare the transference of “my firstborn son,” used of Israel in Exod. 4:22, to the Davidic king in Ps. 2:7; 89:27). For ὁ ἠγαπημένος used of Christ see also Ep. Barn. 3:6; 4:3, 8; ὁ ἀγαπητός is similarly used in Ase. Isa. 3:13 et passim.