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"The Captivity Letters are a rich deposit of Christian truth, waiting to be excavated and used in the church's ministry," says Ralph Martin. In his commentary, he singles out two themes that are high on today's agenda of theological and practical inquiry and planning. These themes are the cosmic dimensions of Christological teaching and the role of the church as God's locus and agent of...

the body, not separate from it or placed over it; and (c) the wording of verse 16b: “the whole body grows and builds itself up through love” (GNB). Love—extolled in 1 Corinthians 13 and to be applied in the author’s forthcoming section of 5:25–33 to Christ and the church as a model for human relationships—is known in Paul’s thought as that attitude and action which casts aside self-promotion and seeks the well-being of others (1 Cor. 8:1).
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