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LIBERTY UNIVERSITY JOHN W. RAWLINGS SCHOOL OF DIVINITY Literary Context Assignment Submitted to Professor Steven Waechter in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of NGRK 505-D02 Greek Language Tools by Joshua Arlaus Nov 5th, 2023 1

Literary Context Ephesians 2:1-10 was written by the Apostle Paul after the death of Jesus Christ to educate, reaffirm, and strengthen the faith of the Ephesian believers. This passage is part of an epistle or letter that was written to the Ephesian church in Ephesus. Ephesus was a coastal city in Asia Minor that is now considered modern day Turkey. This is just one of the many epistles that Paul had written to help strengthen the children of God that needed it most in the surrounding areas because of their many habitual pagan practices. In this passage Paul reminds the Ephesians to stay focused on the teachings of Christ and resist the evil ways of their Roman and pagan environments by stating, “And you were dead in your offenses and sins, in which you previously walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all previously lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our wrongdoings, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the boundless riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace, you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.” Both this passage and this entire epistle tie into the connecting message found through out the New Testament to recognize and turn from our sins so that we can follow Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior who was sent to die for our sins and to show us the way to true eternal life by 2

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