Section 321
94There is much uninformed opinion on the allegedly superior quality of ἀαγαπάω and ἀγάπη as such over other kinds of love (cf. p. 164, n. 180; p. 285, n. 44).
95The foundling is Jerusalem. Bridal language is similarly used of Yahweh and Israel in Jer. 2:2; Hos. 2:14-15. In Isa. 62:4-5 it is the land rather than the people that is married (beûl ā h) to Yahweh.
96For this use of the pi’el of q-d-š see M. Jastrow, Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud, etc. (London, 1926), pp. 1319-20; K. G. Kuhn, TDNT 1, pp. 97-98 (s.v. ἃγɩος); J. P. Sampley, “And the Two,” pp. 42-43.
97ϰαθαϱίσωμεν εαυτούς. On the critical problems of 2 Cor. 6:14-7:1 see F. F. Bruce, 1 & 2 Corinthians, NCB (London, 1971), pp. 213-16. See also p. 371, n. 22.
98ἳνα . . . ϰαθαϱίσῃ (in Eph. 5:26 the aorist participle ϰαθαϱίσας is used, epexegetic of ἲɩνα . . . ἁγɩάσῃ).