“... Contact with the tradition in 4:14 is clear from the characteristic verb (apodidōmi) and the standard or criterion of recompense (“according to his/her deeds” [kata ta erga autou]). This application is somewhat unusual among the various expressions of the principle because it takes the form of a specific pronouncement (apodōsei is future indicative) of judgment on an individual. In this it inclines to the application of the principle in Psalm 27:4 in the Septuagint, and we hear in Paul’s pronouncement the sentiments of the oppressed there (almost an imprecation, and it would be if the verb were subjunctive or optative, as a few manuscripts weakly attest; but it is hardly a “curse” [pace Dibelius and Conzelmann 1972: 123]): appeal is made to God to mete out to the oppressors what their evil deeds deserve. ...”