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2001:258–60, associates Isa 3:3 (σοφὸν ἀρχιτέκτονα) with 1 Cor 3:10, but Isaiah declares that God will take away such a person from Judea in divine judgment, which is not how Paul presents himself.

224. See Inkelaar 2011:284–85.

225. Shanor 1988:461–71; Watson, 1992:35. Bitner 2015b:212–24 relates this building to construction politics.

226. See Schrage 1991:1.298; Garland 2003:115.

227. E.g., Ker 2000:89; Smit 2002:242. Bitner 2015b:265–71, combining indefinite pronouns in this text, suggests this is Crispus, Apollos’s alleged advocate. Barrett 1968:91, believes Cephas’s party is in view.

228. See further, Oropeza 2012a:100.

229. See Mihaila 2009:201.

230. Cf. Kuck 1992:177.

231. See further Arzt-Grabner et al. 2006:151.

232. Bullinger 1898:141.

233. Kirk 2012:549, 552.

234. On another community as both plantation and holy place, see Qumran (1QS 8.5–8); Frayer-Griggs 2013b:522; cf. Hogeterp 2006:330–31.

235. Kirk 2012:554, 556–57.

236. Terms such as “temple,” “day,” burning, and associating the righteous with precious materials and wicked with flammable products, make Malachi a possible informant to Paul’s words. cf. Proctor 1993:11–13; Frayer-Griggs 2013b:523–24; Williams 2001:264–65, 269–72.

237. E.g., 1 En. 91.9–11; T. Zeb. 10.3; 4 Macc 12:12; Matt 3:12; Mark 9:48; 2 Pet 3:7.

238. In 3:15 ζημιόω can refer to punishment or suffering loss. Given the reward in 3:14, the latter is preferred (Yinger 1999:218–19).

239. Contrast Oberholtzer 1988:326. See further, Oropeza 8/2016.

240. In this apocalyptic context, σῴζω does not merely mean escape, as though fleeing from a burning house. The person is saved from divine wrath and final condemnation (1:18; 5:5; 9:22; 15:2; 2 Cor 2:15; Rom 5:9).

241. On Paul’s concept “in vain,” see Oropeza 2009:148.

242. Philo similarly mentions Jews who assimilate and abandon their religious traditions to gain social prominence in foreign lands (Jos. 254); his nephew Tiberius Julius Alexander exemplifies such apostasy (Josephus Ant. 20.100).

243. On eschatological loss of honor, see 1 En. 50.1–5; Herms 2006:187–210.

244. E.g., Isa 40:10; L.A.B. 64.7; Plato Rep. 10.613B; Plutarch Mor 943C­–D; Kuck 1992:143–44, 233–34; cf. 169.

245. Wendland 1946:23; Yinger 1999:213.

246. Although this purification is sometimes understood as purgatory (see Gregory the Great, Dial. 4.39; Montague 2011:76), it refers to an event taking place at Christ’s return, not a postmortem state between heaven and hell (Frayer-Griggs 2013b:526).

247 “By fire” (“ἐν πυρὶ” 3:13) and “as through fire” (“ὡς διὰ πυρός” 3:15) should probably be understood in an instrumental sense. Notice BDAG 1103, regarding “as” (ὡς): “marking the manner in which someth. Proceeds . . . corresponding to οὕτως=‘so, in such a way’ . . . as (one, in an attempt to save oneself, must go) through fire (and therefore suffer fr. burns).”

248. So Liu 2013:121.

249. E.g., Wis 9:1–18; Josephus Ant. 8.108–114; Hogeterp 2006:327–29.

250. Lanci 1997:134.

251. See Deissmann, 1965:79–81.

252. Yinger 1999:225.

253. See on the former point, Yinger 1999:225, and the latter, Keener 2005:43 (cf. Prov 26:27; Sir 27:25–27).

254. Rightly, Konradt 2003:278.

255. See “destroy” (φθείρω) in end-time judgment in Jude 10; 2 Pet 2:12. The term can alternatively mean “to corrupt” in a moral sense (Liu 2013:122–23), and so there is a possible play on the word φθείρω: “if anyone corrupts God’s temple, God will destroy that person.”

256. Cf. Thiselton 2000:318.

257. In 3:18 γενέσθω may be imperative or ingressive aorist indicating the start of the act (Thistelton 2000:321).

258. Paul refers to God as ὁ δρασσόμενος (“the one who catches”), but Job 5:13 uses ὁ καταλαμβάνων, which is similar in meaning. His version may reflect a Hebraizing of the LXX or a different Greek variant (see Stanley 1992:189–92). In any case δράσσομαι (more than καταλαμβάνω) reflects the ease of this activity (Inkelaar 2011:288). Job 5:13(LXX) uses “cleverness” (φρόνησις) instead of “craftiness” (πανουργία). Paul’s πανουργία may be influenced by Job 5:12, which states that God changes the counsel of “the crafty ones” (πανούργων).