O uso do antigo testamento na carta aos efésios

uma análise exegética da citação que efésios 4,8 faz dos salmos 68,18.

Abstract

This article aims to understand the quote made by the author of Ephesians to the book of Psalms, but specifically to Psalm 68,18. Such a quotation raises a number of problems, for the way in which the author of Ephesians quotes the text from the Psalter is not attested by the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint. Thus this article deals primarily with the letter to the Ephesians, a Deutero-Pauline letter that was written in the first century AD and that, possibly, it was a circular letter. This writing, compared to other New Testament texts, makes few citations to the Old Testament, but the quote from Psalm 68 draws a lot of attention. A comparison is made between the quotation of the Psalm as it is in the letter to the Ephesians with the texts of the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint, showing the clear differences that exist between the texts, in particular the exchange of the verb “receive” for “give”. ”. Then we try to understand the plot of Psalm 68 and how its main theme, the triumph of the God of Israel, inspired the midrash pesher of the author of the letter to the Ephesians to show Christ as the exalted Lord who distributes gifts to his people, the Church.