Ephesians 3:2
What meaning of the ephesians 3:2 in the Bible?
What does Ephesians 3:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:"
What does Ephesians 3:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:"
Verse Ephesians 3:2. _IF YE HAVE HEARD OF THE DISPENSATION_] The compound particle ειγε, which is commonly translated _if indeed_, in several places means _since indeed, seeing that_, and should be tr...
IF YE HAVE HEARD - Εἴ-γε Ei-ge “If at least, if indeed, if so be, spoken of what is taken for granted.” “Robinson;” compare 2 Corinthians 5:3; Galatians 3:4; Ephesians 4:21; Colossians 1:23, for the...
3. THE MYSTERY MADE KNOWN Chapter S 2:11-3:21 _ 1. The condition of the Gentiles (Ephesians 2:11)_ 2. But now in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:13) 3. The new and great relationship (Ephesians 2:19) 4...
A DIGRESSION. PAUL THE PRISONER AND HIS RELATION TO THE MYSTERY. A knowledge of Paul's story may be presumed among those who read this letter: they will have heard how he was entrusted with the missio...
It is for this cause that I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for the sake of you Gentiles you must have heard of the share that God gave me in dispensing his grace to you, because God's secret was m...
IF. If indeed. Greek. _eige_. See App-118. HAVE. Omit. DISPENSATION. stewardship. Greek. _oikonomia._ See Ephesians 1:10. THE. that. GRACE. App-184. GOD. App-98. IS. was. TO... -WARD. Greek. _e...
_If ye have heard of_ Lit. IF SO BE THAT YE HEARD OF. This phrase occasions the question, Could this Epistle have been addressed to a Church familiar with St Paul? And it has thus seemed, to some extr...
Ephesians 2:15. ΚΑΤΑΡΓΉΣΑΣ אAB &c. καταρτίσας D*. Ephesians 2:21. ΠΑ͂ΣΑ ΟἸΚΟΔΟΜῊ א*BDG _al_ Clem Orig Chrys. πᾶσα ἡ οἰκ. א*ACP _al mult_. Ephesians 3:5. Τ. ἉΓΊΟΙΣ�. ΠΡΟΦΉΤΑΙΣ אAC &c. Orig. τ. ἁγίοις...
ΕΪ ΓΕ (G1065; G1487) если действительно, конечно. Частицы здесь используются для выражения уверенности (Thrall, 87f). ΉΚΟΎΣΑΤΕ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать. Ind. в _conj._ 1 типа, предпол...
IF YE HAVE HEARD— _Since,_ or _forasmuch as ye have heard._...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 3:1-19) E. Paul's prayer for our strengthening. Ephesians 3:1-19. 1. Beginning of prayer. Ephesians 3:1. 2. Parenthetical Paul's ministry of the mystery o...
(3:2) "If" is first class and states an assumption that they "have heard" all of this before. "Administration" ("dispensation" in the KJV) is oikonomia, literally "the law of the house." The Father ha...
If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: (IF - not doubt [ ei-ge (G1489), 'if indeed']: 'assuming (what I know to be the fact, namely) that ye have h...
__ 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...
REASONS FOR RENEWING THE PRAYER FOR WISDOM 1-13. A digression, which, however, could not be spared. As in Ephesians 1:15, he begins to speak of himself, and this time he explains his unique interest...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 3 3:1-13 ~ GOD HAS MADE HIS SECRET KNOWN 3:1-6 ~ GOD MADE HIS SECRET KNOWN TO PAUL V1 For this reason...
Ephesians 3:1 contain two subjects closely blended together. The first (carrying on what is implied in the contrast drawn out in Ephesians 2) is the absolute newness of this dispensation to the Gentil...
CHAPTER 12 THE SECRET OF THE AGES Ephesians 3:1 Ephesians 3:2 are in form a parenthesis. They interrupt the prayer which appears to be commencing in the first verse and is not resumed until Ephesian...
These verses make a paragraph by themselves. Their main subject is the call of the Gentiles and Paul's Apostolic vocation in relation thereto. He reminds his readers of the mystery of that call, its r...
GENTILES SHARE THE “UNSPEAKABLE RICHES” Ephesians 3:1 _ Dispensation_ should be rendered, “stewardship.” We are God's trustees for men. To each of us is given some special phase of truth which we mus...
God's dwelling in the Church is not finality. It is equipment for the fulfillment of the divine purpose. The apostle claims a stewardship in the mystery of the Church, and declares the astounding fact...
A Prisoner in Christ's Service Paul begins a prayer in 3:1, but immediately digresses. He does not return to his prayer until verse 14. Because Jew and Gentile were built together on the one foundati...
_If yet [1] you have heard. If yet doth not imply a doubt, but is the same as, for you have heard the dispensation. [2] This word, dispensation, is divers times taken by St. Paul to signify the manner...
(1) В¶ For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, (2) If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: It is more than probable, that...
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...
Equality in Christ I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week, in Chapter 2 of Ephesians we took a look at the Lord's "Never Ending Grace." 1. And although the Apostle Paul was speaking specifically to Gentiles,...
2._If ye have heard. _There is reason to believe, that, while Paul was at Ephesus, he had said nothing on these subjects, no necessity for doing so having arisen; for no controversy had taken place am...
