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Ephesians 1
23 verses with commentary
Greeting
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
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<strong>[Verse 1:1 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses Apostolic authority and union with Christ. Key Greek terms include apostolos (ἀπόστολος), hagiois (ἁγίοις). <br><br>The theological focus is Divine calling, positional sanctification, mystical union, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phras...
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(1) **By the will of God.**—This phrase, used in 1Corinthians 1:1; 2Corinthians 1:1; Colossians 1:1; 2Timothy 1:1 (comp. the equivalent expression of 1Timothy 1:1), appears to be St. Paul’s ordinary designation of the source of his apostolic mission and authority; used whenever there was nothing peculiar in the occasion of the Epistle, or the circumstances of the Church to which it was addressed. ...
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**14. the third time--**See Introduction to the first Epistle. His second visit was probably a short one (1Co 16:7), and attended with humiliation through the scandalous conduct of some of his converts (compare 2Co 12:21; 2Co 2:1). It was probably paid during his three years' sojourn at Ephesus, from which he could pass so readily by sea to Corinth (compare 2Co 1:15, 16; 13:1, 2). The context here...
Read full commentary →Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
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<strong>[Verse 1:2 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses Divine blessing and Christ's deity. Key Greek terms include charis (χάρις), eirēnē (εἰρήνη). <br><br>The theological focus is Unmerited favor, shalom, high Christology, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ ...
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(2) **Grace be to you, and peace.**—On this, St. Paul’s all but invariable salutation in every Epistle (found also in the Epistles of St. Peter, 2 John, and Apocalypse), see Note on Romans 1:7.
(2 *a.*) In Ephesians 1:3-6, the first section of the Introduction, the Epistle ascends at once into “the heavenly places,” naturally catching therefrom the tone of adoration and thanksgiving. It dwells on ...
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**15. I will ... spend--**all I have.
**be spent--**all that I am. This is more than even natural parents do. They "lay up treasures for their children." But I spend not merely my treasures, but myself.
**for you--**Greek, "for your souls"; not for your mere bodies.
**the less I be loved--**Love rather descends than ascends [Bengel]. Love him as a true friend who seeks your good more than yo...
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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: places: or, things
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<strong>[Verse 1:3 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(3) It may be noted, as bearing on the question of the general or special character of this Epistle, that (with the single exception of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians, which may be looked upon as virtually a continuation of the First Epistle) all St. Paul’s Epistles addressed to particular churches pass at once from the salutation to refer to the particular circumstances, gifts, and needs o...
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**16. I did not burden you--**The "I" in the Greek is emphatic. A possible insinuation of the Corinthians is hereby anticipated and refuted: "But, you may say, granted that I did not burden you myself; nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you (in my net) with guile"; namely, made a gain of you by means of others (1Th 2:3).
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
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<strong>[Verse 1:4 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(4) **According as** (*i.e., inasmuch as*) **he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world.**—Again it should be, *He chose us for Himself. *The eternal election of God is inseparably connected with the blessing of the Spirit. This passage stands alone in St. Paul’s Epistles in its use of this word “chosen” in connection with God’s eternal purpose, “before the foundation of the world...
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17. Paul's reply: You know well I did not. My associates were as distinterested as myself. An important rule to all who would influence others for good.
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
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<strong>[Verse 1:5 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(5) **Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself.**—The idea of Election depends on the union of the sense of actual difference between men, as to privilege and spiritual life, with the conviction of God’s universal sovereignty. Hence, in all cases, it leads back to the idea of Predestination, that is, of the conception of the divine purpose in the mind of God...
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**18. I desired Titus--**namely, to go unto you. Not the mission mentioned 2Co 8:6, 17, 22; but a mission previous to this Epistle, probably that from which he had just returned announcing to Paul their penitence (2Co 7:6-16).
**a brother--**rather "OUR (literally, 'the') brother"; one well known to the Corinthians, and perhaps a Corinthian; probably one of the two mentioned in 2Co 8:18, 22.
*...
