The Exaltation of Christ: the Elevation – Acclamation in Deutero-Pauline High Christology
The Exaltation of Christ: the Elevation – Acclamation in Deutero-Pauline High Christology

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of article is to analyse cultural meaning of keywords in the text Ephesians 1:20–23 and to find what may have been the author’s main motive for using these words in such ambitious and powerful constructions. Subsequent is form-critical and historical analysis of the keywords in the context of this Christological statement. The main topic of the paper is centred on four ancient Greek words that are related with principalities, powers, and all things in the above mentioned statement. We can conclude that the author of the Deutero-Pauline epistle used Hellenistic epistolography with citations from Hebrew scripture and fashioned the form of the statement according to his own liturgical purposes.

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