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Ephesians 1:9
having made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure, which He hath purposed in Himself;
having made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure, which He hath purposed in Himself;
Verse 9. _HAVING MADE KNOWN UNTO US THE MYSTERY_] That the Gentiles should ever be received into the Church of God, and have all the privileges of the Jews, without being obliged to submit to circumc...
HAVING MADE KNOWN TO US THE MYSTERY OF HIS WILL - The word “mystery” (μυστήριον mustērion) means literally something into which one must be “initiated” before it is fully known (from μυέω _mueō_,...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE MASTERWORK OF GOD (1-3) 1. The Godhead at Work CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Ephesians 1:1)_ 2. The great doxology (Ephesians 1:3) 3. The work of the Father ...
A PARAGRAPH OF PRAISE. God, who is also the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is thanked for the blessings embracing every form of spiritual riches bestowed through their mystical relationship to Chris...
This happened because he made known to us the once hidden but now revealed secret of his will, for so it was his good pleasure to do. The secret was a purpose which he formed in his own mind before ti...
This is a letter from Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, to God's consecrated people who live in Ephesus and who are faithful in Jesus Christ. Grace be to you and peace from Go...
THE PURPOSE OF GOD (Ephesians 1:1-14)...
HAVING MADE KNOWN. Greek. _gnorizo._ As in Ephesians 3:3.Philippians 1:1; Philippians 1:22 (wot). Compare App-132. UNTO. to. MYSTERY. See App-193. HATH. Omit. purposed
Ascription of Praise, in view of the Election and Redemption of the Saints 3. _Blessed_be _the God_, &c. The same Benediction occurs (verbatim in the Greek, nearly so in A. V.), 2 Corinthians 1:3; 1 P...
_Having made known_ An aorist participle. The time-reference is to the actual revelation of the Gospel. Cp. e.g. Romans 3:21; Romans 16:25-26; 2 Timothy 1:10. And see last note. _unto us_ the believin...
ΓΝΩΡΊΣΑΣ ἩΜΙ͂Ν Κ.Τ.Λ., ‘by making known to us the secret of His will.’ The communication of this knowledge of the ultimate purpose of God, as a consequence of the favour that God has towards us, is th...
Ephesians 1:3-14. AN ASCRIPTION OF BLESSING TO GOD The Epistle opens with an act of adoration in view of the eternal purpose of God now made known to men. The stages in the revelation of that purpose...
1–14. The title in its earliest form is simplest: πρὸς Ἐφεσίους (אABK); with ἄρχεται prefixed (DEFG). The fuller title (τοῦ ἁγίου� L) Παύλου ἐπιστολὴ πρὸς Ἐφεσίους occurs in LP....
ΓΝΩΡΊΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. (conymcme.)_ от ΓΝΩΡΊΖΩ (G184) открывать. _Aor._ описывает одновременное действие (GGBB, 625; VA, 382-85). ΠΡΟΈΘΕΤΟ _aor. med. (dep.) ind. от_ ΠΡΟΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G4388) класть перед...
DISCOURSE: 2092 THANKS TO GOD FOR HIS SOVEREIGN GRACE AND MERCY Ephesians 1:3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly plac...
THE MYSTERY OF HIS WILL,— St. Paul's so often terming God's purpose of calling the Gentiles _a mystery,_ and so emphatically declaring it to be _concealed from ages,_ and particularly revealed _to him...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 1:1-14) Greeting; Ephesians 1:1-2. 1. By Paul. Ephesians 1:1. 2. To the saints at Ephesus. 3. To the faithful in Christ Jesus....
(1:9-10) Paul is using the plural here ("He made known to us"), in order that we might all personally identify with what he is saying. It is specifically true, however, that Paul was the individual to...
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: Which He 'made to abound toward us' (), in that He made known to us-namely, expe...
1 The title "Christ Jesus" is the token of His exaltation; "Jesus Christ" refers us to His humiliation. "Christ Jesus" is used by Paul, especially in his later ministries. The words "in Ephesus" seem...
THANKSGIVING FOR BLESSINGS AND PRAYER FOR WISDOM 1, 2. The salutation. I. In the Salutations to the Colossians and to Philemon, written at the same time, 'Timothy the brother' is coupled with St. Paul...
