23 Pseudo-Callisthenes, Alexander 30.6; Epiphanius, Pan. 51.22.
23Pseudo-Callisthenes, Alexander 30.6; Epiphanius, Pan. 51.22.
24W. Dittenberger, SIG3 1125.8 (74/73 B.C.). On the Iranian source of this concept cf. W. Bousset, Hauptprobleme der Gnosis (Göttingen, 1907), pp. 139-44; S. G. F. Brandon, “Time as God and Devil,” BJRL 47 (1964–65), 12–31; History, Time and Deity (Manchester, 1965), pp. 31–64; A. D. Nock, Essays on Religion and the Ancient World (Oxford, 1972), I, 377–96.
25M. Barth, Ephesians, p. 214. H. Sasse, TDNT 1, p. 207 (s.v.αἰών), after saying that “the idea of a personal Aἰών ... is alien to the NT,” concedes that “it may perhaps be found only in Eph. 2:2.”
26Philo, On Dreams 1.134–35, 141; cf. On the Giants 6, where the “angels of God” (Gen. 6:2 LXX) are said to be “souls that fly in the air” (ϰατὰ τòυ ἀϱέα). Cf. W. Foerster, TDNT 1, p. 165 (s.v. ὰήϱ).
27See p. 406.