Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ephesians 1:12
That we should be to the praise of his glory, who (p) first trusted in Christ.
(p) He speaks concerning the Jews.
That we should be to the praise of his glory, who (p) first trusted in Christ.
(p) He speaks concerning the Jews.
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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,...
THE PURPOSE OF GOD (Ephesians 1:1-14)...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
ΕΊΝΑΙ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. Артикулированный _inf._ с ΕΙΣ (G1519) выражает цель, ΠΡΟΗΛΠΙΚΌΤΑΣ _perf. act. part. от_ ΠΡΟΕΛΠΊΖΩ (G4276) надеяться заранее, уповать. Предложное сочетан...
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...
_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....
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
[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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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 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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
_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...
WE-WHO FIRST TRUSTED; the gospel was first preached to the Jews, and from them were its first fruits gathered....
THAT WE SHOULD BE TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY, WHO FIRST TRUSTED IN CHRIST....
How the plan of God is carried out in the individual cases is nest shown by the apostle:...
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...
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...
TRUSTED: Or, hoped...
“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...
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...
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,...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V says: "That we should be to the praise of His glory, who first trusted in Christ? "[762]...
Ephesians 1:12 that G1519 we G2248 who G3588 trusted G4276 (G5761) in G1722 Christ G5547 be G1511 ...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 1:12 PRAISE. See note on v. 6. ⇐...
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...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 1:1 Introduction. Paul greets the believers in Ephesus (vv. Ephesians 1:1) and offers praise to God (vv....
_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, “...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 1:1, EPHESIANS 1:2 ADDRESS AND SALUTATION. EPHESIANS 1:1...
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...
1 Peter 1:21; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 1:12; Ephesians 1:13;...
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...
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...