PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Expositor's Greek Testament — Volume 3
Nicoll, W. Robertson (editor), 1851-1923 · 383,339 words · 613 reading sections
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CuapTer III.—Vv. 1-6. WHAT SENSE- LESS FOLLY IS IT FOR YOU, WHO HAD THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST SET PLAINLY BE- FORE YOUR EYES, TO RESORT NOW TO Circumcision! THINK ONLY HOW IT WAS THAT YOU RECEIVED THE SPIRIT: WAS IT BY OBEDIENCE TO LAW OR BY LISTENING IN FaitH? Can you ϱΟΝ- PLETE A SPIRITUAL WORK BY AN ORDI- N…
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Ver. 3. πνεύματι . . . σαρκὶ. These two datives denote the two internal spheres susceptible of moral influence. Conversion had brought about a spiritual change as its immediate result: it was folly to look for a consummation of this change from an ordinance of the flesh like circumcision. This was to exalt fles…
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ἐξ ἔργων νόμου ἢ ἐξ ἀκοῆς πίστεως ; 6. καθὼς ᾿Αβραὰμ ἐπίστευσε τῷ Θεῷ, καὶ ἐλογίσθη αὐτῷ εἰς δικαιοσύνην. 7. γινώσ- κετε ἄρα ὅτι οἱ ἐκ πίστεως, οὗτοί εἰσιν υἱοὶ ᾿Αβραάμ. 8. προϊδοῦσα δὲ ἡ γραφὴ ὅτι ἐκ πίστεως δικαιοῖ τὰ ἔθνη ὁ Θεὸς, προευηγγελίσατο τῷ ᾿Αβραὰμ, ὅτι Ἐνευλογηθήσονται ἐν σοὶ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη. 9. ὥστε οἱ…
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6—14. 169 γὰρ ἐξ ἔργων νόμου εἰσὶν, ὑπὸ κατάραν εἰσί γέγραπται γὰρ dri! Ἐπικατάρατος πᾶς ὃς οὐκ ἐμμένει ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς γεγραμ- μένοις ἐν τῷ βιβλίῳ τοῦ νόμου, τοῦ ποιῆσαι αὐτά. II, ὅτι δὲ ἐν νόμῳ οὐδεὶς δικαιοῦται παρὰ τῷ Θεῷ, δῆλον - ὅτι Ὁ δίκαιος μα τ +? ἐκ πίστεως ζήσεται: 12. 6 δὲ νόμος οὐκ ἔστιν ἐκ πίστεως, ἀ…
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The original passage refers to criminals executed under the Jewish Law, and commands the speedy burial of their dead bodies before sunset in opposition to the vindictive practices prevailing in Palestine among the surrounding nations. 170 ἐν Χριστῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ, ἵνα τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν τοῦ πνεύματος λάβωμεν διὰ τῆς πίστεω…
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15---10. τῷ σπέρματί σου, ὅς ἐστι Χριστός. 171 17. τοῦτο δὲ λέγω, διαθήκην η ε a an al ε , 4 ό A ά προκεκυρωμένην ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ” ὁ μετὰ ETH τετρακόσια καὶ τριάκοντα γεγονὼς νόμος οὐκ ἀκυροῖ, εἰς τὸ καταργῆσαι τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν. 18. εἰ γὰρ ἐκ νόμου ἡ κληρονομία, οὐκ ἔτι ἐξ ἐπαγγελίας - τῷ δὲ ᾿Αβραὰμ δι᾿ ἐπαγγελίας …
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172 διαταγεὶς δι ἀγγέλων, ἐν χειρὶ µεσίτου: 20. ὁ δὲ μεσίτης ἑνὸς οὐκ ἔστιν, ὁ δὲ Θεὸς εἷς ἐστίν. 21. Ὁ οὖν νόμος κατὰ τῶν ἐπαγγελιῶν τοῦ Θεοῦ]; μὴ γένοιτο. εἰ γὰρ ἐδόθη νόμος ὁ δυνάμενος ζωοποιῆσαι, 1τον Θεον NACDEKLP ; Qeov FG; om. Β. the promulgation of the Law: God's intercourse with Moses through the angel …
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Ver. 21. In view of the continuity of divine providence the suggestion that the Law contravened or nullified the previous covenant of God with Abraham and the patriarchs is dismissed as monstrous. It was incompatible with the faithfulness of God to His pledged word, and is therefore repudiated with the customary…
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174 ἐκ πίστεως δικαιωθῶμεν " 25. 26. πάντες γὰρ υἱοὶ Θεοῦ ἐστὲ διὰ τῆς πίστεως παιδαγωγόν ἐσμεν. ἐλθούσης δὲ τῆς πίστεως, οὐκ ἔτι ὑπὸ ἐν Χριστῷ ᾿Ιησοῦ: 27. ὅσοι γὰρ εἰς Χριστὸν ἐβαπτίσθητε, Χριστὸν ἐνεδύσασθε. 28. οὐκ ἔνι ᾿Ιουδαῖος, οὐδὲ Ἕλλην: οὐκ ἔνι δοῦλος, οὐδὲ ἐλεύθερος - οὐκ ἔνι ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ - πάντες γὰ…
