ordering the world,” is notoriously difficult to pin down.14 The meaning of oikonomia doubtless follows from its root, οἶκος (oikos, “house”), and is generally thought to refer to the mundane routines of managing a household. Perhaps one hears resonances of a similar phrase, θεοῦ οἰκονόμος (theou oikonomos), which Paul uses in Tit 1:7 of the congregation’s ἐπίσκοπος (episkopos) or “administrator” (see 1 Tim 3:1–7) and in Gal 4:1–2 of the heir’s relationship to his “trustees” (so NASB, οἰκονόμοι,