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Unlike Paul’s letters to the Galatians or the Corinthians, the letter to the Ephesians contains almost no clues about the situation and issues its recipients faced. Nevertheless, the letter vividly depicts how God’s will revealed in Christ reorients believers’ lives toward unity, mutual respect, submission, and love—in short, new life in Christ, relying on his power and strength. In this Tyndale...

the ‘word of Christ’ is said to ‘dwell’ in us ‘richly’. In Colossians 3, it is the content that is stressed (the word of Christ), while here it is the agent who makes that word effective (the Spirit himself). The sharing of roles between Christ and the Spirit in this kind of language reflects the intermix of activity within the Godhead, where roles are shared, not so much differentiated. For Paul, the Spirit of God is a key enabler of the spiritual life (Rom. 5:5; 8:4, 9–11; 1 Cor. 2:12; 3:16–17;
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