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Ver. 28. Having now established the temporary and subordinate function of the Law, the Apostle finally repudiates every claim, whether on that or any other ground, on behalf of any distinct class to superior sanctity in Christ. All Christians, whatever their antecedents, are one in Christ.—otx« ἔνι. Distinctions…
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Ver, 3. νήπιοι: children, i.e., spirit- ually children. The clause points to the stage of undeveloped spiritual life through which converts from heathenism had passed, the spiritual childhood which had been the lot of earlier generations be- 176 στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου ἦμεν δεδουλωμένοι - 4. ὅτε δὲ ἦλθε τὸ πλήρωμα …
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Ver. 7. διὰ Θεοῦ. This language is unusual, and many variations are found in MSS. and versions, amidst them the Received Text Θεοῦ διὰ Χριστοῦ, but there can be little question on MS. evidence that the above is the genuine text. As for the true force of the words, the Epistle has now traced the scheme of redemp…
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sabbatical and jubilee years, was clearly enjoined by the ceremonial Law; and Paul admitted the obligations of that Law for himself and for all the Circumcision. He continued to frequent the Sabbath- worship of the synagogue, attended the feasts, bound himself under voluntary vows. What he condemns is the adopti…
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It appears from this and the following verses that the illness occurred under the eyes of the Galatians, who watched its progress, were familiar with its repulsive symptoms, and displayed tender sympathy with the sufferer. They were aware also of the alteration it had made in his plans. The inference from these …
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179 ὑμῖν τὸ πρότερον, 14. καὶ τὸν πειρασμὸν ὑμῶν 1 ἐν τῇ σαρκί μου οὐκ ἐξουθενήσατε οὐδὲ ἐξεπτύσατε, ἀλλ᾽ ὡς ἄγγελον Θεοῦ ἐδέξασθέ µε, ὡς Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν. 15. ποῦ 3 οὖν ὁ μακαρισμὸς ὑμῶν; μαρτυρῶ γὰρ ὑμῖν ὅτι, εἰ δυνατὸν, τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ὑμῶν ἐξορύξαντες ἐδώκατέ μοι. 16. ὥστε ἐχθρὸς ὑμῶν γέγονα ἀληθεύων ὑμῖν, 17. …
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180 18. καλὸν δὲ τὸ ζηλοῦσθαι ἐν καλῷ πάντοτε, καὶ μὴ μόνον ἐν τῷ παρεῖναί με πρὸς ὑμᾶς, 19. τεκνία] μου, οὓς πάλιν ὠδίνω, μεχρις οὗ μορφωθῇ Χριστὸς ἐν ὑμῖν: 20. ἤθελον δὲ παρεῖναι πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἄρτι, καὶ ἀλλάξαι τὴν φωνήν μου, ὅτι ἀποροῦμαι ἐν ὑμῖν. 21. Λέγετέ μοι, οἱ ὑπὸ νόμον θέλοντες εἶναι, τὸν νόμον οὐκ ἀκούετε; …
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Isaac the child of promise, only son of a free mother after years of barrenness, and heir to an indisputable birthright, aptly prefigured the Church of Christ, born in the fulness of time, made free by the gift of the Spirit, and established for ever in the house of their heavenly Father by an eternal covenant o…
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The statement in the text on the con- trary, For Sinai is a mountain in Arabia, is full of meaning when it is remembered that Hagar had no connection with Sinai itself, but that she found a home for herself and her children in Arabia.— συστοιχεῖ. The previous clause τὸ yap ... ApaBiq is a parenthesis, ἥτις is t…
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ere laid on the freedom of Christ's disciples recalls the conversation of Christ with the Jews in John viii. 32 ... but the bondage is there more distinctly associated with actual sin. Ver. 27. The prophecy of Isaiah liv. 1, here quoted from the LXX, describes the restoration of Zion, the enlargement of her bor…
