36 Cf. v. 6 above (p. 42 with n. 15).
33Gk. πεϱɩπατῆσαɩ ἀξίως τοῦ ϰυϱίου. The ethical use of πεϱɩπαέω is a Hebraism (cf. Heb. hālaḵ) common in the Pauline and Johannine letters, equivalent to the more idiomatic Hellenistic ἀναστϱέφομαɩ (cf. Eph. 2:3). But ethical πεϱɩπατέω itself is used by some Hellenistic writers (e.g., Menander, Philodemus, Epictetus) where there is no question of Semitic influence.
34A. Deissmann, Bible Studies, E.T. (Edinburgh, 21909), p. 248.
35Cf. Rom. 12:1. In the phrase εἰς πᾶσαν ἀϱεσϰείαν (“for all pleasing”) ἀϱεσϰεία has a higher sense than “obsequiousness,” which it frequently means. Parallels to this higher sense are found in Philo. Deissmann (Bible Studies, p. 224) quotes an example from a Bosporan inscription of uncertain date; MM (p. 75) give one from P. Oxy. 729 (2nd cent. A.D.). We might render: “so as to satisfy him in all respects.”
36Cf. v. 6 above (p. 42 with n. 15).
37For this adjectival force of the genitive τῆς δóξης (a Hebraism) cf. v. 27; Rom. 8:21; 2 Cor. 4:4, 6; Eph. 1:18; 3:16.