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Κα μλιστα οἰκεων – A New Look at 1 Timothy 5.8

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

R. A. Campbell
R. A. Campbell
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(Spurgeon's College, 189 South Norwood Hill, London SE25 6DJ, England)
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New Testament Studies , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 157 - 160
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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References

1 Unless otherwise stated all biblical quotations in this article are from RSV.

2 Lock, W., A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on The Pastoral Epistles (ICC; Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1936) 59Google Scholar. Cf. Bernard, J. H., The Pastoral Epistles (Cambridge: CUP, 1890) 81.Google Scholar

3 Michel, O., ‘οἶκος κτλ’ TDNT 5.134–5.Google Scholar

4 Knight, G. W., The Pastoral Epistles, A Commentary on the Greek Text (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992) 221.Google Scholar

5 Whitaker, G. H., ‘Of the Household: Is the Rendering Correct?’, Expositor 8/23 (1922) 76–9.Google Scholar

6 Whitaker, 77.

7 Lightfoot, J. B., St Paul's Epistle to the Galatians (London: Macmillan, 1876) 220Google Scholar; Betz, H. D., Galatians (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1979) 311Google Scholar; Longenecker, R. N., Galatians (Dallas: Word, 1990) 283.Google Scholar

8 So Lincoln, A. T., Ephesians (Dallas: Word, 1990) 152Google Scholar, rejecting the view of Merklein and Mußner that the reference is cultic.

9 Indeed Israel is only once referred to as God's οκος (Num 12.7), although the phrase ‘house of Israel’, ‘house of Judah’ is common enough.

10 Hanson, A. T., The Pastoral Epistles (London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1982) 28–31 and 199.Google Scholar

11 Betz, Galatians, 311.

12 Verner shows convincingly that the reference is to the Christian community and not to an architectural structure, whether literal or metaphorical: Verner, D. C., The Household of God (Chico, Cal.: Scholars, 1983) 109–10.Google Scholar

13 It is not in fact common in the NT, being found otherwise only in Heb 3.6,10.21 and 1 Pet 4.17.

14 Skeat, T. C., ‘“Especially the Parchments”: a Note on 2 Timothy 4:13’, JTS 30 (1979) 173–7CrossRefGoogle Scholar. His view has been adopted by subsequent commentators on the Pastorals including Hanson and Knight.

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