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Verse 12. _THAT WE_] Jews, now apostles and messengers of God, to whom
the first offers of salvation were made, and who were the _first_ that
_believed in Christ_.
_SHOULD BE TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLO...
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THAT WE SHOULD BE TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY - Should be the occasion
or the means of celebrating his glory; or that praise should be
ascribed to him as the result of our salvation.
WHO FIRST TRUSTED...
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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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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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THE PURPOSE OF GOD (Ephesians 1:1-14)...
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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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THAT. To the end that. Greek. _eis._ App-104.
FIRST TRUSTED. have before hoped. Greek. _proelpizo._ Only here. The
"we" being the saved members of the Pentecostal church closed by the
judgment pronou...
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_That we should be_, &c. On the _time when_of this, see next note but
one, at the end.
_his glory_ His revealed Character, of which the Gospel of the Son is
the grand illustration; being thus "the Gos...
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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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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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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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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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ΕἸΣ ΤῸ ΕἾΝΑΙ Κ.Τ.Λ. ‘So that the contemplation of us
who of old time as members of the Christ have been full of hope might
lead men to give praise for His glory.’ At this point for the first
time in t...
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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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_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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(1:12) "In order that", introduces a purpose clause; the purpose of
our having been redeemed was that "we...might be for the praise of His
glory." We were not saved because of some intrinsic or implie...
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That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in
Christ.
WHO FIRST TRUSTED IN CHRIST - rather (we Jewish Christians), 'who
have before hoped [ proeelpikotas (G4276)] in the [ too...
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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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(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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THAT WE... WHO FIRST TRUSTED IN CHRIST. — That the reference here is
to the first Christians, in contradistinction to the Gentiles of the
next verse, is clear. But the meaning of the phrase “who first...
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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 4
THE FINAL REDEMPTION
Ephesians 1:12
WHEN the apostle reaches the "heritage" conferred upon us in Christ
(Ephesians 1:11), he is on the boundary between the present and the
future. Into tha...
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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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εἰς τὸ εἶναι ἡμᾶς εἰς ἔπαινον τῆς
δόξης αὐτοῦ : _to the end that we should be unto the
praise of His glory_. The art. τῆς is inserted by the TR before
δόξης, but on slender authority. It is omitted by...
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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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That we should be to the praise of his glory, who (p) first trusted in
Christ.
(p) He speaks concerning the Jews....
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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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12._That we should be to the praise of his glory. _Here again he
mentions the _final _cause of salvation; for we must eventually become
illustrations of the glory of God, if we are nothing but vessels...
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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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THAT WE SHOULD BE TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY,.... This is the end of
predestination to the inheritance; and the sense is, either that the
praise of the glory of God, in his grace and goodness, might b...
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That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in
Christ.
Ver. 12. _Who first trusted_] It is a singular honour to be first in
so good a matter. Hope is here put for faith, whereof i...
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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-WHO FIRST TRUSTED; the gospel was first preached to the Jews, and
from them were its first fruits gathered....
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THAT WE SHOULD BE TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY, WHO FIRST TRUSTED IN
CHRIST....
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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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TRUSTED:
Or, hoped...
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“TO THE END THAT WE SHOULD BE UNTO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY, WE WHO
HAD BEFORE HOPED IN CHRIST”
“To the end”: Here is the object or final goal. “THAT WE”:
Christians. “SHOULD”: This is. choice. “BE UNT...
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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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THAT WE SHOULD BE TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY; either:
1. Passively, that the excellency and greatness of God's wisdom,
power, grace, mercy, &c. might be shown forth in us by our being
predestinated,...
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Tertullian Against Marcion Book V
says: "That we should be to the praise of His glory, who first trusted
in Christ? "[762]...
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Ephesians 1:12 that G1519 we G2248 who G3588 trusted G4276 (G5761) in
G1722 Christ G5547 be G1511 ...
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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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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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Ephesians 1:12. THAT WE SHOULD BE. The final aim of the predestination
to become God's heritage is that the subjects (‘we') should be UNTO
THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY; comp. Ephesians 1:6. ‘Grace' is not...
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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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TO THE END THAT WE SHOULD BE
(εις το εινα ημας). Final clause with εις to and the
infinitive εινα (see the mere infinitive εινα in verse
Ephesians 1:4) and the accusative of general reference.WHO H...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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WHO WERE THE FIRST TO HOPE. "We Jews waited many centuries for the
Messiah to come, and we who were the first to believe in Christ have
this hope, not through the Law of Moses, but through the free gi...
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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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EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 1:12 PRAISE. See note on v. 6.
⇐...
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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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_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 1:21; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 1:12; Ephesians 1:13;...
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That we should be. Connect with we were made a heritage.
Who first trusted [τ ο υ ς π ρ ο η λ π ι κ ο τ α ς].
In apposition with we [σ η ο υ λ δ β ε]. So Rev., we who had,
etc., trusted, more properly...
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That we — Jews. Who first believed — Before the gentiles. So did
some of them in every place. Here is another branch of the true gospel
predestination: he that believes is not only elected to salvatio...