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Ver. 2. ἐγὼ. The Apostle finds it necessary to express pointedly his own personal judgment on the effect of cir- cumcision in consequence of false reports which had been circulated that he had 184 μὴ πάλιν ζυγῷ δουλείας ἐνέχεσθε. ‘v, 2. ἴδε ἐγὼ Παῦλος λέγω ὑμῖν, . ὅτι ἐὰν περιτέμνησθε, Χριστὸς ὑμᾶς οὐδὲν ὠφελή…
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Ver.7. ἐνέκοψεν. The figure ofa race, introduced by ἐτρέχετε, is here carried on. Hitherto they had run a smooth course of obedience to truth; who had thrown obstacles in their way ? Ver. 8. It was God who called Abra- ham, Moses, Samuel and the prophets of 2--.13, 185 ἀληθείᾳ 1 μὴ πείθεσθαι; 8. ἡ πεισμονὴ οὐκ…
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Vv. 13-15. FREEDOM IS AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF CHRISTIAN LIFE, TO BE USED NOT FOR SELF-INDULGENCE, BUT FOR WILLING SERVICE TO THE LAW OF 186 ἀλλήλοις. ν. 14. Ὁ γὰρ πᾶς νόμος ἐν ἑνὶ λόγῳ πεπλήρωται,! ἐν τῷ, ᾽Αγαπήσεις τὸν πλησίον σου ὡς σεαυτόν. 15. εἰ δὲ ἀλλή- λους δάκνετε καὶ κατεσθίετε, βλέπετε μὴ ὑπὸ ἀλλήλων…
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14--:ἀτϊ. ἃ ἂν θέλητε, ταῦτα ποιῆτε. ὑπὸ νόμον. 18. εἰ δὲ πνεύματι ἄγεσθε, οὐκ ἐστὲ 19. φανερὰ δέ ἐστι τὰ ἔργα τῆς σαρκὸς, ἅτινά ἐστι πορνεία, ἀκαθαρσία, ἀσέλγεια, 20. εἰδωλολατρεία, φαρμακεία, ἔχθραι, ἔρις, ζῆλος, θυμοὶ, ἐριθεῖαι, διχοστασίαι, αἱρέσεις, 21. φθόνοι,3 φόνοι, μέθαι, κῶμοι, καὶ τὰ ὅμοια τούτοις - ἃ…
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Ver. 21. προεῖπον. No particular admonition is here specified: warnings against these sins had, of course, formed the staple of many former discourses. The Epistle has already claimed for 188 Vv. 22---26. κληρονομήσουσιν. 22. ὁ δὲ καρπὸς τοῦ πνεύματός ἐστιν ἀγάπη, χαρὰ, εἰρήνη, μακροθυμία, χρηστότης, ἀγαθωσύνη,…
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189 πραύτητος, σκοπῶν σεαυτὸν μὴ Kal σὺ πειρασθῇς: 2. ἀλλήλων τὰ βάρη βαστάζετε, καὶ οὕτως ἀναπληρώσατε τὸν νόμον τοῦ Χριστοῦ. 3. εἰ γὰρ δοκεῖ τις εἶναί τι μηδὲν ὧν, φρεναπατᾷ ἑαυτὸν 1: 4. τὸ δὲ ἔργον ἑαυτοῦ δοκιμαζέτω ἕκαστος, καὶ τότε εἰς ἑαυτὸν μόνον τὸ καύχημα ἕξει, καὶ οὐκ εἰς τὸν ἕτερον" 5. ἕκαστος γὰρ τὸ ἴδ…
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Vv. 7-10. Gop’s JUDGMENT IS UN- ERRING. THOSE WHO SOW EITHER TO THE FLESH OR TO THE SPIRIT SHALL ALIKE REAP THE HARVEST FOR WHICH THEY HAVE SOWN. BUT FAINT NOT IN WELLDOING, FOR WE SHALL IN DUE TIME REAP LIFE ETERNAL.—Ver. 7. μυκ- τηρίζεται. From its original sense of sneer this verb was applied in rhetorical …
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Vv. 12,13. Paul impugns the sincerity of the agitators: their affected zeal for the Law was a pretext with a view to disarming Jewish enmity: they urged the circumcision of Gentiles also to grati their own vanity. They had probably, like the Jewish Christians at Antioch (cf. ii. 13), been guilty of inconsistency…
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Ver. 18. μετὰ τ. πνεύματος. This form of the final blessing occurs also in 2 Tim. iv. 22 and Philemon 25, but not elsewhere: it was probably suggested 17. Τοῦ λοιποῦ, κόπους μοι μηδεὶς παρεχέτω - ἐγὼ γὰρ τὰ στίγ- ματα τοῦ Κυρίου ‘Ingod’ ἐν τῷ σώματί μου βαστάζω. 18. Ἡ χάρις τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν ᾿Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ μετὰ τοῦ…
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before spring, for the navigation of the Levant and the passes of Mount Taurus between Cilicia and Galatia were alike closed in winter to ordinary travellers. The amount of time spent in the second visit to the Galatian Churches, in Macedonia, at Athens, and on the way to Corinth, is uncertain, but exceeded half a …
