the participle—‘destined … according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things’—and here too it is included in the sphere of Christ by the introductory relative pronoun ἐν ᾧ.The semantic field ‘election’, ‘pre-recognition’, ‘predestination’, (divine) ‘intention’ (πρόθεσις) is also to be found in Paul (cf. especially Rom. 8:28c–9; 9:11; 1 Cor. 2:7) but never connected with the thought that we are chosen and predestined ‘in Christ’. In this statement, peculiar to Eph., what is under discussion