synagogue and church prayers. Hieratic traditions outside the Jewish and Christian communities are tainted by similar linguistic traits; liturgical diction has a tendency toward the archaic, clumsy, and unctuous. E. Haupt8 calls this style “lyric” and finds it divergent from Paul’s usual dramatic formation of clauses. It might be better termed hymnodic, for the author of Ephesians gives not only explicit encouragement to “talk to one another in psalms and hymns” (5:19), but he uses or himself composes