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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;
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;
Verse Ephesians 1:4. _ACCORDING AS HE HATH CHOSEN US IN HIM_] As he has decreed from the beginning of the world, and has kept in view from the commencement of the _religious system of the Jews_, (whi...
ACCORDING AS - The importance of this verse will render proper a somewhat minute examination of the words and phrases of which it is composed. The general sense of the passage is, that these blessings...
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...
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all the spiritual blessings which are only to be found in heaven, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of th...
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...
THE PURPOSE OF GOD (Ephesians 1:1-14)...
ACCORDING. Even. HATH CHOSEN. chose out. Greek. _eklegomai._ Compare Acts 1:2. BEFORE. App-104. FOUNDATION. App-146. WORLD. App-129. Compare 2 Timothy 1:9. WITHOUT BLAME. Greek. _amomos._ Here;...
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...
_According as he hath chosen_, &c. Better, ACCORDING AS HE CHOSE, &c. The time-reference is the same as just above; to the Divine premundane deed of purpose. "_Chosen_": out of mankind. See Romans 8:3...
ἘΝ�, with preceding sentence (LP vg boh goth Ambst Pelag Cassiod); joined with Ephesians 1:5 (lat-vet syr-vg Orig Chrys Hier). 4. ΚΑΘῺΣ ἘΞΕΛΈΞΑΤΟ ἩΜΑ͂Σ ἘΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ι. This blessing corresponds both in it...
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...
ΚΑΘΏΣ (G2531) подобно тому как, поэтому. Здесь это слово сочетает в себе идеи сравнения и причины (Schlier; BD, 236). ΈΞΕΛΈΞΑΤΟ (G1586) _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΚΛΈΓΩ выбирать, избирать. Слово вкл...
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...
IN HIM— That is, _in Christ._ See the preceding verse, which, together with this, makes up the following sense: "As it was in consideration of Christ alone that God heretofore, before the foundation o...
_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....
(1:4) "For He chose us..." (Thank you Father for not leaving it up to me) identifies the Father as the One who made the choice to claim us individually as His own. The middle voice verb says that the...
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: HATH CHOSEN US, [ exelexato (G1586)] - 'chose us out for Himse...
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...
In history God selected the Jews first, and then the Gentiles; but the selection of both was made in eternity, independently of time, and through Christ. IN LOVE] man's love to God and his fellows, no...
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...
[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...
ACCORDING AS (_i.e., inasmuch as_) HE HATH CHOSEN US IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. — Again it should be, _He chose us for Himself._ The eternal election of God is inseparably connected wi...
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...
DOXOLOGY, OR ASCRIPTION OF PRAISE TO GOD FOR THE BLESSINGS OF HIS LOVE AND GRACE. This extends over six verses, in one magnificent sentence intricately yet skilfully constructed, throbbing in each cla...
καθώς : _even as_. Not “because,” but “according as,” “in conformity with the fact that”. _Cf._ καθότι, which is used in the NT only by Luke and means both “according as” and “because”; and the Attic...
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...
Spiritual Blessings Are In Christ We owe God thanksgiving and praise because of all the spiritual blessings we have in his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. The expression "in the heavenly places" occurs fo...
(6) According as he hath chosen us in (d) him before the foundation of the world, (7) that we (e) should (f) be holy and without blame (g) before him in love: (6) He declares the efficient cause, or...
As by his eternal decree, according to the _purpose of his good will and pleasure, he hath made choice of us to be his adoptive sons, and predestinated us to be saved and glorified by the merits and g...
(3) В¶ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: (4) According as he hath chosen us in him before the found...
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...
4._According as he hath chosen us. _The foundation and first cause, both of our calling and of all the benefits which we receive from God, is here declared to be his eternal election. If the reason is...
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,...
ACCORDING AS HE HATH CHOSEN US IN HIM,.... This choice cannot be understood of a national one, as Israel of old were chosen by the Lord; for the persons the apostle writes to were not a nation; nor do...
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: Ver. 4. _He hath chosen us in him_] Christ was mediator therefor...
_Blessed be God, who hath blessed us_ God's blessing us is his bestowing spiritual and heavenly blessings upon us. Our blessing God is the paying him our solemn and grateful acknowledgments, both on a...
THAT WE SHOULD BE HOLY; he has not chosen us on the ground that we, of ourselves, make ourselves holy, but purposed that we should be made holy by the power of his Spirit. IN LOVE; referring, accordin...
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...
“EVEN AS HE CHOSE US IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, THAT WE SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH BEFORE HIM IN LOVE” “Even as”: “The first stanza now turns to the past. It traces these bless...
3-8 Spiritual and heavenly blessings are the best blessings; with which we cannot be miserable, and without which we cannot but be so. This was from the choice of them in Christ, before the foundatio...
God blesseth us with all spiritual blessings ACCORDING AS HE HATH CHOSEN US; election being the fountain from whence those blessings come, so that God doeth nothing for us in carrying on the work of o...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI For it were no longer seemly that the friend of God, whom "God hath fore-ordained before the foundation of the world"[131] Tertullian On the Apparel of Women B...
Ephesians 1:4 as G2531 chose G1586 (G5668) us G2248 in G1722 Him G846 before G4253 foundation G2602 world...
‘Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love, having foreordained us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, to himse...
Ephesians 1:4. EVEN AS. The blessing corresponds with the choice. ‘These spiritual blessings are conferred upon us, not merely because God chose us, but they are given in perfect harmony with His eter...
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...
EVEN AS HE CHOSE US IN HIM (καθως εξελεξατο ημας εν αυτω). First aorist middle indicative of εκλεγω, to pick out, to choose. Definitive statement of God's elective grace concerning believers in Chr...
Ephesians 1:3 I. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." These words recall the joy and triumph of the ancient Psalms. They read as if Paul was intending to write a song of happy tha...
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, 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...
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...
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...
BEFORE. "What God did in Christ was not an _afterthought_ or an act of desperation on his part. Salvation comes to you Gentiles because God planned it that way even before the world was made." GOD HAD...
_According as He hath chosen us before the foundation of the world._ ELECTION I. Let us consider the cause, fountain, origin of the blessings of salvation--“according as He hath chosen as.” The bless...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 1:4 HE CHOSE US IN HIM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. God’s decision to redeem believers from sin and death was planned all along “in Christ.” holy and blameless be
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 Corinthians 1:8; 1 John 4:16; 1 Peter 1:2; 1 Peter 1:20; 1 Peter 2:9;
Even as [κ α θ ω ς]. Explaining blessed us, in ver. 3. His blessing is in conformity with the fact that He chose. Chose [ε ξ ε λ ε ξ α τ ο]. Middle voice, for himself. In Him. As the head and repres...
CHRIST THE ALL IN ALL Ephesians 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We cannot call Ephesians the Epistle of Paul. It was written by the Holy Ghost through Paul. The Holy Ghost came to take the things of Christ,...
As he hath chosen us — Both Jews and gentiles, whom he foreknew as believing in Christ, 1 Peter 1:2....
Our apostle having in the former verse offered up. very solemn thanksgiving to God, for blessing the Ephesians with all spiritual blessings in heavenly things in Christ, he comes in this verse to disc...