69 See p. 261.
69See p. 261.
70διὰ τῆς πίστεως αὐτοῦ, the genitive αὐτοῦ being taken as objective. See, however, M. Barth (Ephesians, p. 347) for the rendering “because of his faithfulness”; the article τῆς before πίστεως, he states, “distinguishes 3:12 from the parallel passages Gal. 2:16; 3:22; Rom. 3:22; Phil. 3:9” (on pp. 224-25 he makes a similar suggestion about διὰ [τῆς] πίστεως in Eph. 2:8).
71Cf. W. C. van Unnik, “The Christian’s Freedom of Speech in the New Testament,” BJRL 44 (1961-62), 475, where appeal is made to the emphasis in the preceding verses on Paul’s commission to preach the gospel.