The whole of Chapter 3 is a parenthesis unfolding the mystery; and presenting at the same time, in the prayer that concludes it, the second character of God set before us at the beginning of the epist...
IF YE HAVE HEARD OF THE DISPENSATION OF THE GRACE OF GOD,.... Not the free love and favour of God in his heart towards his people; nor internal grace wrought in the heart of the apostle; but either th...
If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: Ver. 2. _Of the dispensation_] Gr. economy. The Church is God's house, 1 Timothy 3:15. Paul was faithful therei...
_For this cause_ That you may be so built up together, and made the temple of God, and his habitation through the Spirit; _I bow my knees_, &c., see Ephesians 3:14, with which the words are evidently...
THE MINISTRY OF PAUL FOR THE EDIFICATION OF THE CHURCH. The revelation of knowledge to Paul:...
THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST REVEALED (vs.1-13) "For this cause" -- because of the marvelous greatness of the work God had accomplished for and in His saints -- Paul preached "the unsearchable riches of Ch...
CHAPTER 3 Paul describes himself as: The ____________ of Jesus Christ For the ____________. We are living in the _________________ of the grace of God. A dispensation is a period of _______ given...
“IF SO BE THAT YE HAVE HEARD OF THE DISPENSATION OF THAT GRACE OF GOD WHICH WAS GIVEN ME TO YOU-WARD”. “If so be”: “Surely you have heard” _(Boles p. 242). _“Dispensation”: “Stewardship responsibilit...
1-7 For having preached the doctrine of truth, the apostle was a prisoner, but a prisoner of Jesus Christ; the object of special protection and care, while thus suffering for him. All the gracious off...
IF YE HAVE HEARD; this doth not imply doubting, but rather the apostle takes the thing for granted; q.d. Seeing ye have heard; and so some render it. See the like, 1 PETER 2:3. OF THE DISPENSATION OF...
Ephesians 3:2 if G1489 heard G191 (G5656) dispensation G3622 grace G5485 God G2316 which G3588 given G1325 (G5685) me G3427 for G1519 you G5209 you - Ephesians 4:21; Galatians 1:13; Colossia
1. _Paul's Office as Apostle to the Gentiles._ In view of the great privilege detailed in chap. Ephesians 2:19-22, culminating in Ephesians 2:22, the Apostle begins to speak of his prayer on behalf of...
IF SO BE THAT YE HAVE HEARD (ε γε ηκουσατε). Condition of first class with ε and first aorist active indicative and with the intensive particle γε that gives a delicate touch to it all. On οικονομι...
GRACE Grace (imparted). (Ephesians 3:2); (Ephesians 4:7); (Ephesians 4:29); (Romans 6:1); (2 Peter 3:18)....
Ephesians 3:1. The Grace Given to Paul. The enthusiasm with which the Apostle speaks of preaching the Gospel to the heathen is contagious. His words burn on the page, and our hearts take fire as we...
CONTENTS: Church, a mystery hidden in past ages. Prayer for inner fullness and knowledge. CHARACTERS: Christ, God, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The divine purpose to make of both Jew and Gentile a...
Ephesians 3:1. _Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ._ He was indeed the prisoner of Caesar, but a greater than Cæsar had said to him in the castle at Jerusalem, “Be of good cheer, Paul, for as thou has...
THAT GOD. "You cannot doubt that I am imprisoned for the sake of you Gentiles, since you have heard about the mission God gave me, to preach the Good News to you without requiring you to obey the Law...
_If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward._ GOD’S DISPENSATION OF GRACE The ministerial calling is termed grace, because the designing to it is of grace...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 3:1 Revelation of the Gospel Mystery. Paul explains his calling and ministry as an apostle to the Gentiles. This assured his Gentile readers that their inheritance in Chris...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 3:1. THE PRISONER OF JESUS CHRIST may be regarded as “the prisoner whom the Lord has bound” (so Winer and Meyer), or as “a prisoner belonging to Christ,” or...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 3:1 DIGRESSION ON THE ADMISSION OF THE GENTILES TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. EPHESIANS 3:1 FOR THIS CAUSE. The reference is not merely to the last statement or illustration, but to...
Let's turn to the third chapter of Ephesians. For this cause [Paul said] I, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles (Ephesians 3:1), It is interesting that Paul was actually a prisoner of Rome,...
1 Corinthians 4:1; 1 Corinthians 9:17; 1 Timothy 1:11; 1 Timothy 2:7; 2 Timothy 1:11; Acts 13:2; Acts 13:46; Acts 22:21; Acts 26:17; Act
If ye have heard [ε ι γ ε η κ ο υ σ α τ ε]. Here begins a long digression extending to ver. 14. If, Rev., if so be, means upon the supposition that; not implying the certainty of the assumption, thoug...
The dispensation of the grace of God given me in your behalf — That is, the commission to dispense the gracious gospel; to you gentiles in particular. This they had heard from his own mouth....
Observe here, 1. The title given to the gospel, it is styled THE GRACE OF GOD; partly because the glad tidings which the gospel brings are the effect and product of God's grace and favour, and partly...