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For my final month in San Diego, my Bible Study Group is going to be going through the epistles of St. John (1 John, 2 John, 3 John). However, this last week we reviewed our study of Ephesians. Here are the review\u00a0questions the group came up with:<\/p>\n
68. When was Ephesians written?<\/strong> 69.\u00a0What is significant about the destination of this epistle?<\/strong> 70.\u00a0What was Paul’s relationship with Ephesian Church?<\/strong> 71.\u00a0What does Paul write about in Ephesians?<\/strong> The Ephesians were mostly newly baptized Pagans and, because of this, some have referred to Ephesians as mystagogical catechesis.<\/p>\n Paul spends quite some time talking about \u201cmystery\u201d. This relates to Jesus\u2019 sacrifice on the cross which draws man, both Jew and Gentile, back into relationship with God. This relationship is communicated through the Church, which has Christ as her head.<\/p>\n 1-16<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a017-27<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a027-42<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a043-52<\/a> | 53-57<\/a> | 58-67<\/a> | 68-71 | 72-81<\/a> For my final month in San Diego, my Bible Study Group is going to be going through the epistles of St. John (1 John, 2 John, 3 John). However, this last week we reviewed our study of Ephesians. Here are the review\u00a0questions the group came up with: 68. When was Ephesians written? This letter is one of the “captivity epistles”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[35,1354,3161,2969],"class_list":["post-57274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith","tag-bible-study","tag-ephesians","tag-ephesus","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Ephesians.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57274"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57744,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57274\/revisions\/57744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis letter is one of the “captivity epistles” and therefore was probably written during Paul’s Roman captivity in the early 60s.<\/p>\n
\nMention of Ephesus in verse 1 is not found in the earliest manuscripts. It is therefore possible that this was a circular letter written to a number of congregations, one of which was Ephesus.<\/p>\n
\nChristianity was present\u00a0in Ephesus prior to Paul’s arrival. Paul used Ephesus as his base of operations for several years.<\/p>\n
\nPaul devotes most of the document to putting forth a vision of God\u2019s redemptive work, brought about through Christ and manifested in the Church.<\/p>\n
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