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Ephesians: An Introduction and Commentary (Bock) is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

touch the deepest part of a person, the part that drives a person and his or her way of seeing and acting. They are also spiritual because they come from and through the Spirit of God who energizes the image of God residing deep within us. These spiritual benefits come from heaven and are found in Christ. For Paul, there is nowhere else such spiritual treasure can be found. The way Paul makes this point is in three consecutive clauses, each introduced by the preposition en. We have been blessed with
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