Week 46 Ephesians
Galatians-Ephesians-Philippians-Colossians.
Four letters written by Paul.
Averaging five chapters and 126 verses each.
The longest is just a bit over seven pages, the shortest almost five.
I don’t know why but I tend to lump the four letters together. Consecutive order. Similar size. A kind of Ancient Near-Eastern Literary Quartet. It’s an imaginary similarity that I’ve created inside my head. I’m sure those four places were different so I admit I’m likely wrong clumping them. But I wonder ‘how wrong?’
Like if I was in Mombasa last week, Mumbai this week, Hanoi next week, finished the month in Vladivostok and then told you that they were all kind of the same then I guess you would wonder about that, wonder ‘how wrong is Joe?’
So I’m looking for differences.
Note: I’m already finished Galatians. I saw there that a big problem for the churches – and a big concern for Paul – was that an unidentified guy who was a believer in the Lord, a guy who agreed that the Lord was great and that his death and resurrection were terrific, had kind of cloak-and-daggered a hybridized version of the gospel into the church: believe in the Lord and practice OT regulations. So, one of Paul’s big points was that the gospel plus something else isn’t the gospel anymore.