Paul’s perspective, then, is that Satan, who dwells in the region around the earth (Eph. 2:2), is actively trying to destroy the unity of the church. Our warfare is with him, not with flesh and blood (Eph. 6:12). By fostering disunity in the body of Christ, he destroys its witness to the oneness of God (Eph. 4:4–6), which it constantly seeks to make known through its unity, even to these principalities and powers in the heavenly places (3:10). The fifth
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