That you may be filled unto all the fulness of God; i.e. that as God is full of love and charity for all, so may you in an inferior degree, according as you are capable, be filled with charity. (Witham)
EPHESIANS 3:19 plhrwqh/te eivj pa/n to. plh,rwma tou/ qeou/ {A} Instead of plhrwqh/te eivj pa/n to. plh,rwma tou/ qeou/, which is amply attested by good representatives of both the Alexandrian and th...
Verse 19. _TO KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST, WHICH PASSETH KNOWLEDGE_] It is only by the _love of Christ_ that we can know the _love of God_: the love of God to man induced him to give Christ for his redem...
AND TO KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST - The love of Christ toward us; the immensity of redeeming love. It is not merely the love which he showed for the Gentiles in calling them into his kingdom, which is he...
3. THE MYSTERY MADE KNOWN Chapter S 2:11-3:21 _ 1. The condition of the Gentiles (Ephesians 2:11)_ 2. But now in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:13) 3. The new and great relationship (Ephesians 2
THE WRITER'S PRAYER FOR HIS READERS. Kneeling, in a very ecstasy of prayer, before the Father who is the source and prototype of all fatherly relationship whether on earth or in heaven, the writer pra...
It is for this cause that I bow my knees in prayer before the Father, of whose fatherhood all heavenly and earthly fatherhood is a copy, that, according to the wealth of his glory. he may grant to you...
PRISON AND PRIVILEGES (Ephesians 3:1-13) To understand the connection of thought in this passage it has to be noted that Ephesians 3:2-13 are one long parenthesis. The for this cause of Ephesians 3:1...
AND. Even. KNOW. App-132. KNOWLEDGE. App-132. MIGHT. may. FILLED. See Ephesians 1:23. App-125. FULNESS. Greek. _pleroma._ See Ephesians 1:23....
The main theme resumed: prayer for the Indwelling of Christ 14. _For this cause_ The same phrase as that of Ephesians 3:1. See note there. Here the broken connexion is resumed. The "permanent habitati...
_And to know_ An aorist verb, expressing a new and decisive development of knowledge, knowledge of the spiritual kind, the intuition of the regenerate spirit, realized in its own responsive adoring lo...
ΓΝΩ͂ΝΑΊ ΤΕ. We pass now to the second method of approach, the personal appropriation of the universal Truth. γινώσκειν has characteristically in St Paul, as in the Bible generally, a personal object,...
Ephesians 2:15. ΚΑΤΑΡΓΉΣΑΣ אAB &c. καταρτίσας D*. Ephesians 2:21. ΠΑ͂ΣΑ ΟἸΚΟΔΟΜῊ א*BDG _al_ Clem Orig Chrys. πᾶσα ἡ οἰκ. א*ACP _al mult_. Ephesians 3:5. Τ. ἉΓΊΟΙΣ�. ΠΡΟΦΉΤΑΙΣ אAC &c.
ΓΝΏΝΑΊ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать, ΎΠΕΡΒΆΛΛΟΥΣΑΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΎΠΕΡΒΆΛΛΩ (G5235) оставлять позади, превосходить, ΠΛΗΡΩΘΉΤΕ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΠΛΗΡΌΩ (G4137) наполнять....
DISCOURSE: 2104 PRAYER THE MEANS OF THE RICHEST BLESSINGS Ephesians 3:14. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,...
AND TO KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST,— There seems to be no reason why we should confine the interpretation of this text merely to the love of Christ in calling the Gentiles. Well may we recollect, on this...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 3:1-19) E. Paul's prayer for our strengthening. Ephesians 3:1-19. 1. Beginning of prayer. Ephesians 3:1. 2. Parenthetical Paul's mini
(3:19) Where verse 18 presents knowledge as fact, verse 19 presents knowledge as tried experientially. "Know" and "knowledge" are both from ginosko and speak of experiential information. "Love" is aga...
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. PASSETH - surpasseth. The paradox, "to know ... which passeth knowledge," implies that b...
