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Verse 11. _IN WHOM_] Christ Jesus; _also we_-believing _Jews have_
_obtained an inheritance_-what was promised to Abraham and his
spiritual seed, viz. the _adoption of sons_, and the _kingdom of_
_he...
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IN WHOM ALSO WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE - We who are Christians.
Most commentators suppose that by the word “we” the Jews
particularly are intended, and that it stands in contradistinction
from “...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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THE PURPOSE OF GOD (Ephesians 1:1-14)...
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It was in Christ, in whom our portion in this scheme was also assigned
to us, that it was determined, by the decision of him who controls
everything according to the purpose of his good will, that we,...
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HAVE. Omit.
OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE. Greek. _kleroomai._ Only here.
BEING. having been.
PURPOSE. Greek. _prothesis._ See Romans 8:28.
WORKETH. Greek. _energeo._ See 1 Corinthians 12:6.
AFTER. Gre...
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_In whom also we_ "We" is not emphatic. The emphasis ("also" or
"even") is on the actual attainment, not on the persons attaining. Not
only was the "mystery made known to us," but we came _in fact_to...
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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...
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ἘΚΛΗΡΏΘΗΜΕΝ (אBKLP); ἐκλήθημεν (ADG).
Ephesians 1:1-2. THE SALUTATION
11. ἘΝ ὯΙ ΚΑῚ ἘΚΛΗΡΏΘΗΜΕΝ, ‘in whom also we
were made God’s portion.’ κλῆρος has lost all sense of the
method of distribution and...
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11–14. The outline of the whole plan is now before us. The details
so far as they affect Christians are filled in (Ephesians 1:11-14),
first as regards Jewish Christians (Ephesians 1:11-12), then as
r...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE,— Mr. Locke would render
u949?κληρωθημεν _are become his inheritance;_ alluding to
Deuteronomy 32:9 and interprets it as referring to the admission of
the Gentiles into...
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_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....
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Scriptural predestination...
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In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated
according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the
counsel of his own will:
IN WHOM - in union to whom.
OBTAINED AN...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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[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...
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EVEN IN HIM: IN WHOM ALSO WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE. — We have
here (in the repetition, “even in Him”) an emphatic transition to
the truth most closely concerning the Apostle and his readers. Th...
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(2 c.) Ephesians 1:11 form the third part of the Introduction,
applying the general truth of election by God’s predestination in
Christ, first to the original believers (the Jews), and then to the
sub...
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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...
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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...
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ἐν ᾧ καὶ : _in whom also we_. The ͅκαί does not qualify
the _subjects_ (for there is no emphatic ἡμεῖς, nor is there
any such contrast between ἡμεῖς and ὑμεῖς here as
appears in Ephesians 1:12-13), bu...
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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...
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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...
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A Divine Inheritance
Paul went on to show the gathering together of the previous verses
includes the Jews who had been God's chosen ones under Moses' law,
thus he uses "we." The word "works" means God...
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(15) In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated
according to the purpose of him who worketh (o) all things after the
counsel of his own will:
(15) He applies respectively the be...
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In Christ we also are called by lot; i.e. to this happy lot, this
share and state of eternal happiness, (he seems to speak with an
allusion to the manner by which the lands of a temporal inheritance
w...
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(11) In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated
according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the
counsel of his own will: (12) That we should be to the praise of...
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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...
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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...
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11._Through whom also we have obtained an inheritance. _Hitherto he
has spoken generally of all the elect; he now begins to take notice of
separate classes. When he says, _WE have obtained, _he speaks...
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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,...
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IN WHOM ALSO WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE,.... Or a part and lot;
that is, have obtained one in Christ, in his person, and in his
fulness of grace, in the blessings and promises which are in him; o...
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In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated
according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the
counsel of his own will:
Ver. 11. _We have obtained inheritance_] Or...
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_In whom also we_ Believing Jews; _have obtained an inheritance_
Namely, that of the promises made to the children of Abraham and of
God, even the blessings of grace and of glory, the privileges
belon...
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WE; Jewish believers.
AN INHERITANCE; heirship with Christ to the blessedness of heaven....
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IN WHOM ALSO WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE, BEING PREDESTINATED
ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSE OF HIM WHO WORKETH ALL THINGS AFTER THE
COUNSEL OF HIS OWN WILL;...
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How the plan of God is carried out in the individual cases is nest
shown by the apostle:...
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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...
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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...
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“in whom also we were made. heritage, having been foreordained
according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the
counsel of His will”
“IN WHOM”: In Christ. “WE WERE MADE. HERITAGE”: “Th...
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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...
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IN WHOM WE; we apostles and others elect of the Jewish nation, we _who
first trusted in Christ,_ EPHESIANS 1:12. HAVE OBTAINED AN
INHERITANCE; are called, or brought into the participation of an
inher...
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Ephesians 1:11 In G1722 Him G3739 also G2532 inheritance G2820 (G5681)
predestined G4309 (G5685) to G2596 purpos
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‘In him, I say, in whom also we were made a heritage, having been
foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things
after the counsel of his own will, to the end that we should be to t...
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Ephesians 1:11. IN WHOM YE ALSO. Gentile Christians, not the local
church over against Christians in general. The construction of the
original is peculiar, and has been variously explained. The simple...
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Ephesians 1:11. IN WHOM. This is to be closely connected with ‘in
Him,' and here has the full sense of the Pauline phrase, ‘in
Christ;' it is not equivalent to ‘through whom.'
WE WERE ALSO. ‘We,' _i....
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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...
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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...
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IN HIM
(εν αυτω). Repeats the idea of εν τω Χριστω of verse
Ephesians 1:10.WE WERE MADE A HERITAGE
(εκληρωθημεν). First aorist passive of κληροω, an old
word, to assign by lot (κληρος), to make a...
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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...
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Ephesians 1:11
The Holy Spirit the Seal of God's Heritage and the Earnest of our
Inheritance.
I. In the early Church the access of the Spirit of God to a man was
commonly associated with the mysterio...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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ACCORDING TO. God rules over history. In the message of the Good News,
God's plan and decision, which he had already decided from the
beginning of the world, was revealed to the entire world! Christ i...
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EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 1:1 Introduction. Paul greets the
believers in Ephesus (vv. Ephesians 1:1) and offers praise to God (vv....
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EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 1:11 HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE means
being assured of eternal life. PREDESTINED. God is firmly in control
of history. This is in sharp contrast with the pagan gods of th...
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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...
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_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, “...
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EXPOSITION
EPHESIANS 1:1, EPHESIANS 1:2
ADDRESS AND SALUTATION.
EPHESIANS 1:1...
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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...
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1 Peter 1:4; 1 Peter 3:9; Acts 2:23; Acts 20:27; Acts 20:32;...
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In Him. Resuming emphatically : in Christ.
We have obtained an inheritance [ε κ λ η ρ ω θ η μ ε ν].
Only here in the New Testament. From klhrov a lot. Hence the verb
means literally to determine, choo...
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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,...
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Through whom we — Jews. Also have obtained an inheritance — The
glorious inheritance of the heavenly Canaan, to which, when believers,
we were predestinated according to the purpose of him that worket...
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Our apostle having hitherto spoken of the glorious privileges of the
gospel in general, he comes now to make application of this his
doctrine, first to the Jews, and next to the Gentiles in particular...