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Noted New Testament scholar Frank Thielman offers a substantive yet accessible commentary on Ephesians. With extensive research and thoughtful chapter-by-chapter exegesis, this beautifully written commentary leads readers through all aspects of the book of Ephesians—sociological, historical, and theological—to help them better understand its meaning and relevance.

Spirit of God (Fee 1994: 28–32). “Spiritual blessings,” therefore, are the benefits that come as gracious gifts from the Spirit of God and that Paul describes in 1:4–14 (Aletti 2001: 56). We learn more about the nature of these “spiritual blessings” when Paul describes them as ἐν τοῖς ἐπουρανίοις (en tois epouraniois, in the heavenly places) and ἐν Χριστῷ (en christō, in Christ). In the NT outside of Ephesians, ἐπουράνιος (epouranios, heavenly) is always associated with God and often stands
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