Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Ephesians 5:32
This is a great mystery] RV 'This mystery is great.' 'It has a deep, wide-reaching meaning; but I am employing it of Christ and the Church.'
This is a great mystery] RV 'This mystery is great.' 'It has a deep, wide-reaching meaning; but I am employing it of Christ and the Church.'
Verse 32. _THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY_] τομυστηριον τουτο μεγα εστιν. _This mystery is great. Sacramentum hoc magnum est; this_ _sacrament is great_. - VULGATE. And on the evidence of this version the C...
THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY - The Latin Vulgate translates this, “sacramentum hoc magnum est” - “this is a great sacrament” - and this is the proof, I suppose, and the only proof adduced by the papists th...
4. MANIFESTATION IN THE FAMILY-RELATIONSHIP Chapter S 5:22-6:4 _ 1. Wives representative of the Church (Ephesians 5:22)_ 2. Husbands representative of Christ (Ephesians 5:25) 3. The mystery: concer...
EPHESIANS 5:22 TO EPHESIANS 6:9. SUBORDINATION IN THE FEAR OF CHRIST. The principle is illustrated by the relation (_a)_ of wives to husbands, (_b)_ of children to parents, (_c_) of slaves to masters....
Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord; for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church, though there is this great difference, that Christ is the Saviour...
THE IMITATION OF GOD (Ephesians 5:1-8)...
A. the. MYSTERY. See Romans 16:25; Romans 16:26 and App-193. CONCERNING. Greek. _eis_. App-104. AND. and concerning....
_This is_, &c. More precisely, THIS MYSTERY IS GREAT. For the word "mystery" see above, Ephesians 1:9; Ephesians 3:3-4; Ephesians 3:9; and below...
Special Exhortations: the Christian Home: Wife and Husband 22. _Wives_ Cp. Colossians 3:18; 1 Peter 3:1-6. In Col. the corresponding instructions about domestic duty are drawn expressly from the truth...
THE DUTY OF THE HUSBAND...
Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9. HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS IN CHRISTIAN LIGHT Cf. Colossians 3:18 to Colossians 4:1;...
ΤῸ ΜΥΟΤΉΡΙΟΝ ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ ΜΈΓΑ ἘΣΤΊΝ. Cf. Hort _Chr. Eccl._ p. 151. ‘If we are to interpret ‘mystery’ in the difficult 32nd verse, as apparently we ought to do, by St Paul’s usage, i.e. take it as a Divine...
ΜΥΣΤΉΡΙΟΝ (G3466) тайна. Это слово обозначает нечто, что человек не может постичь сам по себе без божественного откровения. Здесь это мистический союз Христа и Его церкви (_см._ Ephesians 3:3)....
DISCOURSE: 2124 UNION BETWEEN CHRIST AND HIS PEOPLE Ephesians 5:32. _This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the Church_. CHRISTIANITY is a mystery altogether—a great mystery: as i...
DISCOURSE: 2121 THE MARRIAGE UNION Ephesians 5:21. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the he...
THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY:— It is plain by the fore-going verses, and by the application of the words in Genesis 2:23 to Christ and the church, that the apostles understood several passages in the Old T...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 5:21-33) C. Subject yourselves one to another. Ephesians 5:21-33; Ephesians 6:1-9. 1. The command....
(5:32,33) We are reminded that this whole discussion is in reference to "Christ and the Church", but, it presents very practical application to that which must prevail between husband and wife in the...
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. [ To (G3588) musteerion (G3466) mega (G3173) estin (G1510)] 'This mystery is great.' This trut...
__ The Joint Body-In the Lord 32 There are three secrets in Ephesians: the secret of Christ (Eph_1:9), the secret administration (Eph_3:9) and the secret of marriage, here referred to. The physical...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 5 5:1-14 ~ LOVE 5:1-7 ~ LIVE IN LOVE V1 You must try to be as much like God as you can. You are his...
(4 _a._) In Ephesians 5:22. St. Paul passes from warning against special sins to consider the three great relations of life, first considered as “subjections,” and so illustrating the general precept...
