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The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Ephesians
Findlay, George G. (George Gillanders) · 128,236 words · 187 reading sections
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Such inspiration would enable the apostle to "make known the mystery of the gospel _with freedom and confidence of speech_": the expression rendered "with boldness"[180] means all this. Before the emperor Nero, or the slave Onesimus, he will be able with the same aptness and dignity and self-command to declare his mess…
805 wordsSECTION 182_Request: Commendation: Benediction._
In the parallel epistle he writes, "that you may know" (Col. iv. 8); here it is, "that you _also_ may know my affairs." The added word is significant. The writer is imagining his letter read in the various assemblies which it will reach. He has the other epistle in his mind, and remembering that he there introduced Tyc…
795 wordsSECTION 183The Benediction.
"Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, From God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ In incorruption" (vv. 23, 24). Grace and Peace were the first words of the epistle,--the apostle's salutation to all his Churches. In _Peace and Grace_ he breathes ou…
843 wordsSECTION 184The Benediction.
Deep beneath the peace that dwells in the Church and the love that fills each believer's heart, is the eternal fountain of _grace_. "Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ," says the apostle. Grace is theirs already; and they desire nothing so much as its increase. Their love to Christ is the fruit of t…
706 wordsSECTION 185Footnotes:
The rendering of our ordinary version, "in sincerity" (in the Revised rendering, "uncorruptness"), gives an ethical sense to the word that is scarcely borne out by usage. It is a different, though kindred expression that St Paul employs to express "uncorruptness" in Titus ii. 7.[187] It appears to us that the term "in…
402 wordsSECTION 186Fourth Series, 1890-1.
THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS (_Expositor's Bible_). Crown 8vo, cloth. COMMENTARY ON COLOSSIANS (_Pulpit Commentary_). COMMENTARY ON I. & II. THESSALONIANS (_Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges_). AN ESSAY ON THE PASTORAL EPISTLES (SABATIER'S _The Apostle Paul_). THE EPISTLES OF PAUL THE APOSTLE: _a Sketch of t…
278 wordsSECTION 187*** End Of The Project Gutenberg Ebook The Expositor'S Bible: The Epistle To The Ephesians ***
The Psalms. By A. MACLAREN, D.D. Vol. I. 1 and 2 Thessalonians. By JAMES DENNEY, D.D. The Book of Job. By R. A. WATSON, M.A., D.D. Ephesians. By Prof. G. G. FINDLAY, B.A. The Gospel of St. John. By Prof. M. DODS, D.D. Vol. II. The Acts of the Apostles. By Prof. STOKES, D.D. Vol. II. 1 Kings. By Very Rev. t…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.