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“Ephesians reads more like a sermon—in some parts more like a prayer or a mighty doxology—than a letter written to meet some special need in a church or group of churches. It is like a sermon on the greatest and widest them possible for a Christian sermon—the eternal purpose of God which he is fulfilling through his Son Jesus Christ, and working out in and through the church.” So starts Francis...

from him the Christian can do nothing (John 15:1–5), but there is available all the strength of his might. This phrase brings us back to two of the words that have been used already in 1:19 (and a third, dynamis, is the verb that he has employed), and the repetition gives the same emphasis on God’s resources of prevailing, triumphant power as we noted in that passage. 11. Such strength is needed, for the conflict is fierce and long. But Paul now expresses in another way the equipping that the Christian
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