[5. Practical Exhortation continued (Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9). (4) THE BEARING OF THE TRUTH OF UNITY ON THE THREE GREAT RELATIONS OF LIFE. (_a_) _Between husbands and wives_ — a relation w...
THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY. — Rather, _This mystery is a great one._ The words apply to the type, as well as to the Antitype. (1) The indissoluble and paramount sacredness of marriage, as all history sho...
CHAPTER 22 DOCTRINE AND ETHICS Ephesians 4:25; Ephesians 5:1 The homily that we have briefly reviewed in the last chapter demands further consideration. It affords a striking and instructive exampl...
CHAPTER 25 ON FAMILY LIFE Ephesians 5:22; Ephesians 6:1. CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE Ephesians 5:22 In mutual subjection the Christian spirit has its sharpest trials and attains its finest temper.
τὸ μυστήριον τοῦτο μέγα ἐστίν : _this mystery is great_. Not “this is a great mystery,” as it is rendered by the AV and Rhem.; nor “this is a great secret,” Tynd., Cran., gen. The term μυστήριον (on w...
A paragraph which, in dealing with the duties of wives and husbands as seen in the new light of Christian truth, gives the Christian ideal of the marriage-relation. It is the loftiest conception of th...
LOVE OF HUSBAND AND WIFE Ephesians 5:22 The Apostle has been urging us to be filled with the Spirit, and now proceeds to show how Spirit-filled people should act in their homes. He has been exhortin...
All that the apostle had been saying was emphasized by the statement of their relationship to God as he called them to be "imitators of God." Again he urged them to put off the old and put on the new....
Reasons a Man Should Love His Wife Christ actually put the love of the church above the love of his own body when he died on Calvary. In marriage, man and woman become one, thus when the husband loves...
(15) This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. (15) That no man might dream of natural union or knitting of Christ and his Church together (such as the husbands and the w...
_This....sacrament, (or mystery).... in Christ, and in the Church. This sacrament, in construction, must be referred to what immediately went before, i.e. to the conjunction of marriage betwixt man an...
(22) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (23) For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. (24)...
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...
I. INTRODUCTION A. The last few teachings in Ephesians we have concentrated on Christian behavior. 1. Last week, we specifically dealt with the behavior of a Godly wife as it related to her husband....
32._This is a great mystery. _He concludes by expressing his astonishment at the spiritual union between Christ and the church. _This is a great mystery; _by which he means, that no language can expla...
Moreover, let us remark here, and it is an important feature in this picture of the fruits of grace and of the new man, that when the grace and love, which come down from God, act in man, they always...
THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY,.... It has something mysterious in it; it is a figure and emblem of the mysterious union between Christ and his people: for so it follows, BUT I SPEAK CONCERNING CHRIST AND T...
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Ver. 32. _This is a great mystery_] To wit, this mystical marriage with Christ. It passeth the capacity of man to understand it...
Eph. 5:30-32. "For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one fles...
But to return to the subject from which this pleasing digression has led us: _So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies_ That is, as themselves, or a part of themselves; the bond of marriag...
A GREAT MYSTERY; the mystery of the union of Christ and believers, represented by the marriage union, and which makes it proper for the Holy Ghost to speak of believers as members of the body of Chris...
THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY; BUT I SPEAK CONCERNING CHRIST AND THE CHURCH....
Further application of the comparison:...
WALK IN LOVE (vs.1-7) Verses 1 and 2 of chapter 5 are closely connected with verse 32 of chapter 4. God's gracious character of love that delights to have us as His dear children is our example. The...
CHAPTER 5 We must not follow the ways of the old man. We must be ______________ of God. He is our Father. We are his _____________. We must __________ in love because Christ loved us. He gave himsel...
“THIS MYSTERY IS GREAT: BUT. SPEAK IN REGARD OF CHRIST AND OF THE CHURCH” “This mystery is great”: “In this there is. profound truth” (TCNT). Apparently this expression applies to the Scripture just q...