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It is true that most critics favour the adoption of an earlier date than 37 for the conversion, but chiefly (as I think) because so little is known of the years immediately following the first Pentecost. It seems to me, on the contrary, probable that several years of silent growth intervened before the disciples we…
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success, and Vitellius, a supple and unscrupulous courtier, afterwards notorious as the basest sycophant at the imperial court, left no stone unturned to win their favour. He at once dismissed Pilate in disgrace,! remitted obnoxious taxes, rescinded unpopular regula- tions, and repaired in person to Jerusalem to cu…
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COMPARISON ΟΕ THE ROMAN WITH THE GALATIAN EPISTLE, Tue position of Paul toward the Roman Church differed widely from that which he held in regard to the Galatian, and his attitude in the two Epistles differs accordingly. He had the strongest possible claim on the loyalty of the Galatians, for he had spent months i…
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limited in its scope: it is very striking wherever the author is dealing with the doctrinal questions at issue between Judaism and Christianity and is scarcely perceptible elsewhere. The limitation is instructive, for it suggests that the author had made these subjects and the passages of the Old Testament which be…
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faith and duty addressed to the central Church of the Empire from the standpoint of an Apostle who claims the right to promulgate a new law in the name of Christ for the whole Roman world ; it insists on the universal sinfulnmess of Jew and Gentile alike; like the Galatian it accepts Abraham as father of the faithf…
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1. Epuesus. The city with which this sublime Epistle is tradi- tionally associated had a notable name in the ancient Greek world. A remarkable place belongs to it also in the history of the origins of the Christian Church. It emerges far back in pre-Christian times, and the glimpses which we get of it from point to…
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by the Meander and the Lycus to Laodicea and Apamea. This being so, the commercial supremacy was held by Miletus for a length of time, the road which was commanded by it having the advantage of being shorter and less difficult than that to which Ephesus was the key. But under the operation of influences which we ca…
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it was a place of paramount religious interest. It was the centre of the worship of the goddess who was known among the Greeks as Artemis and among the Romans as Diana. The temple erected in her honour was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, a splendid structure of shining marble, stated by Pliny (Nat. H…
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of the members of the mother Church, that Apostle made Ephesus his home. The historian Eusebius speaks of his residence there, and reports certain interesting occurrences which took place during his stay. Other names known to us in the sacred history have also cer- tain associations with the Ephesian Church. One of…
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Paul was away in Syria and Asia (Acts xviii. 22, 23) something further was effected in another way. Apollos came to Ephesus, knowing only of the baptism of John. He had the way of God ex- pounded to him more fully by the two devoted friends whom Paul had left behind him in Ephesus. The result was that, understandin…
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Epistles, however, we have some further references to Ephesus and to Paul’s care for the Church there. In 1 Timothy (i. 3), as we have seen, we find that Timothy had been placed in the city with a view to the preservation of sound doctrine, and that Paul desired him to remain there when he himself went into Macedon…
