Ephesians
The Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians, usually referred to
simply as Ephesians, is the tenth book of the New Testament.
Its authorship has traditionally been credited to Paul, but it
is now widely accepted by critical scholarship to be "deutero-
Pauline," that is, written in Paul's name by a later author
strongly influenced by Paul's thought.[1]...
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LITERATURE
I. Authenticity.
1. External Evidence:
None of the epistles which are ascribed to Paul have a
stronger chain of evidence to their early and continued use
than that which we know as the Epistle to the Ephesians.
Leaving for the moment the question of the relation of Eph
to other New Testament writings, we find that it not only ...
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was written by the apostle St. Paul during his first captivity
at Rome, Ac 28:16 apparently immediately after he had written
the Epistle to the Colossians [COLOSSIANS, EPISTLE TO], and
during that period (perhaps the early part of A.D. 62) when
his imprisonment had not assumed the severer character which
seems to have marked its close. This ep...
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was written by Paul at Rome about the same time as that to
the
Colossians, which in many points it resembles.
Contents of. The Epistle to the Colossians is mainly
polemical, designed to refute certain theosophic
errors that had
crept into the church there. That to the Ephesians
does not seem
to have originated in any special circumstances, ...
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By Paul, as Ephesians 1:1; Ephesians 3:1 prove. So Irenaeus,
Haer. 5:2-3; 1:8, 5; Clemens Alex., Strom. 4:65, Paed. 1:8;
Origen, Celsus 4:211. Quoted by Valentinus A.D. 120,
Ephesians 3:14-18, as we know from Hippolytus, Refut.
Haeres., p. 193. Polycarp, Epistle to Phil., 12, witnesses
to its canonicity. So Tertullian, Adv. Marcion, 5:17,
Ign...
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