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This commentary series is established on the presupposition that the theological character of the New Testament documents calls for exegesis that is sensitive to theological themes as well as to the details of the historical, linguistic, and textual context. Such thorough exegetical work lies at the heart of these volumes, which contain detailed verse-by-verse commentary preceded by general...

theology.11 None of this seems to be in mind here, however,12 although Adam christology is prominent elsewhere in Paul’s theology (see also on 1:18b and particularly on 3:10). More to the point here is the importance in Hellenistic Judaism of the thought of divine Wisdom as the “image of God” (particularly Wis. 7:26; Philo, Legum allegoriae 1:43); also of the divine Logos in Philo (De confusione linguarum 97, 147; De fuga et inventione 101; De somnis 1.239; 2.45; Eltester 110). The invisible
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