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In this volume, Clinton Arnold highlights four themes that emerge in Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians: • The superior power of God over against spiritual powers. • The unity of Jews and Gentiles through Jesus Christ. • The encouragement for Gentiles believers to live holy lives before God. • The need for believers to be rooted in the knowledge of their new identity in Christ Jesus. Woven into...

adoption “to himself” (εἰς αὐτόν). This ties in with love as the basis for his predestinating act and reinforces the idea that he views his people as his own glorious inheritance (Eph 1:18). The final purpose of election is then relational. God is bringing together a people whom he can delight in and enjoy. Why does Paul choose to elaborate on election and commend this truth to the readers? It could be, as some have suggested, that he is in a more pensive mood with extra time on his hands as he
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