At the end of this series of posts I’m going to present an account of God informed by and evidenced with the ESV text and Greek text (BGT) of Ephesians of BibleWorks 9.

Here is a fifth building block for this account which is based on Ephesians 1:22-23 and 2:1-7:

God subjected all things to Jesus and gave him as head over all things to the ekklesia, which is his body. They were dead in their trespasses and sins, but God being rich in mercy, because of His great love for them, made them and Paul alive together with Christ and raised them and Paul up with Christ and seated them and Paul with Christ in the heavenly places through Christ, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace through kindness to them and Paul through Christ Jesus.[1]

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[1] When it comes to the seating with Christ this might be explained in terms of being represented by Christ or in terms of the preparation of places that they will occupy in the future or as something yet to be done but spoken of as something that has already happened.