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Ephesians presents believers with assurance, exhilarating worship, and forceful exhortation--a bracing challenge. Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld listens to the letter with the conviction that worship and work are one, and that faithfulness is a gift of grace. The church treasures Ephesians as a rich resource for worship, theology, and exhortation. Power, peace, and new creation are gifts of grace that...

In Ephesians, we can observe a rather significant transformation of the tradition at this point. Blood and flesh are not the enemy. Blood and flesh are under the control of the enemy (2:2, notes). The church must struggle against that enemy, not against the victims of that enemy. Markus Barth misses this point by suggesting that the author’s choice of the rare term palē (struggle) over polemos (war) or machē (fight) reflects pacifist tendencies (1974:764). Most often in ancient literature, palē
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