47 Calvin, Ephesians, p. 174.
45See E. E. Ellis, Paul’s Use of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, 2 1981), p. 23: “’The Scripture says,’ ’God says,’ and ’Isaiah says’ are for Paul only different ways of expressing the same thing” (for λέγει without a subject when an OT quotation is being introduced cf. Rom. 9:25; 10:21; 15:10; Gal. 3:16). See also B. B. Warfield, The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible (Philadelphia, 1948), pp. 299-348.
46Thus εỉς ὓψος represents lammārbm (RSV “the high mount”), ᾐχμαλώτευσας αỉχμαλωσίαν represents šāḇîṯā šeḇî (where the abstract noun “captivity” does duty as a collective in the sense of “captives,” like ἀϰϱοβυστία and πεϱιτομή in the sense of ἀπεϱίτμητοι and πεϱιτετμημένοι in Eph. 2:11), and ἐν ἀνθϱώπω represents bā’āḏām (where Heb. ’ēḏām has a collective force alien to the Gk. singular ἂνθϱωπος).
47Calvin, Ephesians, p. 174.
48If Heb. be can be taken here to have the sense of Ugaritic be,”from.” M. Dahood goes farther and reads here beāḏē;m,”from their hands” (Psalms II, AB [Garden City, NY, 1968], 143; cf. Psalms I, AB [Garden City, NY, 1966], 95); he was anticipated by T. H. Gaster, Thespis (New York, 1950), p. 458. But note J. Barr’s caveat in Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament (Oxford, 1968), pp. 175-77.