Loading…

Ephesians and Colossians is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, leading New Testament scholar Charles Talbert distills interpretive insights for students in theology, biblical studies, and religion. Ephesians and Colossians approaches each text in its final, canonical form, proceeding by sense units rather than word-by-word or verse-by-verse. Thus the commentary follows the original train of thought as indicated by the author and not...

Ephesians 4:1 signals the beginning of the parenetic section of the letter with an appropriate I, therefore, … exhort you (cf. Rom 12:1). The term translated “exhort” (parakalō) was used in antiquity, in the context of the benefactor-benefaction system, to summon, exhort, and encourage those who had received a benefaction (charis) to respond appropriately to the giver of the gift. For example, in a letter of Ptolemy II to Miletus (c. 262/261 BC) the king describes kindnesses
Page 108
Buy this book at Logos.com