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The Letters to Philemon, the Colossians, and the Ephesians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on the Captivity Epistles is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume completes Ben Witherington’s contributions to the set of Eerdmans socio-rhetorical commentaries on the New Testament. In addition to the usual features of these commentaries, Witherington offers an innovative way of looking at Colossians, Ephesians, and Philemon as interrelated documents written at different levels of moral discourse. In Philemon we see Paul using moral discourse in...

and a slow temper—makrothymia means a slow fuse.17 This sort of patience involves putting up with life’s irritations and the irritable habits of fellow believers. “For the believer, patience is that cautious endurance that does not abandon hope.”18 Notice that this advice is given to Christians about their relationships with other Christians. The text says “put up with one another in love.” Paul is not a naive idealist and does not assume that everyone in the body of Christ will naturally get along
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