176 Cf. 2 Cor. 5:18-20.
176Cf. 2 Cor. 5:18-20.
177Cf. J. Knox, Chapters in a Life of Paul (London, 1954), pp. 146-55.
178But not in the sense that they, as individuals, had ever been in another relation to God than one of estrangement. Here, as in Eph. 2:12 and 4:18, the perfect participle passive ἀπηλλοτϱɩωμένος is equivalent to the adjective ἀλλóτϱɩος. As for their being hostile in mind (τῇ δɩανοίᾳ), it is to be observed that in the NT, as in the LXX, this word corresponds to Heb. lēḇ, lēḇāḇ, “heart.” See C. Masson, L’Épître aux Éphésiens (Neuchâtel/Paris, 1953), p. 159, n. 3.