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Focus on the power of Paul’s persuasive rhetoric and message in this commentary from Andrew T. Lincoln. Situating the epistle in its historical context, evaluating competing claims of authorship, and examining textual history of the book, Lincoln offers a fresh reading of this challenging epistle that expresses Paul’s vision for ecclesiastical and domestic life.

Lincoln, Paradise, 144). In the OT the angels can be called “holy ones” (ἅγιοι: LXX Job 15:15; Ps 88:6, 8; Isa 57:15; Amos 4:2; Dan 8:13), and the language of inheritance is used in connection with them at Qumran—“God has given them to his chosen ones as an everlasting possession, and has caused them to inherit the lot of the Holy Ones” (1QS 11.7, 8; cf. also 1QH 11.7, 8)—so that the elect community on earth is seen as joined with the angels in heaven. In Paul ἅγιοι does appear to refer to angels
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