who did the evils that their hearts incubated, as well as the deeper hostility of the adversary of God’s Messiah. Flesh-and-blood hostilities are one of the perennial evils every one of us faces. But this was not our current situation. Ephesians (and the rest of Scripture) extends the scope and depth of our awareness of evil. We don’t only wrestle with flesh and blood but with every enemy that Jesus will put underfoot (1 Cor. 15:25). The power of “the enemy” (Matt. 13:39; Luke 10:19) works to blind