27 J. A. Robinson, Ephesians, p. 211.
26Gk. ἐϰ ψυϰῆς, as in Col. 3:23. It might be pressing too much out of the phrase here to say that doing God’s will ἐϰ ψυϰῆς is the result of having his law written on the heart, in the sense of Jer. 31:33.
27J. A. Robinson, Ephesians, p. 211.
28εἰδóτες, as at the beginning of Col. 3:24 (see p. 169, n. 209).
29In εἴτε δοῦλος εἴτε ἐλεύθεϱος W. A. Meeks discerns “an allusion to the baptismal reunification of opposites,” as in Gal. 3:28; Col. 3:11 (see p. 149, n. 95); cf. 1 Cor. 7:13; 12:13 (“The Image of the Androgyne: Some Uses of a Symbol in Earliest Christianity,” History of Religions 13 [1973-74], 205).
30Cf. 2 Cor. 5:10, where good deeds and bad alike (εἴτε ἀγαθòν εἴτε φαῦλον) receive appropriate requital at the tribunal of Christ.
31Cf. Rom. 2:6, where God “will render to everyone according to his works” (ἀποδώσεɩ ἑϰάστῳ ϰατἀ τἀ ἔϱγα αὐτοῦ).
32τἀ αὐτἀ ποɩεῖτε πϱòς αὐτούς.