Ephesians is among the greatest letters under the name of the apostle Paul. Though it has but six rather short chapters and is written in an often painfully ponderous style, it conveys weighty doctrines, warm exhortations and, above all, an urgent invitation to praise God. For a long time Ephesians has been overshadowed, especially in Protestant quarters, by Paul’s epistles to the Galatians and Romans. Among the historical-critical scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the questions