__ Summary of the Present Grace 2 The present secret administration of which there is no hint in any Scriptures before this epistle was penned, consists essentially of three separate items, all of w...
REASONS FOR RENEWING THE PRAYER FOR WISDOM 1-13. A digression, which, however, could not be spared. As in Ephesians 1:15, he begins to speak of himself, and this time he explains his unique interest i...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 3 3:1-13 ~ GOD HAS MADE HIS SECRET KNOWN 3:1-6 ~ GOD MADE HIS SECRET KNOWN TO PAUL V1 For this reason...
TO KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST, WHICH PASSETH KNOWLEDGE. — The intentional paradox of this expression is weakened if (with many interpretations) we suppose that there is opposition in kind between knowled...
CHAPTER 15 KNOWING THE UNKNOWABLE Ephesians 3:17 WE were compelled to pause before reaching the end of the apostle's comprehensive prayer. But we must not let slip the thread of its connection. Ephe...
γνῶναί τε τὴν ὑπερβάλλουσαν τῆς γνώσεως ἀγάπην τοῦ Χριστοῦ : _and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge_. Literally, “the knowledge-surpassing love of Christ”. The gen. γνώσεως is due to...
A paragraph containing an earnest prayer for the inward strengthening of the readers, the presence of Christ in them, their enlargement in the knowledge of the love of Christ, and the realisation in t...
THE GREATEST OF ALL DESIRES Ephesians 3:14 The kernel of this prayer is in the clause that Christ may make His home in the believer's heart through faith. The previous petitions lead up to this. Note...
God's dwelling in the Church is not finality. It is equipment for the fulfillment of the divine purpose. The apostle claims a stewardship in the mystery of the Church, and declares the astounding fact...
The Desired Results Further, Paul wanted them to completely understand, in all its measures, something, or some things. It may be the love spoken of in the previous verse, or the mystery spoken of ear...
And to know the (k) love of Christ, which (l) passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the (m) fulness of God. (k) Which God has shown us in Christ. (l) Which surpasses all the capacity o...
(13) Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. (14) В¶ For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, (15) Of whom the whole family...
In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
_THE LOVE OF CHRIST_ ‘To know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge.’ Ephesians 3:19 Well does St. Paul speak of ‘the love which passeth knowledge.’ We may go on to know more of it, but we can...
Equality in Christ I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week, in Chapter 2 of Ephesians we took a look at the Lord's "Never Ending Grace." 1. And although the Apostle Paul was speaking specifically to Gentiles,...
19._And to know the love of Christ. _By those dimensions Paul means nothing else than the love of Christ, of which he speaks afterwards. The meaning is, that he who _knows _it fully and perfectly is i...
The whole of Chapter 3 is a parenthesis unfolding the mystery; and presenting at the same time, in the prayer that concludes it, the second character of God set before us at the beginning of the epist...
AND TO KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST, WHICH PASSETH KNOWLEDGE,.... The love of Christ to his own, to his church and people, is special and peculiar; free and Sovereign; as early as his Father's love, and is...
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Ver. 19. _With, all the fulness of God_] That is, of Christ's diffusive fulness, in whom...
_That Christ may dwell in your hearts_ May be always present with you, and may reside continually in you, by his purifying and comforting influences, so as to direct your judgment, engross your affect...
WITH ALL THE FULNESS OF GOD; more literally, unto all the fulness of God. So filled with his light, truth, love, holiness, and bliss, as to become in your measure like him, and shine in the glory of h...
The apostle's petition for the Church, which includes an exhortation:...
AND TO KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST, WHICH PASSETH KNOWLEDGE, THAT YE MIGHT BE FILLED WITH ALL THE FULLNESS OF GOD. The apostle now resumes the thread of his discourse, which he interrupted after v. 1 to s...
THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST REVEALED (vs.1-13) "For this cause" -- because of the marvelous greatness of the work God had accomplished for and in His saints -- Paul preached "the unsearchable riches of Chr...
CHAPTER 3 Paul describes himself as: The ____________ of Jesus Christ For the ____________. We are living in the _________________ of the grace of God. A dispensation is a period of _______ given...
