105 Westminster Shorter Catechism, answer to Q. 94.
105Westminster Shorter Catechism, answer to Q. 94.
106A. Borland, “Baptism in Ephesians,” The Believer’s Magazine 64 (1954), 174.
107See n. 99 above.
108See n. 92 above. The noun παϱανúμφɩος (or παϱάνυμφος) does not occur in the NT; it is synonymous with the phrase φίλος τοῦ νυμφίου used of John the Baptist’s relation to Christ in John 3:29.
109Mekhilta on Exod. 19:17; ExR 46.1 on Exod. 34:1. The Hebrew term is šôšeḇîn.
110Cf. Col. 1:22 (see pp. 78-79). The verb is παϱίστημɩ/παϱɩστάνω, on which see B. Reicke, TDNT 5, pp. 840-41.
111See J. Jeremias, TDNT 4, pp. 1104-05 (s. v. νúμφη).
112ἵνα παϱαστήση αὐτὸς ἑαυτῷ ἔνδοξον τὴν ἐϰϰλησίαν.