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Chapter five continues Paulās admonition from chapter four. In Ephesians 4:32 he told us to forgive like God; in Ephesians 5:1-5 we are told to imitate God in every way, specifically in our love for one another. Connecting back to Ephesians 2:1-3 and Ephesians 4:19-20 (and reminiscent of Galatians 5:16-23), the believerās life should not […]
Chapter four begins the second half of the letter with a major change in Paulās grammar and intent. The entire letter contains 41 imperative verbs (which is already a high percentage ); however, only one of them occurs in the first half (ārememberā in Ephesians 2:11). Thus, of the 197 verbs in chapters 4-6, more
Chapter three closes the major doctrinal section of this letter with three sections. The first section begins with āfor this reasonā (Ephesians 3:1), but Paul does not actually get to that reason until Ephesians 3:7 ā āI became a servant of this gospel.ā In Ephesians 3:2-6 Paul takes a side trail to explain why the information
