IntroductionThough the author of Ephesians is not widely debated, its recipients are. Most English Bibles read “to the saints in Ephesus” in Ephesians 1:1, but some of the earliest Greek manuscripts do not include “in Ephesus,” naming no one specifically. There are several points of interest surrounding this. First, Paul was a prisoner at the time […]
Philippians is one of the four “prison epistles,” written when Paul was under house arrest in Rome (Acts 28:30-31). Unlike Ephesians, Colossians, and Philemon, which do not indicate how long he had been there, Philippians seems to show that Paul thought he would be released soon (Philippians 1:19-26). Though it contains Paul’s typical mix of
Peter’s intended recipients were people scattered throughout Asia Minor. The word diaspora, “dispersion,” is used elsewhere only twice. In James 1:1 the “twelve tribes” are specified, and in John 7:25 it refers to Jews dispersed “among the Greeks. استراتيجيات الروليت ” Although there are principles available for all Christians of all time, since Peter was
