124 See Eph. 2:3 (pp. 283-84).
124See Eph. 2:3 (pp. 283-84).
125Cf. 1 Cor. 6:16, where εἰς μίαν σάϱϰα is quoted from Gen. 2:24 LXX (as in v. 31 below), but in the application of the text ἐν σѽμα is used instead of μία σάϱξ. See R. H. Gundry, ”Sōma” in Biblical Theology, pp. 64-65.
126See J. Horst, TDNT 4, pp. 561-67, especially p. 566 (s.v. μέλος). Paul tells the Corinthians similarly that their bodies are τὰ μέλη τοῡ Xϱɩστοῡ (1 Cor. 6:15). A purely verbal parallel is Seneca’s expression of a Stoic tenet: “omne . . . quo diuina et humana conclusa sunt, unum est: membra sumus corporis magni” (Epistulae Morales 15.95.52).
127H. Schlier, Der Brief an die Epheser, p. 261, n. 1, citing Irenaeus, Haer. 5.2.3 (and Tertullian, De anima 11). Cf. Luke 24:39, where the risen Christ says, “a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”
128Gk. ἂνθϱωπος, following the LXX, where ἀνήϱ (rendering Heb. ‘ îš) would have been more appropriate, now that the original ἂνθϱωπος (’ āḏām) had been differentiated into ἀνήϱ (‘ ῐš) and γυνή (’iššāh).