is Christ Jesus; the end with God is for himseTo which is added another, and that is redemption; the author of which is Christ; the price, or procuring and meritorious cause of it is his blood; a branch of which
is Christ Jesus; the end with God is for himself, Eph 1:5, and which, in the next verse, is explained of the glory of his grace; to which grace, acceptance with him in Christ is owing; and which is another spiritual blessing, or a branch of election and predestination, Eph 1:6....
This points us back to verse 6 where Paul presented the Plan of the mystery. He’s continuing to talk about this mystery. The wordministercomes from the Greek worddiakonos. It is possible that the word has it’s origin in a similar Greek word,diakonis, which means “running through dus...
In Ephesians 5:3, Paul is saying more than just don’t do these things. Look at the next part of the verse. He says, let themnot even be named among you.In other words, don’t even talk about them. We’ll see more of this next week when we look at Ephesians 5:12, where Pau...
--The phrase (repeated in Ephesians 4:1; Philemon 1:9; 2Timothy 1:8) is dwelt upon with an emphasis, explained by St. Paul's conviction that "his bonds" tended to "the furtherance of the gospel"--not merely by exciting a sympathy which might open the heart to his words, but even...
p. 122 ff. For the use ofas a substantive, comp.;;; frequently met with in the classics and the LXX.; see Schleusner,Neither(Theodoret, Bengel) nor the(Holzhausen) is meant. It is true that the wordis not elsewhere used by Paul; but here it is explained as a reminiscence from th...
The sinner who trusts in Christ has been raised up and seated "together in heavenly places" (as will be explained in Ephesians 2:1-10), and the believing Jews and Gentiles have been reconciled together and are placed into the Body of Christ, the Church (Ephesians 2:11-22). It is all...
The Apostle Paul explained in Ephesians 2:10 that humans are God's perfect actions/deeds in Jesus Christ so that humans can do good things following the purposes of the creator. From the statement above, the background for writing this article is to realize ourselves as human beings who are...
In addition, πνεύματος can be readily explained as harking back to Gal 5:22 (“the fruit of the Spirit”). Thus, on balance, φωτός appears to be autographic, giving rise to the reading πνεύματος. Ephesians 5:9 tn Grk“in.” The idea is that ...
” (NLT).I now appreciate and understand more deeply what this scripture is revealing. It is further explained inHebrews 12:3-5, “For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself,lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, ...