Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ephesians 3:3
The mystery — Of salvation by Christ alone, and that both to Jews and gentiles. As I wrote before — Namely, Ephesians 1:9; the very words of which passage he here repeats.
The mystery — Of salvation by Christ alone, and that both to Jews and gentiles. As I wrote before — Namely, Ephesians 1:9; the very words of which passage he here repeats.
Verse Ephesians 3:3. _BY REVELATION HE MADE KNOWN UNTO ME_] Instead of εγνωρισε, _he made known_, εγνωρισθη, _was made known_, is the reading of ABCD*FG, several others, both the _Syriac, Coptic,_ _Sl...
HOW THAT BY REVELATION - see the notes at Galatians 1:12. He refers to the revelation which was made to him when he was called to the apostolic office, that the gospel was to be preached to the Gentil...
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
A DIGRESSION. PAUL THE PRISONER AND HIS RELATION TO THE MYSTERY. A knowledge of Paul's story may be presumed among those who read this letter: they will have heard how he was entrusted with the missio...
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...
It is for this cause that I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for the sake of you Gentiles you must have heard of the share that God gave me in dispensing his grace to you, because God's secret was m...
REVELATION. App-106. HE. All the texts read "was". UNTO. to. MYSTERY. See Ephesians 5:32; 1 Timothy 3:16. App-193. AS. even as. WROTE AFORE. See Romans 15:4....
_by revelation_ Probably at or about the time of his conversion. Acts 26:17-18, indicates that the Lord then and there gave him the special commission, and it is likely that a period of special and di...
ὌΤΙ. R.V. ‘how that,’ dependent on ἠκούσατε. It may be ‘because,’ or ‘seeing that,’ defining the grace given. ΚΑΤᾺ�. St Paul was certain that the knowledge of the truth which he preached had come to h...
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.
ΚΑΤΆ (G2596) с _асс._ согласно. Используется в наречном значении: "посредством откровения" выражает способ познания (Meyer), ΆΠΟΚΆΛΥΨΙΣ (G602) открытие, проявление, откровение, ΈΓΝΩΡΊΣΘΗ _aor. ind....
THE MYSTERY (_AS I WROTE AFORE,_ &C.— Though St. Peter was by a vision from God sent to Cornelius, a Gentile, Acts 10 yet we do not find that this purpose of God's calling the Gentiles to be his peopl...
_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
The Mystery Defined...
How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, HE MADE KNOWN. 'Aleph (') A B C Delta G f g, Vulgate, read 'that by way of revelation was the mystery (name...
__ 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...
AFORE IN FEW WORDS] in the first two Chapter s...
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...
HOW THAT BY REVELATION HE MADE KNOWN UNTO ME THE MYSTERY. — The words “by revelation” are doubly emphatic. By revelation, not by the wisdom of man (as in 1 Corinthians 2:7): for “God hath revealed the...
Ephesians 3:1 contain two subjects closely blended together. The first (carrying on what is implied in the contrast drawn out in Ephesians 2) is the absolute newness of this dispensation to the Gentil...
CHAPTER 12 THE SECRET OF THE AGES Ephesians 3:1 Ephesians 3:2 are in form a parenthesis. They interrupt the prayer which appears to be commencing in the first verse and is not resumed until Ephesian...
These verses make a paragraph by themselves. Their main subject is the call of the Gentiles and Paul's Apostolic vocation in relation thereto. He reminds his readers of the mystery of that call, its r...
ὅτι κατὰ ἀποκάλυψιν ἐγνώρισέ μοι τὸ μυστήριον : _how that by way of revelation he made known_ (was made known) _to me the mystery_. The ὅτι is omitted by [207] [208] -lat., Ambros., etc., and is brack...
GENTILES SHARE THE “UNSPEAKABLE RICHES” Ephesians 3:1 _ Dispensation_ should be rendered, “stewardship.” We are God's trustees for men. To each of us is given some special phase of truth which we mus...
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...
God Made Known the Mystery Christ revealed both the plan of salvation and his plan for Paul to tell others about it (Galatians 1:11-17; Acts 26:15-18). Paul says he wrote a few words before about the...
The mystery, &c. By this mystery, he means what he has already mentioned in the last chapter and what he continues to speak of, to wit, that by the coming of Christ, and the preaching of his gospel, a...
