Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ephesians 4:4
There is one body — The universal church, all believers throughout the world. One Spirit, one Lord, one God and Father — The ever — blessed Trinity. One hope — Of heaven.
There is one body — The universal church, all believers throughout the world. One Spirit, one Lord, one God and Father — The ever — blessed Trinity. One hope — Of heaven.
Verse Ephesians 4:4. THERE IS _ONE BODY_] Viz. of Christ, which is his Church. _ONE SPIRIT_] The Holy Ghost, who animates this body. _ONE HOPE_] Of everlasting glory, to which glory ye have been cal...
THERE IS ONE BODY - One church - for so the word “body” means here - denoting the body of Christ; see the notes on Romans 12:5; compare notes on Ephesians 1:23. The meaning here is, that as there is r...
II. THE PRACTICAL MANIFESTATION IN THE LIFE OF THE BELIEVER (4-6) 1. Walking worthy of the Calling CHAPTER 4:1-6 _ 1. The walk in lowliness and meekness (Ephesians 4:1)_ 2. Keeping the unity of th...
GOD'S CALLING INVOLVES A UNITY OF LIFE. The writer, appealing to his imprisonment, beseeches his readers to walk in a fashion worthy of their calling, _i.e._ in humility, gentleness, and forbearance,...
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called with one hope of your calling. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, a...
Ephesians 4:1-32 INTRODUCTION (Ephesians 4:1-10) With this chapter the second part of the letter begins. In Ephesians 1:1-23;...
So then, I, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you to behave yourselves in a way that is worthy of the calling with which you are called. I urge you to behave with all humility, and gentleness, and patien...
THERE IS. Supply the Ellipsis by " _Ye are_ ". BODY. See Ephesians 2:15; Ephesians 2:16. Spirit. App-101. ARE CALLED. were called also....
_one body_ See on Ephesians 1:23; Ephesians 2:15-16; and below, Ephesians 4:15-16. Here as always the imagery of the Body suggests not only union but united energy and operation. Its frequent recurren...
ἜΝ ΣΩ͂ΜΑ ΚΑῚ ἜΝ ΠΝΕΥ͂ΜΑ. ‘As the body is one so also is the spirit.’ The unity of the body is taken as an axiom, and the unity of the spirit, on which attention is being concentrated, is shown to be a...
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DISCOURSE: 2107 CHRISTIAN UNITY Ephesians 4:4. _There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 4:1-16) II. Duties. Ephesians 4:1-32; Ephesians 5:1-33; E
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; In the apostles' creed the article as to THE CHURCH follows that as to THE HOLY SPIRIT. To the Trinity naturall...
__ 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...
4:4 body (d-4) It may be translated '[the] body is one,' and so on. If we could leave out 'there is' or 'is', the force would be so much the greater....
'One Body, animated by one Spirit, and cheered by one Hope.'...
UNITY OF THE NEW LIFE. RULES FOR THE NEW LIFE The Apostle passes, as usual, from doctrinal statements to practical exhortations; but doctrine is here and there introduced to support exhortation. 1-6...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 4 What Paul taught in Chapter s 1-3 was first about God and his Son Jesus Christ. Then it was about th...
(1) Ephesians 4:1, although cast in a hortatory form contain the final summary of the great doctrine of the Epistle — the UNITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH — in words which have all the glowing freedom of...
THERE IS ONE BODY, AND ONE SPIRIT. — The words “There is” are not in the original, which starts with a striking abruption, and with that terse concentration of thought and word which marks out an embr...
CHAPTER 16 THE EXHORTATION ON CHURCH LIFE. CHAPTER 4:1-16 THE FUNDAMENTAL UNITIES Ephesians 4:1 This Encyclical of St. Paul to the Churches of Asia is the most formal and deliberate of his writings...
ἓν σῶμα καὶ ἓν πνεῦμα : _There is one body and one Spirit_. This is not to be taken as part of the exhortation, ἐστέ or γίνεσθε being understood (Calv., Est., Hofm., etc.); for that would not be consi...
With the fourth chapter begins the second main division of the Epistle. As in others of Paul's Epistles the doctrinal statement is followed by the practical enforcement of duty. Doctrinal consideratio...
KEEPING THE “UNITY OF THE SPIRIT” Ephesians 4:1 Paul here admonishes lowliness in the presence of another's excellence; meekness in suffering injury; long-suffering under provocation; forbearance tow...
The apostle at once proceeded to apply this great doctrine to the present life of the Church. From the heavenly calling he passed to the earthly conduct. The matter of first importance is maintenance...
God's Plan For Unity To have unity, we also must have a plan. The Spirit's message will cause us to realize there is only one body, or church (Ephesians 1:22-23). There is only one Holy Spirit to give...
(4) [There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; (4) An argument of great weight for an earnest displaying of brotherly love and charity with one another, be...
_In one hope of your vocation. The three great reasons that we have to love one another are contained in this verse, because we have but one body, of which Christ is the head. We are all animated by t...
(1) В¶ I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, (2) В¶ With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one anothe...
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 APPEAL FOR UNITY_ ‘There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, Who is over all, and t...
I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week as we studies Chapter 3 of the book of Galatians, Paul told the Gentiles that they were equal with the Jews in Christ! 1. In fact we are all equal at the Cross! B. In C...
4._There is one body. _(139) He proceeds to show more fully in how complete a manner Christians ought to be united. The union ought to be such that we shall form _one body and one soul. _These words d...
The faithful were to seek in the dispositions mentioned above to maintain this unity of the Spirit by the bond of peace. There are three things in this exhortation: first, to walk worthy of their call...
