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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...

thrust of Gal. 3:28.196 It is of course quite true that Paul does not appear here in the guise of a modern feminist. He still speaks of the headship of the man in the family. But that headship has been transformed by the model of Christ. It is precisely the Christian aspects added to this code in a more dramatic way than in the Colossian code that show where the argument is leading, as does the setting of the discussion in the context of v. 21 where all are submitting to one another. In other words,
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