22-33 The duty of wives is, submission to their husbands in the Lord, which includes honouring and obeying them, from a principle of love to them. The duty of husbands is to love their wives. The lov...
THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY; either, this that was spoken before of a marriage union between Christ and the church, and its being of his flesh and of his bones, is a great mystery, and so in the latter pa...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I They declare also that Paul has referred to the conjunctions within the Pleroma, showing them forth by means of one; for, when writing of the conjugal union in this l...
Ephesians 5:32 This G5124 is G2076 (G5748) great G3173 mystery G3466 but G1161 I G1473 speak G3004 ...
HUSBANDS AND WIVES ARE A PATTERN OF CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH (5:22-33). In this passage there is a constant movement from the husband wife relationship to that of Christ and His church. In one sense it i...
‘This is a great mystery, but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.' The church too on being united with Christ become one. It too is made up of individuals but is one in God's eyes. Their r...
IV. SPECIAL CHRISTIAN DUTIES IN HOUSEHOLD RELATIONS. (1.) Of wives and husbands; chap. Ephesians 5:22-33. (2.) Of children and parents; chap. Ephesians 6:1-4. (3.). Of servants and masters; chap. Ephe...
1. _Christian Duties of Wives and Husbands._ All the relative duties discussed in this portion of the Epistle are based upon the fact of a common relation to Christ: the exhortations are all ‘in the L...
Ephesians 5:32. THIS MYSTERY IS GREAT. On the word ‘mystery' comp. chap. Ephesians 3:9. Here it stands in emphatic position and refers to what was spoken of in Ephesians 5:31, namely, the relation of...
THIS MYSTERY IS GREAT (το μυστηριον τουτο μεγα εστιν). For the word "mystery" see Ephesians 1:9. Clearly Paul means to say that the comparison of marriage to the union of Christ and the church is t...
BRIDE (Ephesians 5:30); (Ephesians 5:31) are quoted from (Genesis 2:23); (Genesis 2:24), and exclude the interpretation that t
Ephesians 5:32 Sacramental Mysteries. I. The question of baptismal grace when it is conferred, or the conditions upon which it is conferred at all; the manner in which the body and blood of Christ ar...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye therefore followers of God,_ Or, imitators of God,- Ephesians 5:1. _As dear children;_ Children are naturally imitators. They are usually inclined to imitate their father; thi...
CONTENTS: Walk of the believer as God's child. The believer's warfare as filled with the Spirit. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: As members of the family of God, it is our duty to put on...
Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye followers of God as dear children,_ for children are expected to walk in their father's steps. He sends us rain and fruitful seasons, he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the...
A GREAT TRUTH REVEALED. To Paul, a mystery is something once hidden but now revealed. The TEV gives the correct meaning. _The Expositor's Greek Testament_ says: "The truth of which I have spoken, the...
_This is a great mystery._ THE MYSTERIOUSNESS OF RELIGION It is in a discourse upon marriage that the apostle introduces these remarkable words; but it is unnecessary that we connect them with the or...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:32 By MYSTERY Paul means the hidden plan of God that has come to fulfillment in Christ Jesus (see Ephesians 1:9;...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 5:22. SUBMIT YOURSELVES.—Same word as in previous verse; neither here nor there does it involve any loss of self-respect. The wife’s tribute to her husband’...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 5:1 BE YE THEREFORE IMITATORS OF GOD, AS CHILDREN BELOVED. These words are closely connected with the preceding. In Ephesians 4:32 he had urged the example of God in one very mo...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Ephesians, chapter 5. Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children (Ephesians 5:1); Now, the therefore immediately points you back, back to the last verse of...
1 Timothy 3:16; 1 Timothy 3:8; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Colossians 2:2;...
A great mystery. Great is predicative, not attributive. Rev., correctly, this mystery is great. The reference in this mystery is to the preceding statement of the conjugal relation of the Church with...
FOLLOWERS OF GOD Ephesians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening verse of today's chapter has a clear and clarion call to the children of God. It is something that we may not sidetrack or push aside....