Read full commentary →To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
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<strong>[Verse 1:6 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(6) **To the praise of the glory of his grace.**—That is, for the acknowledgment by all God’s creatures of the gloriousness of His grace; or, in other words, for the acknowledgment that God’s essential glory is best manifested in His grace—that He “declares His almighty power most chiefly in showing mercy and pity.” So in Exodus 33:18-19, to the request, “Show me Thy glory,” the answer is, “I will...
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**19. Again--**The oldest manuscripts read, "This long time ye think that we are excusing ourselves unto you? (Nay). It is before God (as opposed to 'unto you') that we speak in Christ" (2Co 2:17). English Version Greek text was a correction from 2Co 3:1; 5:12.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
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<strong>[Verse 1:7 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(7) **In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins.**—This passage is identical in sense and expression with Colossians 1:14, except that the word here used for “sins” means, properly, “separate acts of transgression,” while the word there is the more general word for sin in the abstract. (In Ephesians 2:1, both are used.) In both passages we have united, as correspondent ...
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**20. For--**Assigning cause why they needed to be thus spoken to "for their edification"; namely, his fear that at his coming he should find them "not such as he would," and so he should be found by them "such as they would not" like, namely, severe in punishing misconduct.
**debates--**Greek, "strifes," "contentions."
**envyings--**The oldest manuscripts read "envying," singular.
**strifes...
Read full commentary →Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
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<strong>[Verse 1:8 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(8) **Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence.**—It should be, *which He made to overflow to us in all wisdom and prudence*—the word “overflow” having an emphasis which our word “abound” has lost, and signifying here that the richness of God’s grace not only fills the soul with the blessing of salvation, but overflows into the additional gifts of “all wisdom and prudence” in ...
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**21. my God--**his God, however trying the humiliation that was in store for him.
**will humble me--**The indicative implies that the supposition will actually be so. The faithful pastor is "humbled" at, and "bewails" the falls of his people, as though they were his own.
**sinned already--**before my last coming [Bengel], that is, before the second visit which he paid, and in which he had muc...
Read full commentary →Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
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<strong>[Verse 1:9 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(9) **Having made known unto us the mystery** **of** **his will.**—In the same connection we read in 1Corinthians 2:7, “we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery.” The word “mystery” properly signifies a thing which (see Ephesians 3:5; Colossians 1:27) “was hid from all ages, but is now made manifest.” So our Lord evidently uses it (in Matthew 13:11; Mark 4:11; Luke 8:10). For the rest, except in fo...
Read full commentary →That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: heaven: Gr. the heavens
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<strong>[Verse 1:10 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(10) **That in the dispensation of the fulness of times.**—The connection marked in our version seems certainly erroneous. The words should be connected with the previous verse, and translated thus: *which* *He purposed in Himself for administration* (or *disposal*)* of the fulness of the *(*appointed*)* seasons, to* *gather, *&c. We note (1) that the word “dispensation” is usually applied to the ...
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CHAPTER 13
2Co 13:1-14. He Threatens a Severe Proof of His Apostolic Authority, but Prefers They Would Spare Him the Necessity for It.
**1. This is the third time I am coming to you--**not merely preparing to come to you. This proves an intermediate visit between the two recorded in Ac 18:1; 20:2.
**In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established--**Quoted from De 19:1...
Read full commentary →In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
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<strong>[Verse 1:11 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(2 c.) Ephesians 1:11-14 form the third part of the Introduction, applying the general truth of election by God’s predestination in Christ, first to the original believers (the Jews), and then to the subsequent believers (the Gentiles).
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2. Rather, "I have already said (at my second visit), and tell you (now) beforehand, AS (I did) WHEN I WAS PRESENT THE SECOND TIME, SO also NOW in my absence (the oldest manuscripts omit the 'I write,' which here wrongly follows in English Version Greek text) to them which heretofore have sinned (namely, before my second visit, 2Co 12:21), and to all others (who have sinned since my second visit, ...
Read full commentary →That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. trusted: or, hoped
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<strong>[Verse 1:12 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(12) **That we . . . who first trusted in Christ.**—That the reference here is to the first Christians, in contradistinction to the Gentiles of the next verse, is clear. But the meaning of the phrase “who first hoped” (or, more properly, *who have hoped beforehand*) is less obvious. Our version seems to interpret it simply of “believing before” the Gentiles, *i.e., *of being the “first believers;”...
