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Originally Posted by OBW
Great passage [Ephesians 1:18-23]. How does it relate to the discussion? What question or issue does it address or solve? Is it that the word "calling" is in it? If so, how does this use of the word relate to Matthew 28 in terms of the content of the commission there relative to the calling here? Are we presuming that our "calling" is so narrow, or the great commission so broad that everything is generically talking about everything?
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The passage makes it very clear that when Jesus said "all authority is given to me, go ye, therefore"
That this authority is given unto the church, not unto the apostles. These verses in Ephesians prove that the "ye" in Matthew refers to the corporate Body of Christ, the church.