Verse 13: According To The Ephesians In The Book Of The Bible

It has been established that the previous two verse make up a stanza that directed at the Jewish audience. Verse 13 begins a new thought that is directed this time to Gentile believers. A clear indicator is the change in pronoun, from we to you as in “And you also were included…”. The Cambridge New Testament for Schools notes that later in 2:11 and 3:1 point to this Gentile inclusion. Consulting a biblical map, to find support outside of Ephesians, at least two passages are found to support the Gentile audience claim. The first, by the prophet Joel, which is the quotation that Peter addressed the crowd on the day of Pentecost as a sign of Jesus’s divinity (Joel 2.28–32; Acts 2.14–21). The second is by Jesus, promising the Holy Spirit (Lk 24.49; Jn 14.26; Acts 1.4–5).
According to the Blue Letter Bible website is found in the New Testament twenty-seven times. Twenty-two of those times, the bulk of its usage are in the book of Revelation. It is primarily used as a noun in the book of Revelation. The other non-Revelation usages, twice in the gospels and three times in Pauline letters, are used as a verb. In Greek “σφραγίζω” is transliterated as sphragizō. Phonetically, if attempted to pronounce “sfrä-gē'-zō” or “sa frogs o” would get the closest.
The origin of the word is Babylonian and that it may have originally the word sphragís that occurs in Ex. 35:22 is the word for “bracelet.” As this verb has evolved, seal has developed both a figurative and literal sense. The word seal that is found in this passage is the same word for seal was used to describe the sealing of the tomb for Jesus (i.e. Mat27:66) and sealing of the pit that Satan falls into