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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...

i.e. ‘prevaricate’. Paul uses the verb in its positive soteriological sense at Gal. 3:13 with a personal object, ‘Christ has redeemed us’, though it can hardly have that sense here, for it is people who are redeemed in the soteriological sense, not time. In this ethical context it must mean ‘buying up’ or ‘cornering the market in time’ or ‘making the most of every opportunity’. The reason given for not wasting time—that precious commodity—is because these are evil times. A more natural reason for
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