MYSTERY] In the NT. this means a secret that has been revealed; a favourite word with St. Paul (Ephesians 3:3; Ephesians 3:9; Ephesians 5:32;...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ ABOUT THIS LETTER The *apostle Paul wrote this letter when he was in a prison in Rome. He wrote it to people i...
[1. Introduction to the Epistle (Ephesians 1:1). (1) SALUTATION (Ephesians 1:1). (2) THANKSGIVING TO GOD FOR — (_a_) _The election of the whole Church before the world began, by the predestinating...
HAVING MADE KNOWN UNTO US THE MYSTERY OF HIS WILL. — In the same connection we read in 1 Corinthians 2:7, “we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery.” The word “mystery” properly signifies a thing which...
CHAPTER 3 THE BESTOWMENT OF GRACE Ephesians 1:6 THE blessedness of men in Christ is not matter of purpose only, but of reality and experience. With the word grace in the middle of the sixth verse th...
CHAPTER 2 THE ETERNAL PURPOSE Ephesians 1:3 WE enter this epistle through magnificent gateway. The introductory Act of Praise, extending from verse 3 to 14, Ephesians 1:3 is one of the most sublime...
γνωρίσας ἡμῖν : _having made known unto us_. Better, “in that He made known unto us”. As in Ephesians 1:5 the aor. part, is _modal_, not _temporal_, expressing an act not conceived as prior to that in...
OUR RICHES IN CHRIST Ephesians 1:1 This has been called the “Epistle of _In-ness,_ ”because it is so full of the preposition _in. Saints_ are flesh and blood like ourselves, and _we_ may be saints. T...
The theme of this letter is pre-eminently of the Church as the medium for the accomplishment of the divine purpose. Those addressed are described as "saints," and as "the faithful in Christ Jesus." Th...
Redeemed A redemption price is paid to buy something back. As Lipscomb says, in this case it is to rescue from bondage to the devil. It is in Christ and through his blood particularly, that we find re...
Having made known unto us the (m) mystery of his will, (13) according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: (m) For unless the Lord had opened to us that mystery, we could never hav...
That he might make known to us, and to all men, the mystery of his will and pleasure in establishing his new law, of calling all Gentiles, as well as Jews, to believe in his Son, made man for us, in t...
(8) Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; (9) Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: In those ver...
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 Chosen I. INTRODUCTION A. A Little History! 1. Written approx. 61 AD by the Apostle Paul during his Roman imprisonment. 2. There are several indications that this was a "circular" letter writt...
9._Having made known to us the mystery of his will. _Some were alarmed at the novelty of his doctrine. With a view to such persons, he very properly denominates it a _mystery of the divine will, _and...
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ, having chosen us in Him. Chapter 1 unfolds (Ephesians 1:4-7) these blessings,...
HAVING MADE KNOWN UNTO US THE MYSTERY OF HIS WILL,.... The Gospel, which is a mystery, a hidden mystery, the mystery of God and of Christ, and the mystery of the Gospel; the several doctrines of it ar...
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: Ver. 9. _The mystery of his will_] That is, the gospel, a mystery both to men, 1 C...
_Having made known to us_ By his Word and Spirit; _the mystery of his will_ The gracious scheme of salvation by faith, the appointment of which depended on his sovereign will alone; termed _a mystery_...
THE MYSTERY; that which is explained in verse Ephesians 1:10. Men have no correct views of salvation through faith in Christ, except as God reveals it to them; and no disposition to believe on him exc...
SALUTATION (vs.1-2) As an apostle of Jesus Christ, Paul writes this epistle as an authoritative communication from God. Indeed, his apostleship is "by the will of God." Nothing of his own or of any...
CHAPTER 1 The author of this letter is ___________. He is an apostle. The word apostle means ____________________. He states that he is not an apostle by his own choice. He is an apostle by the will o...
“making known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him” “MAKING KNOWN UNTO US”: God has shared more than "forgiveness" with Christians. God has revealed...
9-14 Blessings were made known to believers, by the Lord's showing to them the mystery of his sovereign will, and the method of redemption and salvation. But these must have been for ever hidden from...
HAVING MADE KNOWN UNTO US; having revealed to us outwardly by the preaching of the gospel; inwardly, by the illumination of the Spirit. THE MYSTERY OF HIS WILL; the whole doctrine of grace and salvati...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V ) "all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth,"[761] Tertullian On Monogamy The apostle, too, writing to the Ephesians, says that God "h...