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**3. Since--**The reason why he will not spare: Since ye challenge me to give a "proof" that Christ speaks in me. It would be better if ye would "prove your own selves" (2Co 13:5). This disproves the assertion of some that Scripture nowhere asserts the infallibility of its writers when writing it.
**which--**"who" (Christ).
**is not weak--**in relation to you, by me and in this very Epistle, i...
Read full commentary →In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
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<strong>[Verse 1:13 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(13) **In whom ye also trusted . . . in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed.**—The insertion of the word “trusted” (suggested by the word “trusted” in the previous verse) is probably erroneous, nor is it easy to find any good substitute for it. It is far better to refer the whole to the one verb, “ye were sealed.” The irregularity of construction (arising from the addition to “hearing...
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**4. though--**omitted in some of the oldest manuscripts; then translate, "For He was even crucified," &c.
**through weakness--**Greek, "from weakness"; that is, His assumption of our weakness was the source, or necessary condition, from which the possibility of His crucifixion flowed (He 2:14; Php 2:7, 8).
**by--**Greek, "from"; "owing to."
**the power of God--**the Father (Ro 1:4; 6:4;...
Read full commentary →Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
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<strong>[Verse 1:14 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(14) **Which is the earnest of our inheritance.**—On the word “earnest” (*arrhabôn*)*, *a precious gift, as surety for a fuller gift hereafter, see 2Corinthians 1:22. The word “inheritance” has a correspondent meaning. It is a present possession (as in Acts 7:5), which shall be developed into a more precious future. “We are very members, incorporate in the mystical body of Christ, and also heirs t...
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**5. Examine--**Greek, "Try (make trial of) yourselves."
**prove your own selves--**This should be your first aim, rather than "seeking a proof of Christ speaking in me" (2Co 13:3).
**your own selves--**I need not speak much in proof of Christ being in me, your minister (2Co 13:3), for if ye try your own selves ye will see that Christ is also in you [Chrysostom], (Ro 8:10). Finding Christ dwel...
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Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
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<strong>[Verse 1:15 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(15) **After I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints.**—These words have an almost exact parallel in Colossians 1:4, addressed there to a church which St. Paul had not seen, and have been quoted in support of the belief that this Epistle cannot have been addressed, properly and solely, to the well-known Ephesian Church. They are not, however, decisive, for we have a s...
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**6. we ... not reprobates--**not unable to abide the proof to which ye put us (2Co 13:6). "I trust that" your own Christianity will be recognized by you (observe, "ye shall know," answers to "know your own selves," 2Co 13:5) as sufficient "proof" that ye are not reprobates, but that "Christ speaks in me," without needing a proof from me more trying to yourselves. If ye doubt my apostleship, ye mu...
Read full commentary →Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
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<strong>[Verse 1:16 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(16) **Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers.**—Almost all St. Paul’s Epistles are introduced by this union of thanksgiving and prayer, which is, indeed, characteristic of the right harmony of all Christian worship. (See Romans 1:8-9; Philippians 1:3-4; Colossians 1:3-4; 1Thessalonians 1:2-3; 2Timothy 1:3; Philemon 1:4.) In the Galatian Epistle the omission of both ...
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**7. I pray--**The oldest manuscripts read, "we pray."
**not that we should appear approved--**not to gain credit for ourselves, your ministers, by your Christian conduct; but for your good [Alford]. The antithesis to "reprobates" leads me to prefer explaining with Bengel, "We do not pray that we may appear approved," by restraining you when ye do evil; "but that ye should do what is right" (Eng...
Read full commentary →That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: in: or, for the acknowledgement
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<strong>[Verse 1:17 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(17) **The God of our Lord Jesus Christ.**—See John 20:17, “I ascend unto My Father and your Father; and to My God and your God.” It has been noted that, while on the cross, our Lord, in the cry, “My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” adopted the common human language of the Psalmist, He here, after His resurrection, distinguished emphatically between His peculiar relation to God the Father and that...
