Ephesians and Saints

A New Post on My Ephesians Revealed Blog

The word often translated as "saints" literally means "holy ones" or further yet "set apart ones". There were different reasons that one might become a holy one. Israel was set apart from the world as God's nation and so they were all considered "holy ones". Those who were set apart for ministering to God were called "holy ones" and so angels were referred to as "holy ones" as well as priests (Ezekiel 44:11, Psalm 16:3, Maccabees 7:17).

The concern during the time of Paul's letter to the Ephesians was, who would be considered "holy ones" when the Christ in the Flesh came? False teachers in Ephesus were saying that certain categories of people would not be holy ones:

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