Ephesians 1:9 known G1107 (G5660) us G2254 mystery G3466 His G846 will G2307 to G2596 His G846 pleasure...
‘Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him, unto a stewardship (regulation of an estate) of the fullness of times, to sum up all things i...
I. _Praise for Spiritual Blessings in Christ._ Ephesians 1:3-14 form but one sentence, so heaped up in thought and so involved in construction as to well-nigh baffle all attempts at exact analysis. Th...
I. THE CHURCH CHOSEN IN CHRIST, THE HEAD OF THE BODY. This chapter is made up of two parts: the _first_ (Ephesians 1:3-14), an ascription of praise for spiritual blessings in Christ; the _second_ (Eph...
Ephesians 1:9. HAVING MADE KNOWN TO US. This explains what precedes. Ellicott: ‘in making known to us'; Alford: ‘in that He made known.' Hence this takes place at the same time with the causing to abo...
THE MYSTERY OF HIS WILL (το μυστηριον του θεληματος αυτου). Once hidden, now revealed as in Colossians 1:26 which see. See also Colossians 2:3.WHICH HE PURPOSED (ην προεθετο). Second aorist middle...
MYSTERY See (Romans 16:25); (Romans 16:26); (Ephesians 3:3). (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 13:11). _...
Ephesians 1:5 The Final Restoration of all Things. There are several passages in the New Testament and this is one of them which make it clear that the Divine mercy is ultimately to achieve a complet...
Ephesians 1:9 Christ the Justification of a Suffering World. Such words as these of St. Paul spring out of that first bewilderment of joy which belongs to the sense of discovery. Christ is still a ne...
Ephesians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,_ He was not made an apostle by man, neither did he take the office upon himself, but he was made an apostle by the will of God. E...
Ephesians 1:1. _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: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from...
Ephesians 1:1. _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: grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from...
Ephesians 1:1. _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: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from...
We frequently read this chapter and the whole of this Epistle because it has been well remarked that the Epistle to the Ephesians is a body of divinity in miniature. Here all the great doctrines of th...
The Epistle to the Ephesians is a complete Body of Divinity. In the first chapter you have the doctrines of the gospel; in the next, you have the experience of the Christians; and before the Epistle i...
In this chapter, we see what Paul, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, has to say about the possessions and privileges of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 1:1. Paul, an apo...
CONTENTS: Believer's position in grace. The prayer for knowledge and power. CHARACTERS: Christ, God, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The believer is vitally united to Jesus Christ by the indwelling S...
Ephesians 1:4. _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._ What words of consolation! The full soul of t...
AND MADE KNOWN TO US. "God made this VISION OF THE AGES known to us apostles by his Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:10), and through us to you! God's secret is known by all who have been made God's children t...
_Having made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself._ THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL I. The sovereign grace of God in making known to us t...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 1:9 In Scripture, MYSTERY refers to the revealing of something previously hidden (see note on Col. 1:26–27). The mystery of God’s will, now revealed in Christ
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 1:3 In the original Greek, this section is one long, elegant sentence. Paul shows that the triune God began and completed reconciliation and redemption of the world for the...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 1:1 Introduction. Paul greets the believers in Ephesus (vv. Ephesians 1:1) and offers praise to God (vv....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 1:3. BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER.—The Hebrew form for “hallowing the Name” was, “The Holy One, blessed be He.” The Prayer Book version of Psalm c. gives, “...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 1:1, EPHESIANS 1:2 ADDRESS AND SALUTATION. EPHESIANS 1:1...
Let's turn in our Bibles to Ephesians. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God (Ephesians 1:1), Now, if you were writing this epistle, take out the name Paul, and insert your name and the...
1 Corinthians 2:10; 1 Timothy 3:16; 2 Timothy 1:9; Acts 13:48; Ac
Having made known. The participle is explanatory of which He made to abound, etc. : in that He made known. The mystery of His will. For mystery, see on Romans 11:25; Colossians 1:26. Another key - wor...
CHRIST THE ALL IN ALL Ephesians 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We cannot call Ephesians the Epistle of Paul. It was written by the Holy Ghost through Paul. The Holy Ghost came to take the things of Christ,...
Having made known to us — By his word and by his Spirit. The mystery of his will — The gracious scheme of salvation by faith, which depends on his own sovereign will alone. This was but darkly discove...