In the first part of the third chapter of Ephesians, there are a couple of things that get my attention. One is what appears to be a parenthesis running from verse two to verse thirteen. (Notice that Paul picks up where verse one left off when he gets to verse fourteen.) I guess he would have loved to have a word processor of some kind, instead of a scribe unwilling to start over that far into the letter.
The other thing that stands out in the first part of the chapter, inside the parentheses, in the middle of all that mystery talk, is the fourth time that something is said about the heavenly places, in case anyone is not counting. There is one more coming later in the book, making five in all. It makes me believe there is something to the presence of this phrase. I want to gather the occurrences up and look at them as a group.
I think I will. (Parenthetically)
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