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impressed the greatest minds and has earned for it the title of the “ Epistle of the Ascension”. It tarries largely among “ the heaven- lies,” and lifts us into the eternities a parte ante and a parte post. It is characterised by a dignity and a serenity which are entirely in harmony with the elevation of its thoug…
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(iii. 1-19). This first of the two primary divisions of the Epistle con- cludes with a doxology, which again celebrates that gracious power of God which works all for us and within us. As the doctrinal section occupies the first three chapters, the hortatory section extends over the last three. These chapters are …
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(οἰκονομία) ; the spiritual understanding (γνῶσις, ἐπίγνωσις, σοφία, σύνε- σις, φρόνησις) proper to the Christian and in which he is to increase: There are also the ideas of union and unity, union with Christ, union and fellowship one with another, the unity of the Church, the one- ness of Jew and Gentile, the unit…
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Christ, θυρεός, καταρτισμός, κατώτερος, κληροῦν, κλυδωνίζεσθαι, κοσµοκράτωρ, κρυφῆ, κυβεία, μακροχρόνιος, μέγεθος, μεθοδεία, μεσότοιχον, μωρολογία, πάλη, παροργισμός, πολυποίκιλος, προελπίζειν, προσκαρτέρησις, ῥυτίς, συμμέτοχος, συμπολίτης, συναρμολογεῖν, συνοικοδομεῖν, σύσσωμος. In the case of two of these, αἰχμαλ…
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case of Christ (John iii. 81). The striking resemblance between the ἀνέβη . . . κατέβη, ὁ καταβάς . . . ὁ ἀναβάς in Eph. iv. 9, 10, and the declaration οὐδεὶς ἀναβέβηκεν εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν εἰ μὴ ὁ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καταβάς in John iii. 13 is also noticed. But less can be made of this, as the terms in Ephesians are drawn …
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given to the blood of Christ (Eph. i. 7; Heb. ix. 12). In the use of terms, too, there are resemblances of some significance. In both we have the phrases αἷμα καὶ σάρξ (for the more usual σὰρξ καὶ αἷμα), ὑπεράνω πάντων τῶν οὐρανῶν, αἰὼν μέλλων, προσφορὰ καὶ θυσία, εἰς ἀπολύ- tpwow. And certain expressive words are …
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both writers are quoting the familiar passage in Ps. cxviii. 22, or have its terms in mind. Nor does the coincidence between the opening doxologies (1 Pet. i. 3; Eph. i. 3—in both εὐλογητὸς ὁ Θεὸς καὶ πατὴρ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ) carry us very far. On the other hand there are some marked resemblances in syn…
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ili. 22 ff.: Eph. vi. 9; Col. vi. 1: Eph. vi. 18 ff.; Col. iv. 2 ff.: Eph. vi. 21 £; Col. iv. 7 f. These parallels are by no means all of the same value. Yet with all necessary deductions they are remarkable both in number and in quality. Taken along with the large resemblance in matter, which extends in some part…
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either Epistle, but that there were sections of Ephesians (e.g., i. 4, ef. Col. i. 22 ; i. 6, 7, cf. Col. 1. 13, 14; iit. 3, 5, 9, cf. Col. i. 26, ii. 2) which pointed to the priority of that Epistle, while there were a con- siderable number that pointed in the opposite direction. He took refuge, therefore, in the …
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it professed to be. In short, in oldest antiquity there is nothing to show that the claim which it bore upon its face was questioned, or that it was assigned to any other writer than Paul. It is possible that within the NT writings themselves we have an important indication of the authorship. In Col. iv. 16 mention…
