about your faith,” some have concluded that the letter could not have been intended for the Ephesians, because Paul would not speak that way to people whom he had served for three years. Note, however, that Paul had been in captivity in Rome for almost three years by the time he wrote this letter. Hence, it is entirely likely that Paul’s best and most recent source of information about the readers was what he had heard via the reports that had come to him. Be that as it may, it doesn’t change Paul’s