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Originally Posted by YP0534
I would still contend that the reference here [Eph 5:25] was indeed to just one assembly but simultaneously as to, not "all believers" per se, but all assemblies.
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I think I see your point. Christ loved the Ephesian assembly and gave Himself up for her, and by extension the assemblies elsewhere as well.
And as to your comment that the focus on the universal is to the detriment of the local, I agree. When we end up quarantining the Ephesian assembly, among many others, for the sake of "the church", I think we need to reexamine our interpretational hermeneutic.