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Focus on the power of Paul’s persuasive rhetoric and message in this commentary from Andrew T. Lincoln. Situating the epistle in its historical context, evaluating competing claims of authorship, and examining textual history of the book, Lincoln offers a fresh reading of this challenging epistle that expresses Paul’s vision for ecclesiastical and domestic life.

lay behind that contrast, Paul had talked of drunkenness as a prime characteristic of the darkness. In 1 Thess 5:6–8, sobriety by contrast is seen as a quality of the light. In Rom 13:12, 13, drunkenness, as here in Eph 5, is associated with debauchery. It looks, then, as though the writer may well have gone back to these sources, as he will do again later in 6:11–17 for his imagery of the believer’s armor, and have drawn on them to continue the contrast from the beginning of this section between
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