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Definition of Ephesians

1. Noun. A New Testament book containing the epistle from Saint Paul to the Ephesians which explains the divine plan for the world and the consummation of this in Christ.

Definition of Ephesians

1. Noun. (plural of Ephesian) ¹

2. Proper noun. (biblical) The tenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, an epistle to the people of w:Ephesus Ephesus which is attributed to w:Paul the Apostle Paul the Apostle. ¹

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Literary usage of Ephesians

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The Epistle to the ephesians was, therefore, written to distant churches, located perhaps in various provinces [Pontus, Galatia, Polemonium (the kingdom of ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Seen from this angle, ephesians is peculiarly Pauline (i. ... Colossians, if its entangling alliance with ephesians did not handicap it, could defend itself ..."

3. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"But inasmuch as love does not permit me to 1 Another inscription is, " Epistle the Second, which is to the ephesians." Literally, " bound from actions. ..."

4. Introduction to the New Testament by Theodor Zahn (1909)
"THE GENUINENESS OF THE EPISTLES TO THE ephesians AND COLOSSIANS. Among earlier critics many accepted the Pauline authorship of Colossians, ..."

5. Literature of Theology: A Classified Bibliography of Theological and General by John Fletcher Hurst (1896)
"DD Commentary on ephesians. Pp. 244, 8vo. Bost.: Gould, 1859. 85 cents. PULSFORD, JOHN. Christ and his Seed. Central to all Things; being a Series of ..."

6. Sermons by Hugh Latimer (1906)
"SAINT Paul, the holy apostle, writeth this epistle unto the ephesians, that is, to the people of the city of Ephesus. He writeth generally, to them all; ..."

7. An Introduction to the New Testament by Adolf Jülicher (1904)
"44); of H. Oltramare (in French, published at Geneva, 1891 and 1892) on Colossians, ephesians and Philemon (the latter a very conservative although in parts ..."

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