Commentary on Ephesians 1:1

A New Post on My Ephesians Revealed Blog

The word "apostle" literally means "sent one" and although it can be used in a political sense, it's use in the New Testament is more geared toward the Jewish religious sense. If there was a prominent Rabbi, he sometimes would send out some of his students as apostles to teach others the teachings he had taught them. This makes sense when we see Jesus pick 12 apostles in the Gospels to carry on his teachings. False teachers in Ephesus were saying Paul was not an apostle of Christ like the other apostles but had made himself one by his own will.

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