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Thomas B. Slater’s commentary on Ephesians transports the modern reader into the world of the early church. Slater asserts that Ephesians was written to persuade its original audience that an ethnically inclusive church based on religious affiliation and faithfulness was part of God’s plan. Both Jew and Gentile are equal partners in the new religious commonwealth. Slater addresses two important...

While all sides of the debate have their pluses and minuses, I think that Ephesians is deutero-Pauline. Determinative for me is the writing style. When one objectively examines the Greek of Ephesians, with an agenda neither to uphold the tradition nor to question it, one finds a mode of writing unlike any other in the New Testament. Romans, Galatians, and Philippians, to name a few, come directly to the point and require a position to be taken. Ephesians, on the other hand, adds prepositional phrase
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