137 Cf. Col. 3:8; Eph. 4:31.
137Cf. Col. 3:8; Eph. 4:31.
138Cf. Col. 3:6; Eph. 2:3; 5:6.
139LXX (4:5) ὀϱγίζεσθε ϰαὶ μὴ άμαϱτάνετε. The NEB renders the MT (
we’ al teḥe ṭā’ û.) “However angry your hearts, do not do wrong”; cf. G. Stählin, TDNT 5, p. 421 (s.v. ὀϱγή), who translates Eph. 4:26, “If you are angry, be careful not to sin,” and adds: “Anger is not called sin here, but there lies in the background the thought that when one is angry sin couches at the door.”
140A. D. Nock, “Early Gentile Christianity and its Hellenistic Background,” Essays on Religion and the Ancient World, ed. Z. Stewart, I (Oxford, 1972), 127, compares Plutarch’s description of the Pythagoreans who, “if ever moved by anger to abusive words, joined hands, embraced and were reconciled before the sun set” (On Brotherly Love 17, 448B). Cf. more generally Josephus’s statement that the Essenes were ὀϱγῆς ταμίαɩ δίϰαɩοɩ, θυμοῦ ϰαθεϰτɩϰοί, “righteous stewards of anger, holding their temper in restraint” (BJ 2.135).
141δóτε τóπον 
(for this sense of ὀϱγή cf. n. 137 above); one might contrast this injunction with μηδὲ δίδοτε τóπον τῷ δɩαβóλῳ in Eph. 4:27.