Section 284
53Presumably in a Greek form; the quotation in v. 8 seems to be a deliberate deviation from the LXX wording.
54Cf. F. F. Bruce, Biblical Exegesis in the Qumran Texts (London, 1960), pp. 7-19. In OT Heb. pēšer occurs in Eccl. 8:1; the Aramaic equivalent pešar occurs in Dan. 2:4ff.; 4:6ff. (MT 3ff.); 5:7ff.; 7:16.
55In τὰ ϰατώτεϱα τῆς γῆς the genitive τῆς γῆς is epexegetic after τὰ ϰατώτεϱα (genitive of definition). The phrase means much the same as τὰ ϰατώτατα τῆς γῆς in Ps. 138:15 LXX (MT 139:15). “A comparison is drawn, not between one part of the earth and another, but between the whole earth and heaven; as if he had said, ’From that lofty habitation He descended into our deep gulf ” (J. Calvin, Ephesians, p. 176).