Abbreviations

The English text of biblical quotations is that of the New International Version, unless stated to the contrary.

AG A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature by William F. Arndt and F. Wilbur Gingrich (University of Chicago Press and Cambridge University Press, 1957
AV The Authorized (King James) Version of the Bible, 1611
JB The Jerusalem Bible (Darton, Longman and Todd, 1966
LXX The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, 3rd century BC
NEB The New English Bible (NT 1961, 2nd edition 1970; OT 1970
NIV The New International Version of the Bible (NT 1973; OT 1979
RSV The Revised Standard Version of the Bible (NT 1946, 2nd edition 1971; OT 1952