title: Ephesians (Ironside Expository Commentaries)
author:  H. A. Ironside 
description: H.A. Ironside (1876-1951) was an internationally acclaimed Bible teacher and preacher, as well as the author of more than sixty books. His writings include addresses or commentaries on the entire New Testament, all of the Old Testament prophetic books, and a great many volumes on other biblical topics. For eighteen of his fifty years of ministry, Dr. Ironside was pastor of the historic Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, Ill.
zlib_text: STORM OF IRON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  PROLOGUE
  
  THE ELECTRO-CANDLES in the astropaths' chamber were kept dim, though its
  occupants neither cared nor were aware of their surroundings, their eyes long
  since burned from their sockets. The aroma of sacred incense filled the
  chamber, the quiet hum of machinery and the scratching of a score of tonsured
  quill-servitors the only sounds.
  
  The servitors sat facing each other in two rows, hunched over gnarled
  lecterns, their ink-stained fingers darting across parchments as information
  poured into what remained of their minds and out through their calloused
  hands. Behind each servitor stood an angled, brass capsule, sparkling like a
  gleaming coffin. Golden wires trailed from each one's frosted surface and
  ribbed cabling snaked from their sides, running in long lines along the
  chamber's edge.
  
  A hunched figure, swathed in the red robes of the Adeptus Mechanicus with gold
  lettering stitched along the hem made his way slowly along the stone-flagged
  nave towards the 