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Edited by David Platt, Daniel L. Akin, and Tony Merida, this new commentary series, projected to be 48 volumes, takes a Christ-centered approach to expositing each book of the Bible. Rather than a verse-by-verse approach, the authors have crafted chapters that explain and apply key passages in their assigned Bible books. Readers will learn to see Christ in all aspects of Scripture, and they will...

Paul writes “to the faithful saints in Christ Jesus at Ephesus.” There is a lot of discussion about whether “at Ephesus” was part of the original wording here. Although some early documents do include it, others omit it without providing any geographical name in its place, which leaves us with an awkward grammatical construction (Thielman, Ephesians, 13; O’Brien, Ephesians, 85). It could be that it was simply dropped somehow. F. F. Bruce thinks the churches of Asia Minor
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