group, ἐλεύθερος and ἐλευθεροῦν are not in 2 Cor., and ἐλευθεροῦν is not in 1 Cor. υἱοθεσία not in 1 Cor. or 2 Cor.; φύσις not in 2 Cor.; χρηστός not in 2 Cor. or Gal.; leaving διαθήκη (once in iii.) and ἐλευθερία (twice in ili.) as the only words that are evenly distributed in group ii.
Among those which do not occur in group i., viz., γνωρίζειν, κατεργάζεσθαι, σπλάγχνα, τέλειος, φρονεῖν, χαρίζεσθαι, we notice that of the twenty instances οὗ κατεργάζεσθαι seventeen occur in Rom. and 2 Cor.; σπλάγχνα, not found in Rom., 1 Cor. or Gal., occurs three times in Philem.; none of the τέλειος group is found in 2 Cor. or Gal., while τελειοῦν and τελειότης are absent from Rom. and 1 Cor. Of the thirty-four instances of the φρονεῖν group, one of which is 1 Tim. vi. 17, Rom. and Phil. account for twenty-five; φρόνημα is only found in Rom., φρόνησις only in Eph., φρόνιμος only in Rom., 1 Cor., and 2 Cor.; leaving γνωρίζειν and χαρίζεσθαι fairly repre- sentative words.
It remains to notice a few of these characteristically Pauline words which are not found in Philippians, viz.: ἀκαθαρσία, καταργεῖν, ὁρᾶν, παράδοσις, πλεονεκτεῖν, and υἱὸς τ. Θεοῦ. ἀκαθαρσία is not found in 1 Cor.; καταργεῖν does, in point of fact, occur in 2 Tim. ; ὁρᾶν, found in 1 Tim. tii. 16, does not occur in 2 Cor. or Gal., παράδοσις not in Rom. or 2 Cor.; none of the πλεονεκτεῖν group is found in Gal., while πλεονεκτεῖν and πλεονεξία are both absent from 1 Cor., and πλεονέκτης from 2 Cor. Of the seventeen places where our Lord is called υἱὸς [τ. Θεοῦ,] eleven are found in Rom. and Gal.
In the whole list, then, there are twenty-seven words, or more than half, the absence of which from the Pastorals obviously need call for noremark. The following facts with regard to the distribution of some of the others are suggestive ; and diminish, if they do not wholly remove, the difficulty of the problem before us. ἕκαστος (42) occurs twenty-two times in 1 Cor.; of the ἐνέργεια group (29) three members are not found in Rom., 2 Cor., or Gal., i.e., ἐνέργεια, ἐνέργημα, ἐνεργής ; neither is ἐνέργεια found in 1 Cor. Of the twenty- seven occurrences of κἀγώ, more than half, nineteen, are found in 1 Cor. and 2 Cor. Of the καυχᾶσθαι group (55) more than half, twenty-nine, occur in 2 Cor; παραλαμβάνειν (11) is not found in Rom. or 2 Cor. πατὴρ ἡμῶν, apart from its common use in salutations, is found three times in 1 Thess., twice in 2 Thess., and once each in Gal. and Phil. Of the περισσεία group (39), none is found in Gal. ; three not in 1 Cor., 1.6., περισσεία, περισσός and περίσσευμα ; two not in Rom., 7.é., περίσσευμα and περισσότερος. On the other hand, nearly half, seventeen, of the total is found in 2 Cor. (which has also περισσο-