Footnote

a The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, commenting on the use of the verb la·treuʹein (to render sacred service), says; “The comprehensive use of latreuin for the whole conduct of the righteous toward God is found first in Lk. 1:74.” “ . . . in Phil. 3:3 we again find latreuʹein in a broad metaphysical sense in which it comprises the whole of Christian existence.”​—Vol. IV, pp. 63, 64.