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Ephesians is a veritable compendium of Paul’s theology, and among his most influential epistles. In it we learn of the reconciliation of the cosmos and our eternal election in Christ, as well as salvation by grace through faith apart from works, the mystery of salvation for the Gentiles, the divine gift of the holy ministry, the church as Christ’s bride and body, the Christological meaning of...

arose in a similar context of a congregation divided (more deeply than Ephesus), before whose eyes Paul held up the image of Christ’s body as the source of unity (cf. Rom 12:4–5). In both 1 Corinthians 12 and Ephesians, a baptismal focus is explicit;44 but “one body” can equally evoke the uniting gift of the Lord’s Supper, in which the common reception of the Lord’s sacramental body unites the mystical body of the church (1 Cor 10:17; 11:23–29).45 It is in the nature of the Sacraments to make the
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