I have been searching high and low for a use of morphe in the Koine
Greek outside the context of pagan religious literature and have
come to the conclusion that one does not exist. If anyone knows
of one, I would greatly appreciated the reference.
I found the following reference enlightening.
Moulton and Mulligan, "The Vocaulary of New Testament Greek". The copy
I quote is from 1952. ' Kennedy (ad Phil 2:6 in EGT) has shown from
the LXX usage that "the word had come, in later Greek, to receive
a vague, general meaning, FAR REMOVED from the accurate, metaphysical
content which belonged to it in writers like Plato and Aristotle."
And then Moulton adds ' Hence the meaning must _NOT_ be
over-pressed in the NT occurrences." (e.a.)
Sincerely,
Larry Kruper