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Micah 6:8.

Amos 5:24.

Hosea 6:6. For the word hesed see Glueck, Das Wort hesed (Giessen, 1927) translated by A. Gottschalk, Hesed in the Bible (Cincinnati 14 1967) pp. 56 ff. “The Concept of Grace in the Book of Hosea,” ZAW 70 (1958), pp. 98–106.

Magnesians IX, 1.

Richardson, op. cit., p. 163.

Didache, XIV, 1.

Although the exact date for The Epistle of Barnabas is impossible to determine, Bacchiocchi seems to have allowed his thesis to influence his dating of this document. 135 A.D. is a very late date. Cyril C. Richardson, for example, dates his epistle at 100–130 A.D. in Early Christian Fathers (New York Macmillan, 1970), p. 162.

Eduard Lohse, “Sabbaton”, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Vol. VII. ed. Gerhard Kittle. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1971), p. 33.

A well-known example of emphasis falling on the last item in a list is found in 1 Corinthians 13:13, “Meanwhile these three remain faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is love.”

On Nebuchadnezzar’s museum and its contents, see Unger, Assyrische und babylonische Kunst 63–66; idem, Babylon, die heilige Stadt (Berlin and Leipzig, 1931), 224–28.