THERE IS ONE BODY,.... The church; in what sense that is a body, and compared to one, Ephesians 1:23. It is called "one" with relation to Jews and Gentiles, who are of the same body, and are reconcile...
_There is_ one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; Ver. 4. _In one hope of your calling_] That is, unto one inheritance, which we all hope for. Fall not out there...
The apostle proceeds to remind the believers at Ephesus of some of the many very powerful considerations which had force enough, if attended to and laid to heart, to induce them to cultivate and prese...
ONE BODY; the church, the body of Christ, of which all true believers are members. ONE SPIRIT; one Holy Spirit dwelling in the hearts of all, and animating all. ONE HOPE; hope of heaven, through fai...
APOSTOLIC ADMONITIONS TO UNITY, TO PERFECTION IN KNOWLEDGE, TO HOLINESS, AND TO PEACE. Ephesians 4:1 Paul exhorts to unity:...
THERE IS ONE BODY AND ONE SPIRIT, EVEN AS YE ARE CALLED IN ONE HOPE OF YOUR CALLING;...
RESPONSE IN PRACTICAL UNITY (vs.1-6) In this letter to the Ephesian saints, Paul first presented the basic truth so essential for individual saints (Ch.1:1- 2:10) and for the Church, the body of Chri...
CHAPTER 4 Even though Paul is a ______________, he still urges us to walk in our __________. This walk must be a ____________ one. What does it mean to walk worthy? Paul gives us some words to consi...
“THERE IS ONE BODY, AND ONE SPIRIT, EVEN AS ALSO YE WERE CALLED IN ONE HOPE OF YOUR CALLING” “There is”: “One may leave this great basis, it remains nonetheless what it is. One may rest on it wholehea...
1-6 Nothing is pressed more earnestly in the Scriptures, than to walk as becomes those called to Christ's kingdom and glory. By lowliness, understand humility, which is opposed to pride. By meekness,...
THERE IS ONE BODY; i.e. the church of Christ, EPHESIANS 1:23: see COLOSSIANS 3:15. AND ONE SPIRIT; the self-same Spirit of Christ in that body by which all the members live and act,...
1 Clement among you? Have we not [all] one God and one Christ? Is there not one Spirit of grace poured out upon us? And have we not one calling in Christ?[206] Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians...
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‘There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all....
EXHORTATION TO ONENESS (4:1-16). Paul calls on them therefore now to be as one, and walk worthily of their calling....
II. MOTIVES FOR PRESERVING THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT. In this passage the leading thought is ‘ the unity of the Spirit; ' the duty of preserving it is not directly enjoined, but motives are presented:...
Ephesians 4:4-6. Meyer gives this analysis of these verses: ‘Objective relations of unity to which the non-observance of the precept in Ephesians 4:3 would be opposed. These are: (1.) _The Church itse...
Ephesians 4:4. THERE IS. This is properly supplied, since we have here, not an exhortation, but a motive. ‘For' is not inserted; the argumentative force of the passage is obvious without it ONE BODY,...
ONE BODY (εν σωμα). One mystical body of Christ (the spiritual church or kingdom, cf. Ephesians 1:23; Ephesians 2:16).ONE SPIRIT (εν πνευμα). One Holy Spirit, grammatical neuter gender (not to be...
Ephesians 4:4 I. Consider the unity or oneness of the Church as set forth by the unity or oneness of the body. "The body is one," says the Apostle. Notwithstanding the several limbs of which it is com...
Ephesians 4:4 Church Unity. In these words, which unite the passionate enthusiasm of thanksgiving with the clear-cut precision of a creed, St. Paul draws out to us explicitly that which is the great...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one anot...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you-_ Paul puts force into the argument by his manner of speaking; you can hear in his words the rattle of his chains. Here is a man who...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,-_ «You are called to be sons of God, you are called to be one with Chri...
CONTENTS: Walk and service of the believer in Christ. Ministry of gifts of Christ to His Body. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit, God, Paul. CONCLUSION: Considering to what state and condition God has...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you_ a pathetic argument, for if I hear of discords among you it will add affliction to my bonds; _that ye walk worthy of the vocation wh...
THERE IS ONE BODY. Not _one kind of body,_ but ONE BODY composed of every one who is IN FACT a son or daughter of God! Even though each congregation is _the body of Christ_ (see note on Ephesians 2:22...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 4:4 SPIRIT. Just as a human body has one spirit that gives it life, so Christ’s body, the church, is given life by one Holy Spirit. ONE HOPE. Christians will live with God...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 4:1 Unity of the Body of Christ. Paul shows how to apply the truths he has been teaching. There are three subsections: vv. Ephesians 4:1,...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 4:4. ONE BODY … AND IN YOU ALL.—“Seven elements of unity St. Paul enumerates.… They form a chain stretching from the Church on earth to the throne and being...
EXPOSITION PRACTICAL PORTION OF THE EPISTLE. EPHESIANS 4:1 CHURCH PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH AND PROGRESS; THE CHURCH A BODY
Now Paul begins the fourth chapter again with the reminder that he is a prisoner of the Lord, and I beseech you, [I beg you, I implore you] that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are call...
1 Corinthians 10:17; 1 Corinthians 12:12; 1 Corinthians 12:13; 1 Corinthians 12:20;...
The connection with the preceding verses is as follows : I exhort you to unity, for you stand related to the Church, which is one body in Christ; to the one Spirit who informs it; to the one hope whic...
THE HIGHER CHRISTIAN LIFE Ephesians 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A prisoner of the Lord. One would hardly expect to find a prisoner in a Roman jail, the author of such a remarkable letter. We are accus...
The apostle having exhorted the Ephesians to. strict unity and concord amongst themselves next proceeds to enforce his exhortation with several arguments; and there are no fewer than seven summed up i...