“AND TO KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST WHICH PASSETH KNOWLEDGE, THAT YE MAY BE FILLED UNTO ALL THE FULNESS OF GOD” “And to know the love of Christ”: “Paul wished for brethren to realize what it means to love...
13-19 The apostle seems to be more anxious lest the believers should be discouraged and faint upon his tribulations, than for what he himself had to bear. He asks for spiritual blessings, which are t...
AND TO KNOW, sensibly and experimentally to perceive in yourselves, THE LOVE OF CHRIST, WHICH PASSETH KNOWLEDGE; which, though it may in a greater degree than hitherto be known and experienced, yet ne...
Ephesians 3:19 G5037 know G1097 (G5629) love G26 Christ G5547 passes G5235 (G5723) knowledge G1108 that...
PAUL'S PRAYER FOR HIS READERS (3:14-21). ‘For this reason -.' Compare Ephesians 3:1 which begins in the same way. Does this mean that this is the continuation that he would have made had he not made a...
Enjoying the empowering of the Spirit and the indwelling of the risen Christ their very being will be rooted and grounded in love, for love is the basis of their salvation (John 3:16; Romans 5:8; 1 Jo...
_The Apostles Prayer for the Church_, _and the concluding Doxology_. As stated in the last section, the thought begun in Ephesians 3:1 is here resumed, and the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of th...
Ephesians 3:19. AND TO KNOW. The connective translated ‘and' is used to append a closely related thought; hence the object to be supplied in the previous clause is the same as that here expressed. ‘Kn...
AND TO KNOW (γνωνα τε). Second aorist active infinitive with εξισχυσητε.WHICH PASSETH KNOWLEDGE (την υπερβαλλουσαν της γνωσεως). Ablative case γνωσεως after υπερβαλλουσαν (from υπερβαλλω). All th...
Ephesians 3:14 Filled with all the Fulness of God. I. Perhaps it would be well to leave this phrase in its vague sublimity without any attempt to explain it as it stands. It appeals to the imaginatio...
Ephesians 3:16 Spiritual Strength. We may fasten upon five significant terms as keys by which we may unlock this Divine casket, so that its precious contents, the riches of the Father's glory, may b...
Ephesians 3:19 The Cross the Measure of Love. I. What is the language in which Christ reveals His love to us but His cross and Passion? The words, deeds, and sufferings of the Son of God are but one...
CONTENTS: Church, a mystery hidden in past ages. Prayer for inner fullness and knowledge. CHARACTERS: Christ, God, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The divine purpose to make of both Jew and Gentile a...
Ephesians 3:1. _Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ._ He was indeed the prisoner of Caesar, but a greater than Cæsar had said to him in the castle at Jerusalem, “Be of good cheer, Paul, for as thou has...
YES, MAY YOU. "I want you to come to know Christ's love, on which his church is built. You can know it, although it is true that in this world we can only know in part the infinite love of Christ! I w...
_For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named._ A PATTERN OF PRAYER The worldly proverb is, “Every man for himself and...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 3:14 Paul’s Prayer for Strength and Insight. Paul prays that his readers would be strong in their faith (vv. Ephesians 3:14). He concl
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 3:15. THE WHOLE FAMILY.—R.V. “every family.” The word for “family” is only found in the New Testament in St. Luke 2:4 and Acts 3:25; in one translated “linea...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 3:1 DIGRESSION ON THE ADMISSION OF THE GENTILES TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD....
Let's turn to the third chapter of Ephesians. For this cause [Paul said] I, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles (Ephesians 3:1), It is interesting that Paul was actually a prisoner of Rome,...
1 John 4:9; 2 Corinthians 5:14; 2 Peter 3:18; Colossians 1:10;...
To know [γ ν ω ν α ι]. Practically, through experience; while apprehend marks the knowledge as conception. Love of Christ. Christ's love to us. Human love to Christ could not be described in these te...
And to know — But the apostle corrects himself, and immediately observes, it cannot be fully known. This only we know, that the love of Christ surpasses all knowledge. That ye may be filled — Which is...