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meaning that would thus be the result, it is very doubtful whether that rendering can be accepted as grammatically justifiable. None of the few instances which are adduced in support of the contention that πᾶς without the article can mean “the whole” can be said to be free of doubt. Some, 6.Ρ., πᾶσα Ἱεροσόλυμα (Mat…
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But with Irenzus at least and the Muratorian Canon we reach sure and indisputable ground. Irenzus refers to Paul by name as the author of our Epistle and quotes it as his. He cites Eph. ν. 13 as words of Paul (Adv. Her.,, i., 8,5); and he expresses himself thus—xdOws 6 μακάριος Παῦλός φησιν ἐν τῇ πρός ᾿Εφεσίους ἐπι…
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want of connection and its many parentheses, in much of its phrase- ology, and in the poverty of its contents. To him it is a composition copious in words but poor in ideas, lacking originality, so dependent indeed on the Epistle to the Colossians as to look like a “ verbose amplification ” of it, the work not of P…
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tion, and at the most the number of these ἅπαξ λεγόμενα is not proportionately greater than in some of the acknowledged Pauline Epistles. In Galatians, e.g., there are thirty-three words used only there and nowhere else in the NT; in Philippians there are forty-one; in 2 Corinthians there are ninety-five ; while in…
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address his hearers as τέκνα ἀγαπητά when the imitation of God is in view, because elsewhere he may use that designation with regard to their relations to himself? ἢ Some of the instances most commonly cited, however, deserve more attention. There is, ¢.g., the use of φωτίζειν in 111. 9, in application to the Apos…
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there is nothing so very strange in this application of the term ἅγιος if we give the word the broad sense which is its proper sense, and which it has indeed in the very same context in the phrase ἐμοὶ τῷ ἐλαχιστοτέρῳ πάντων ἁγίων (ili. 8). In the fourth place serious objection is taken to the Pauline authorship o…
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iii. 10). And the same is true of the ways in which circumcision is regarded in the Pauline Epistles: cf. Rom. ii. 26-29, iii. 1; Gal. v. 6, vi. 15; Phil. iii. 5; Col. ii. 11, 13, etc. A very different position, too, is thought to be given to the Death of Christ in this Epistle from what it has in the acknowledged …
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tion in the different subjects. In the present case the subject is the relation between Christ and the Church; in the others it is the relation between the members of the Church themselves. And as regards the Parousia, the assertion is that, instead of looking, as Paul does elsewhere, to that great event as the nea…
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writer), τὴν ἐκκλησίαν τοῦ Θεοῦ [Κυρίου] ἣν περιεποιήσατο διὰ τοῦ αἵματος αὐτοῦ, xx. 28. In the sister Epistle, too, the term ἐκκλησία is used both of the local Church and of the universal (i. 18, 24, iv. 15, 16). But, apart from that, the unity is a spiritual unity, a oneness which consists in the union of individ…
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opening verse. There is the second fact that all manuscripts, so far as known to us, without any exception have had this express note of destination in the inscription at one time or other. There is the third fact that the description of the intended readers as the saints in Ephesus is found in all the ancient Vers…
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