Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Wherefore he saith (dio legei). As a confirmation of what Paul has said. No subject is expressed in the Greek and commentators argue whether it should be o qeov (God) or h grafh (Scripture). But it comes to God after all. See Acts 2:17. The quotation is from Psalms 68:18, a Messianic Psalm of victory which Paul adapts and interprets for Christ's triumph over death.
He led captivity captive (hxmalwteusen aixmalwsian). Cognate accusative of aixmalwsian, late word, in N.T. only here and Revelation 13:10. The verb also (aixmalwteuw) is from the old word aixmalwtov, captive in war (in N.T. only in Luke 4:18), in LXX and only here in N.T.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Ephesians 4:8:
Ephesians 4:11
Revelation 13:10
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