213 Cf. Rom. 16:25; 1 Cor. 2:7-10.
211Gk. οἰϰονομία, used to denote Paul’s special service also in 1 Cor. 9:17 and, more particularly, in Eph. 3:2, 9, where (as here) he speaks of himself as a steward of the divine mystery, that is, the divine purpose of bringing Gentile believers into one community with Jewish believers, as fellow-heirs of the promises of God and fellow-members of the body of Christ.
212Cf. Rom. 15:19, where Paul, early in A.D. 57, claims that he has “fully preached (Gk. πεπληϱωϰέναɩ, ‘fulfilled’) the gospel of Christ” from Jerusalem to Illyricum. J. Munck (Paul and the Salvation of Mankind, p. 48) compares our present passage and Rom. 15:19 (with 2 Tim. 4:17, “that through me the message might be fully declared [πληϱοφοϱηθῇ], and that all the Gentiles might hear”) with the bringing in of the πλήϱωμα τѽν ἐθνѽν in Rom. 11:25.
213Cf. Rom. 16:25; 1 Cor. 2:7-10.
214Aram. rāz, a word of Iranian derivation (rendered μυστήϱɩον in Gk.); the interpretation is Aram. pešar (Heb. pēšer, as in Eccl. 8:1), rendered σύγϰϱɩσɩς in Greek. Cf. F. F. Bruce, Biblical Exegesis in the Qumran Texts (Grand Rapids/London, 1960), pp. 7-11.