to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith’. These two petitions clearly belong together. Both refer to our innermost self, ‘the inner man’ in the first and ‘your hearts’ in the second. And although the first specifies the strength of ‘his Spirit’ and the other the indwelling of ‘Christ’, both surely refer to the same experience. For Paul never separates the second and third persons of the Trinity. To have Christ dwelling
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