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OIKONOMA = "COVENANT"; TERMS FOR HEILSGESCI-fICHTE IN EARLY CHRISTIAN USAGE BY JOHN REUMANN, Ph.D. Cambridge, England is a rare but important New Testament word de- noting God's plan of salvation 1). It appears in Paul, at i Cor. ix 17 and Col. i 25, with reference to the "commission" or "stewardship" or "divine office" granted to him in God's program. In Ephesians the term means not only "the stewardship of God's grace" (iii 2) given to the Apostle to the Gentiles, but also, in an application which goes beyond any earlier Pauline nuance, refers to the plan itself of God, "set forth in Christ ... for the fulness of time" (i io), "the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God ... which he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord" (iii 9), what C. LESLIE MITTON has called God's "planned economy", "statesmanship", "general- ship", or "strategy" for man's salvation 2). This use of oikonomia for the divine plan of salvation occurs much more frequently in early Christian literature outside the canon. Ignatius, for instance, in his letter to the Ephesians (20, z ; cf. 18, 2), speaks of the "economy relating to the new man Jesus
Novum Testamentum – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1959
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