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the stewardship of the mystery
Archons and Powers in the heavenly places,
glory.
the riches of his glory,
made mighty with power
superabundantly more
glory
walk in a way worthy of the call by which you were called,
peace:
15But rather, speaking truth in love, we may in all things grow into him who is the head, the Anointed,
the irreverent frivolity of their mind, 18Being darkened in intellect,
Alienated, NRSV
the petrification of their heart,
unfeeling,
acquisiti...
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be renewed in your intellect’s spirit,
speak the truth to his neighbor,
26Be indignant and yet do not sin; do not let the sun set on what provokes your anger, 27Neither give the Slanderer a place.
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. KJV
1Become imitators of God,
acquisitiveness—
foul conduct and imbecile chatter and flippancy,
acquisitive
you are light; walk as children of light—
25Husbands, love your wives, just as the Anointed loved the assembly and gave himself up on her behalf,
8Knowing that whatever good thing each man does, this will be rewarded him by the Lord, whether a slave or a freeman.
both their Lord and yours is in the heavens, and with him there is no respecting of persons.
God’s panoply,
3. ‹historical› ‹literary› a complete set of arms or suit of armor.
The verb here and in the following verses, ὑποτάσσω (hypotassō), literally means “subordinate,” in the sense either of “arranging under” or of being “sub-ordinated to”; but it can also mean being “stationed under the shelter” of something or someone, like a horse tethered beneath an awning,
Strengthened
longanimity,
Neologism. Patience is more reasonable (RSV), or long-suffering (ASV), long-suffering AND patience (KJV).
qualified us, called us, enabled us
Inheritance, NRSV
Transferred, NRSV
Redemption
plausible talk.
“the elements of the cosmos,” “the principles of the cosmos,” perhaps “the elemental spirits of the cosmos.”
It is an obscure phrase, and it is not elucidated in what follows.
“elementary” aspects of language,
“Elementals,” as in my rendering: elemental spirits of the (fallen) world,
spiritual powers on high who govern the nations (as in v. 10 below),
fallen angels of the natural world
The image here can easily be missed, especially if the pudency of traditional translations substitutes the word “uncircumcision” for “foreskin.” Paul seems not to mean simply that his readers were once uncircumcised in body, but that their flesh itself (as opposed to spirit) constituted a “foreskin” that was removed by a circumcision not accomplished by hand, baptism into Christ and the new covenant (vv. 11–12 above).
And see Romans
Thessalonikans,
Macedonia and Achaea
??
await his Son out of the heavens,
who delivers us from the approaching ire.
Philippi
you should excel at it still more.
