42 Cf. T. Erskine, Letters (Edinburgh, 1877), p. 16.
42Cf. T. Erskine, Letters (Edinburgh, 1877), p. 16.
43Cf. Col. 3:15.
44Gk. τῷ ἱϰανώσαντɩ ὑμᾶς εἰς τὴν μεϱίδα . . . τѽν ἁγίων. C. H. Dodd compares Job 31:2 LXX, ἐμέϱɩσεν ὁ θεòς ἀπάνωθεv ϰαɩ ϰληϱονομία ἱϰανοῦ ἐξὑψίστων (“God has made distribution from above, and the inheritance of the All-Sufficient is from the highest ones”). There, as in some other LXX passages, ἱϰανóς is a divine name, representing Heb. Shaddai (usually rendered “Almighty” in EVV). Dodd further suggests that Paul’s use of the verb ἱϰανóω (“qualify”) here and in 2 Cor. 3:5-6 reflects this Septuagintalism (The Bible and the Greeks [London, 1935], pp. 15-16).
45Cf. E. Lohse, Colossians and Philemon, pp. 35-36.
46A. R. C. Leaney takes the “sons (children) of God” in Rom. 8:19-21 as angels (“The Righteous Community in St. Paul,” SE 2 = TU 87 [Berlin, 1963], pp. 441-46).
471QS 11.7-8.