Chosen to the Praise of His Glory

Ephesians 1:3–14 may be the most fought-over paragraph in the New Testament, and the fight has cost us the song. In the Greek it's a single 202-word sentence built on one verb: He chose. Paul, a Pharisee who had prayed the Psalms his whole life, reaches for the berakah, the extended blessing that closes each book of the Psalter, and pours into it...