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One of the earliest works of ground breaking scholar Richard Bauckham, this commentary provides a detailed examination of the socio-historical context with a special emphasis on the political state of the ancient world at the end of the first century. Bauckham reviews textual data, and draws out insight and applications for contemporary life.

virtue” (Bigg, Green; Zahn, Introduction, 220). In fact, δόξα καὶ ἀρετή was already a stock combination in Hellenistic writers, especially Plutarch (examples in Wettstein). In this context, ἀρετή is virtually synonymous with δόξα, and denotes the manifestation of divine power (Deissmann, Bible Studies, 97; TDNT 1, 461). The phrase is a rhetorical variation on θεία δύναμις (“divine power”) and presumably refers to the incarnate life, ministry and resurrection of Christ as a manifestation of divine
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