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8. Our apostolic power is given us that we may use it not against, but for the furtherance of, the truth. Where you are free from fault, there is no scope for its exercise: and this I desire. Far be it from me to use it against the innocent, merely in order to increase my own power (2Co 13:10).
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
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<strong>[Verse 1:18 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(18) **The eyes of your understanding.**—The true reading is *of your heart, *for which the words “of your understanding” have been substituted, so as to yield a simpler and easier expression. The heart is similarly spoken of in relation to spiritual perception in Romans 1:21; 1Corinthians 2:9; 1Corinthians 4:5; it signifies the inner man in his entirety; and the phrase here used seems to convey t...
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**9. are glad--**Greek, "rejoice."
**when we are weak--**having no occasion for displaying our power; and so seeming "weak," as being compassed with "infirmities" (2Co 10:10; 11:29, 30).
**ye ... strong--**"mighty" in faith and the fruits of the Spirit.
**and--**not in the oldest manuscripts.
**we wish--**Greek, "pray for."
**your perfection--**literally, "perfect restoration"; literally...
Read full commentary →And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, his mighty power: Gr. the might of his power
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<strong>[Verse 1:19 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(19) **According to the working of his mighty power.**—More correctly (see margin), *the working of the might of His strength.* The word “power” is a general word for force, which may be latent, and, in fact, often describes force which is latent, in contradistinction to the word here used for working or energy. St. Paul, therefore, adds that this power of God is not latent; it actually works “acc...
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**10. Therefore--**because I wish the "sharpness" to be in my letters rather than in deeds [Chrysostom].
**edification ... not to destruction--**for building up ... not for casting down. To "use sharpness" would seem to be casting down, rather than building up; therefore he prefers not to have to use it.
Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
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<strong>[Verse 1:20 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(20) **Which he wrought in Christ.**—The reality of the work of God upon us is insured by the reality of that work upon the true Son of Man, whose members we are, in His resurrection, His ascension, His exaltation over all things at the right hand of God, and His headship of the Church. It is notable that, while it is on the spiritual meaning of the resurrection of Christ that the chief stress is ...
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**11. farewell--**meaning in Greek also "rejoice"; thus in bidding farewell he returns to the point with which he set out, "we are helpers of your joy" (2Co 1:24; Php 4:4).
**Be perfect--**Become perfect by filling up what is lacking in your Christian character (Ep 4:13).
**be of good comfort--**(2Co 1:6; 7:8-13; 1Th 4:18).
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
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<strong>[Verse 1:21 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(21) **Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion.**—The words here used are intended to include all possible forms of power, corresponding to the exhaustive enumeration in Philippians 2:10, “of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth.” The words rendered “principality and power” (more properly signifying “government and the authority committed to it”)...
Read full commentary →And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
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<strong>[Verse 1:22 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(22) **And hath put all things under his feet.**—See 1Corinthians 15:25-28, where St. Paul deals with the quotation from Psalm 8:6, in application to our Lord’s Mediatorial kingdom. In this passage these words fill up the picture of our Lord’s transcendent dignity, by the declaration of the actual subjugation of all the powers of sin and death, rising up against Him, in the spiritual war which is ...
Read full commentary →Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
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<strong>[Verse 1:23 text would be quoted here]</strong> This verse in Ephesians chapter 1 addresses theological theme. Key Greek terms include to be determined. <br><br>The theological focus is doctrinal emphasis, demonstrating Paul's emphasis on the cosmic Christ and the church as His body/bride/temple. The phrase emphasizes union with Christ as the foundation of all spiritual blessings.
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(23) **The fulness of him that filleth all in all.**—The word *pleroma, “*fulness,” is used in a definite and almost technical sense in the Epistles of the Captivity, and especially in the Epistle to the Colossians, having clear reference to the speculations as to the Divine Nature and the emanations from it, already anticipating the future Gnosticism. The word itself is derived from a verb signif...
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14. The benediction which proves the doctrine of the Divine Trinity in unity. "The grace of Christ" comes first, for it is only by it we come to "the love of God" the Father (Joh 14:6). The variety in the order of Persons proves that "in this Trinity none is afore or after other" [Athanasian Creed].
**communion--**joint fellowship, or participation, in the same Holy Ghost, which joins in one cat...
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