(3) How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, (4) Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) (5) Which in other age...
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...
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,...
3._That by revelation. _Some might imagine, that, in attempting to discharge the office of an apostle, he had acted rashly, and was now paying the penalty of his rashness. It was this that made him so...
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...
HOW THAT BY REVELATION HE MADE KNOWN UNTO ME THE MYSTERY,.... Or "is made known unto me": so the Alexandrian copy, and some others, and the Vulgate Latin version. The Gospel, which is sometimes called...
How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Ver. 3. _As I wrote before in few_] _sc._ Ephesians 1:9; Ephesians 2:3, &c. Fulness of matter in fewness of w...
_For this cause_ That you may be so built up together, and made the temple of God, and his habitation through the Spirit; _I bow my knees_, &c., see Ephesians 3:14, with which the words are evidently...
THE MYSTERY; namely, that explained in verse Ephesians 3:6, that the Gentiles, through faith in Christ, were to be partakers of his salvation on equal terms with the Jews, and without the observance o...
HOW THAT BY REVELATION HE MADE KNOWN UNTO ME THE MYSTERY, (AS I WROTE AFORE IN A FEW WORDS,...
THE MINISTRY OF PAUL FOR THE EDIFICATION OF THE CHURCH. The revelation of knowledge to Paul:...
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...
AFORE: Or, a little before...
“HOW THAT BY REVELATION WAS MADE KNOWN UNTO ME THE MYSTERY, AS. WROTE BEFORE IN FEW WORDS” “By revelation”: “Modern theologians have argued much over whether Paul derived his thinking from Greek phil...
1-7 For having preached the doctrine of truth, the apostle was a prisoner, but a prisoner of Jesus Christ; the object of special protection and care, while thus suffering for him. All the gracious of...
BY REVELATION; not by man, but immediately, ACTS 9:15 GALATIANS 1:12. HE MADE KNOWN UNTO ME THE MYSTERY; viz. of calling the Gentiles to salvation by faith in Christ, without the works of the law, EPH...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I Rightly, then, the apostle says that it was by revelation that he knew the mystery: "As I wrote afore in few words, according as ye are able to understand my kno...
Ephesians 3:3 that G3754 by G2596 revelation G602 known G1107 (G5656) me G3427 mystery G3466 as G2531 briefly...
Ephesians 3:3. THAT BY (lit., ‘according to') REVELATION THE MYSTERY WAS MADE KNOWN TO ME. The best authorities support the passive form. This verse explains the substance of what they heard, hence of...
1. _Paul's Office as Apostle to the Gentiles._ In view of the great privilege detailed in chap. Ephesians 2:19-22, culminating in Ephesians 2:22, the Apostle begins to speak of his prayer on behalf of...
BY REVELATION (κατα αποκαλυψιν). Not essentially different from δι' αποκαλυψεως (Galatians 1:12). This was Paul's qualification for preaching "the mystery" (το μυστηριον. See Ephesians 1:9).AS I WR...
MYSTERY (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 13:11). _...
Ephesians 3:1. The Grace Given to Paul. The enthusiasm with which the Apostle speaks of preaching the Gospel to the heathen is contagious. His words burn on the page, and our hearts take fire as we r...
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...
HIS SECRET PLAN. To Paul, a secret or mystery is something hidden until the time comes for it to be revealed. Compare 1 Corinthians 2:6-10. I HAVE WRITTEN BRIEFLY. _Johnson_ thinks Paul means what he...
_How that by revelation He made known unto me the mystery._ REVELATION OF GOD’S MYSTERY 1. Those whom God sends, He also teaches. 2. We have by nature a veil before our eyes, that we cannot see spi...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 3:1 Revelation of the Gospel Mystery. Paul explains his calling and ministry as an apostle to the Gentiles. This assured his Gentile readers that their inheritance in Chris...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 3:3 MYSTERY. See note on Col. 1:26–27. This mystery is now revealed: Christ has come to unify Jews and Gentiles in one body through the gospel (see...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 3:1. THE PRISONER OF JESUS CHRIST may be regarded as “the prisoner whom the Lord has bound” (so Winer and Meyer), or as “a prisoner belonging to Christ,” or...
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 Corinthians 2:10; 1 Corinthians 2:9; Acts 22:17; Acts 22:21; Acts