Chapter three closes the major doctrinal section of this letter with three sections. The first section begins with âfor this reasonâ (Ephesians 3:1), but Paul does not actually get to that reason until Ephesians 3:7 â âI became a servant of this gospel.â In Ephesians 3:2-6 Paul takes a side trail to explain why the information […]
Chapter two, again, divides neatly into two sections; the first addresses salvation (Ephesians 2:1-10), the second adds new revelation about the Church (Ephesians 2:11-22). In Ephesians 2:1-3 Paul set out the natural state of unsaved humanity. Without Christ we are âdead in our transgressions and sins,â living âaccording to this worldâs present pathâ which is
IntroductionThough the author of Ephesians is not widely debated, its recipients are. Most English Bibles read âto the saints in Ephesusâ in Ephesians 1:1, but some of the earliest Greek manuscripts do not include âin Ephesus,â naming no one specifically. There are several points of interest surrounding this. First, Paul was a prisoner at the time
