Section 286
59H. Schlier (Der Brief an die Epheser, pp. 193-94) points out how this OT thought is reproduced repeatedly in Philo in stoicizing language; cf. Leg. Alleg. 3.4 (”God has filled and penetrated all things, and has left nothing void or empty of himself”); On Dreams 2.221; Life of Moses 2.238.
60Cf. Justin, Dialogue 39.2-4, where a summary of 1 Cor. 12:8-10, being challenged by Trypho, is defended by an appeal to Ps. 68:18: “it was prophesied that, after Christ’s ascension into heaven, he should take us captive from the (grip of) error and give us gifts.”
61According to Calvin, “the exposition of some, that Christ received from the Father what He would distribute to us, is forced, and utterly foreign to the argument” (Ephesians, p. 176).
62Gk. διαιϱέσεις . . . χαϱισμάτων (neither word is used in Ephesians).