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This collection of three commentaries in one volume completes F. F. Bruce’s lifelong study of Paul’s writings. With the publication of this volume, Bruce—one of the most respected New Testament scholars in the world—finished writing commentaries on all the Pauline epistles except the Pastorals. According to Bruce, there are important reasons for linking Colossians, Philemon, and Ephesians...

Israel, who alone does wondrous things” (Ps. 72:18).21 The same construction is reproduced in the NT: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, … who comforts us …” (2 Cor. 1:3–4); “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who … has begotten us anew …” (1 Pet. 1:3).22 Here too the reasonfor blessing God is given in a similar clause: “who has blessed us.…”23 The same verb is used for men and women’s blessing God and for his blessing them, but not in the same sense. In
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