ib.
15
spouvdason seauto;n dovkimon parasth'sai tw'/ qew'/
.
ib.
22
divwke de; dikaiosuvnhn, pivstin
,
ajgavphn, eijrhvnhn meta; t. ejpikaloumevnwn t. kuvrion ejk kaqara'" kardiva"
.
ib.
24
ajnexivkakon, ejn prau?thti paideuvonta tou;" ajntidiatiqemevnou"
. 3:10
th'/ pivstei, th'/ makroqumiva/, th'/ ajgavph/, th'/ uJpomonh'/
.
1Tim 5:14
thrh'saiv se th;n ejntolh;n a[spilon ajnepivlhmpton mevcri th'" ejpifaneiva" t. kurivou hJmw'n jI. Cr.
3:13
ejn pivstei th'/ ejn Cristw'/ jIhsou'
.
2Tim 3:19
dia; pivstew" th'" ejn Cristw'/ jIhsou'
.
ib.
16
wjfevlimo" pro;" didaskalivan, pro;" ejlegmovn, pro;" ejpanovrqwsin
,
pro;" paideivan th;n ejn dikaiosuvnh/, i{na a[rtio" h\/ oJ tou' qeou' a[nqrwpo", pro;" pa'n e[rgon ajgaqo;n ejxhrtismevno"
.
1Tim 6:1
{Osoi eijsi;n uJpo; zugo;n dou'loi, tou;" ijdivou" despovta" pavsh" timh'" ajxivou" hJgeivsqwsan
.
Tit 2:9
douvlou" ijdivoi" despovtai" uJpotavssesqai ejn pa'sin
,
eujarevstou" ei\nai
.
In the Epistle to the Ephesians the great mystery of the Christian Society is set forth under two images which include the essential truths of all later speculations. It is the Body of Christ in virtue of the one life which it derives from Him who is its Head , and it is the Temple of God, so far as it is built up in various ages and of various elements on the foundations which Christ laid, and of which He is the corner- stone. In the Pastoral Epistles this teaching is realised in the outlines of a visible society.
(
History of the Canon of the N.T.
, p. 32.)
IX. RELATION TO OTHER APOSTOLIC WRITINGS.
(
a
) The Epistle to the Ephesians and the First Epistle of St Peter.
The connexion, though close, does not lie on the surface. It is shewn more by identities of thought and similarity in the structure of the two Epistles as wholes than by identities of phrase.
(Hort,
Introductory Lecture to First Epistle of St Peter
, p. 5.)
The truth is that in the First Epistle of St Peter many thoughts are derived from the Epistle to the Ephesians, as others are from that to the Romans; but St Peter makes them fully his own by the form into which he casts them, a form for the most part unlike what we find in any Epistle of St Paul's.