134 Cf. Eph. 1:23; 2:16; 4:4, 12, 16; 5:23, 30.
133Cf. also 1 Cor. 10:16-17; 11:29 (and, in more general terms, 1 Cor. 8:12; 2 Cor. 5:14; Gal. 3:27-28; 4:14).
134Cf. Eph. 1:23; 2:16; 4:4, 12, 16; 5:23, 30.
135Cf. S. Bedale, “The Meaning of ϰεφαλή in the Pauline Epistles,” JTS n.s. 5 (1954), 211-15.
136Cf., in addition to W. L. Knox (n. 130 above), T. Schmidt, Der Leib Christi (Leipzig, 1919); G. Johnston, The Doctrine of the Church in the New Testament (Cambridge, 1943), p. 87. Even if Paul’s language is influenced by Stoic terminology, the concepts expressed by his language are not Stoic ones.
137Cf. H. Schlier, Christus und die Kirche im Epheserbrief (Tübingen, 1930), pp. 37-60; E. Käsemann, Leib und Leib Christi (Tübingen, 1933), pp. 138-59; R. Bultmann, Theology of the New Testament, E.T., I (London, 1951), 178-79.