CHAPTER II: THE ETERNAL PURPOSE.

THE WRITER AND READERS. PAGE Contrast of Galatians and Ephesians--Pauline qualities of Ephesians: intellectual, historical, theological, spiritual, ethical--The Idea of the Church--The Person of Christ--Ephesians and Colossians--Style of Ephesians--Circular Hypothesis--Epistle from Laodicea--Designation of the Readers--Faithful Brethren [1]3 PRAISE AND PRAYER.

THE ETERNAL PURPOSE. The Apostle's Hymn of Praise--Blessed be God!--Blessing spiritual, heavenly, Christian--In the Beginning the Election of Grace--The World and its Founder--Redemption embedded in Creation--God's prescient Choice--Our Holiness His Purpose--Divine Adoption--Who are the Elect?
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