Ephesians 6:10-23
But that you also may know about my circumstances, how I am doing, Tychicus … will make everything known to you. (v. 21) This verse, together with Paul’s prisoner comment in verse 20 strongly suggests that Paul wrote Ephesians at the same time that he wrote Colossians and Philemon (see Colossians 4:7-9).
I had never known that Paul got his “armor of God” material from Isaiah. See Isaiah 11:5 (v. 14a), Isaiah 52:7 (v. 14b, 15), and Isaiah 59:17 (v. 17) where Paul has four of those pieces of armor directly from Isaiah. I can’t imagine that Paul had Isaiah scrolls with him (like we have the Internet), but it’s clear to me that he really knew his Old Testament scriptures!
Slava Bohu!
Didn’t know that about Isaiah and the armor. How many times have we read through the Bible? Haha.