Ephesians
Author: Paul
Paul always started off his epistles with his name.
Confirmed by Eusebius in Book 3, Chapter 25, Verse 2, of Ecclesiastical History.
Date: About 62 A.D.
Language: Greek
Place: While imprisoned in Rome (J.B. Phillips)
Purpose: To encourage the believers in Christ.
What kind of book?: Epistle, (a letter to a group), to followers of Jesus.
Reflection: Some say Paul did not write this letter, yet he even states "I, Paul" in the middle of the letter at the start of Chapter 3. And the "household code" seems like just the kind of thing Paul would put in a letter to Christians whose roots were the paternal Jewish culture, yet who were surrounded by Gentiles who were decimating the institution of the family.
Hunter Irvine
(1) J.B. Phillips, Letters to Young Churches (New York: The Macmillian Company, 1947), 100.
