When one takes up the study of Ephesians, he finds that commentators and preachers outdo themselves in lavish encomiums. It has been called “[t]he crown and climax of Pauline theology,”1 “[t]he sublimest communication ever made to men,”2 “the quintessence of Paulinism,”3 “the consummate and most comprehensive statement which even the New Testament contains of the meaning of the Christian religion. It is certainly the final statement of Pauline theology.”4 Samuel Taylor Coleridge called it
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