61 2 Cor. 5:18-19.
60So H. Schlier, Der Brief an die Epheser, pp. 154-55. He compares the gnostic teaching ascribed to Simon Magus (apud Iren. Haer. 2.8.2, etc.), Menander (apud Iren. Haer. 1.17), and Satornilos (apud Iren. Haer. 1.18); but one would like firm evidence that such teaching was known in the circles in which Ephesians was composed and read.
612 Cor. 5:18-19.
62Eph. 1:4-5.
63J. Munck, Paul and the Salvation of Mankind, E.T. (London, 1959), p. 49.
64Gk. πολυποίϰιλος, first attested in a lyric passage in Euripides, Iphigeneia in Tauris 1149 (where it is applied to φάϱεα, “many-colored cloaks”).