1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
EPHESIANS, EPISTLE TO THE. This book of the New Testament, the most general and least occasional and polemic of all the Pauline epistles, a large section of which seems almost like the literary elaboration of a theological topic, may best be described as a solemn oration, addressed to absent hearers, and intended not primarily to clarify their minds but to stir theii emotions. It is thus a true letter, but in the grand style, verging on the nature not of an essay but a poem. Ephesians has been called " the crown of…
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- Vol. 9, pp. 670-672