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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...

Εἰς παροξυσμόν: παροξυσμός refers to intense emotion, almost always of a negative kind, such as anger (Dt. 29:28 [LXX 27]; Je. 32(LXX 39):37, frequently of provoking the wrath of God) or strong disagreement (Acts 15:39**); also literally of an irritation or fever (H. Seesemann in TDNT 5.857); cf. 1 Cor. 13:5, ἡ ἀγάπη … οὐ παροξύνεται. It is no doubt for this reason that 𝔓46 reads ἐκ παροξυσμοῦ (Beare 384), “away from anger.” Glombitza 143 understands εἰς παροξυσμόν to mean “against
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