111 Cf. the Hallelujah psalms (Pss. 146-150, etc.).
107P. Benoit, “Body, Head and Pleroma in the Epistles of the Captivity,” E.T. in Jesus and the Gospel, II (London, 1974), 91.
108ὑπὲϱ Πάντα Ποιϰσαι ὐπεϱεϰπεϱισσοῦ (ὑπέϱ is omitted by P46 D F G lat— the ascription then being “to him who can do in exceeding abundance all we ask or think”).
109ἐν τῇ
ϰαὶ ἐν Xϱιστῷ ’Iησοῦ (ϰαί is omitted by D2 Ψ with the majority of cursives and several versions, the resultant sense being probably “in the church by Christ Jesus,” as the KJV has it).
110A good OT example is Ps. 29: cf. 1 Chron. 29:11; Prayer of Manasseh 15; 4 Macc. 18:24. In the NT see Rev. 1:6; 5:13; 7:12; 19:1.
111Cf. the Hallelujah psalms (Pss. 146-150, etc.).
112Cf. the benedictions which conclude the first four books of the Psalter (Pss. 41:13; 72:18-19; 89:52; 106:48) or the ‘Amidah (the Eighteen Benedictions) in the Jewish synagogue service; also the Benedicite (Dan. 3:52-90 Gk.) and the exordium of the Benedictus (Luke 1:68). Pauline instances, apart from Eph. 1:3, are Rom. 1:25; 9:5; 2 Cor. 1:3; 11:31.
