tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20238715.post115542999429232032..comments2023-03-04T16:28:43.504+00:00Comments on Methodist Bishop: A Happy, Healthy ChurchMETHODISTBISHOPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00792948847625892567noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20238715.post-1155993049132571952006-08-19T14:10:00.000+01:002006-08-19T14:10:00.000+01:00I don't know. Perhaps the letter was rediscovered ...I don't know. Perhaps the letter was rediscovered in its entirety by the person who published it. More likely, perhaps, given some of the content and the style, he recovered fragments of a missing letter and filled in the gaps. He certainly thought Paul was speaking to his generation as well as to the previous one.METHODISTBISHOPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00792948847625892567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20238715.post-1155507576095765772006-08-13T23:19:00.000+01:002006-08-13T23:19:00.000+01:00The Letter to the Ephesians was probably written a...<I>The Letter to the Ephesians was probably written a considerable time after the death of St Paul. In the meantime he had fallen out of favour and then regained his popularity. People were clamouring for more of his teaching and Christians of long-standing found themselves hunting through their lofts, packing cases and blanket chests, looking for some of St Paul's missing letters which had been circulated long ago around the young churches in his care and then discarded or forgotten.</I><BR/><BR/>So are you saying that it was written by someone else after Paul's death or that it was written by Paul and then forgotten for a couple of generations?Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04854543617806427302noreply@blogger.com