whom believers (“we”) belong (or “to/for whom we are intended or directed”). Then, in the very next line, Paul immediately also posits Jesus as the “one Lord” through whom all things have been created and through whom “we” are (or are redeemed and/or related to God).40 This passage is widely regarded by scholars as a striking interpretative adaptation of the wording of the Shemaʿ (Deut. 6:4), in what we may refer to as a novel “binitarian” direction.41 Paul’s phrasing here certainly affirms an exclusivist