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134 Cf. W. Munro, Authorityin Paul and Peter, p. 34.

134 Cf. W. Munro, Authorityin Paul and Peter, p. 34.

134Cf. W. Munro, Authorityin Paul and Peter, p. 34.

135See also G. Bornkamm, TDNT 4, p. 823 (s.v. μυστήϱɩον); R. E. Brown, “The Semitic Background of the New Testament Mysterion, II,” Biblica 40 (1959), 70-87, especially 83-84.

136See F. F. Bruce, Biblical Exegesis in the Qumran Texts (Grand Rapids/London, 1960), pp. 7-11. The word rāz is of Persian origin; in the OT it occurs only in the Aramaic section of Daniel (2:18-19, 27-30, 47; 4:9), where the Greek versions render it by μυστήϱɩον.

1371QpHab 7.1-2 (on Hab. 2:2). So, in 1 Pet. 1:10-11 the OT prophets were not told “what person or time” was indicated in the oracles which they uttered under inspiration; not until their fulfilment was it understood that the person was Jesus and the time was now (cf. Peter in Acts 2:16).

1381QpHab 7.4-5 (on Hab. 2:2, “so he may run who reads it”).

139CD 1.11-12.

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