Ephesians 4:1-6

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This paper explains that the main intent of Ephesians 4.1-6, the Pauline epistle, is to stress the urge for absolute unity as the achievement of divine harmony among the believers. Through the beginning of the Epistle, the author relates, the holy church is urged to join the Trinity by endeavoring to remove the obstacles between men and uniting all the people in God. The epistle is especially significant for the modern world in which division rather than unity thrives, the author believes, because people should be able to share the same vision of the meaning of life as expressed by the Ephesians 4: 1-6.

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"The meekness to which the people are urged here is however not so much that towards God but rather that towards the other men, as a necessary principle for harmony among all people. Such a virtue is naturally accompanied by patience or suffering. The principal role of these essential virtues is to obliterate the differences among people and ensure the absolute unity that the apostle urges the people to embrace. Men have to be ready to love each other with meekness, to be patient and forbearing so as to be able to achieve the unity in the body of Christ."

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