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In this comprehensive new commentary, John Muddiman begins by arguing that to be able to draw conclusions about the text of Ephesians, each scholar must take a position about its Pauline or non-Pauline authorship. He therefore offers an extensive introduction, which discusses various approaches to this question, including his own, detailing the evidence for each position. All the perspectives of...

in the opening blessing (1:4); so this first possibility should not be dismissed out of hand; it would parallel the statement at Col. 1:16. Secondly, taking into account the way the same verb is used at 2:15, where Christ ‘created’ one new person in himself, the moment of creation referred to might be the historic event of the cross and resurrection: ‘in Christ’ would then be emphatic, meaning incorporation into Christ as the representative of the new humanity, in Paul’s term, the last Adam. The
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