from a reticence to suggest a form of adoptionism whereby Jesus is ‘made’ or ‘appointed’ Son of God; that is, he was not the Son of God until the resurrection. However, as Moo points out, Paul has already affirmed Jesus’ divine sonship: the gospel is ‘God’s gospel’ concerning ‘his Son’ (v. 3), and so it is ‘the Son who is “appointed” Son’.112 The next qualifying phrase is ‘in power’ (en dynamei). This could be understood to qualify horisthentos (‘decisively established’113) or huiou theou (‘son-of-God-in-power;
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