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Verse 32. _THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY_] τομυστηριον
τουτο μεγα εστιν. _This mystery is great. Sacramentum
hoc magnum est; this_ _sacrament is great_. - VULGATE. And on the
evidence of this version the C...
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THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY - The Latin Vulgate translates this,
“sacramentum hoc magnum est” - “this is a great sacrament” -
and this is the proof, I suppose, and the only proof adduced by the
papists th...
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4. MANIFESTATION IN THE FAMILY-RELATIONSHIP
Chapter S 5:22-6:4
_ 1. Wives representative of the Church (Ephesians 5:22)_
2. Husbands representative of Christ (Ephesians 5:25)
3. The mystery: concer...
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EPHESIANS 5:22 TO EPHESIANS 6:9. SUBORDINATION IN THE FEAR OF CHRIST.
The principle is illustrated by the relation (_a)_ of wives to
husbands, (_b)_ of children to parents, (_c_) of slaves to masters....
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THE IMITATION OF GOD (Ephesians 5:1-8)...
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Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord; for the husband is
the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church, though
there is this great difference, that Christ is the Saviour...
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A. the.
MYSTERY. See Romans 16:25; Romans 16:26 and App-193.
CONCERNING. Greek. _eis_. App-104.
AND. and concerning....
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_This is_, &c. More precisely, THIS MYSTERY IS GREAT. For the word
"mystery" see above, Ephesians 1:9; Ephesians 3:3-4; Ephesians 3:9;
and below...
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Special Exhortations: the Christian Home: Wife and Husband
22. _Wives_ Cp. Colossians 3:18; 1 Peter 3:1-6. In Col. the
corresponding instructions about domestic duty are drawn expressly
from the truth...
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Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9. HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS IN CHRISTIAN
LIGHT
Cf. Colossians 3:18 to Colossians 4:1;...
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THE DUTY OF THE HUSBAND...
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ΤῸ ΜΥΟΤΉΡΙΟΝ ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ ΜΈΓΑ ἘΣΤΊΝ. Cf. Hort
_Chr. Eccl._ p. 151. ‘If we are to interpret ‘mystery’ in the
difficult 32nd verse, as apparently we ought to do, by St Paul’s
usage, i.e. take it as a Divine...
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ΜΥΣΤΉΡΙΟΝ (G3466) тайна. Это слово
обозначает нечто, что человек не может
постичь сам по себе без божественного
откровения. Здесь это мистический
союз Христа и Его церкви (_см._ Ephesians 3:3)....
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DISCOURSE: 2121
THE MARRIAGE UNION
Ephesians 5:21. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of
God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the
Lord. For the husband is the he...
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DISCOURSE: 2124
UNION BETWEEN CHRIST AND HIS PEOPLE
Ephesians 5:32. _This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning
Christ and the Church_.
CHRISTIANITY is a mystery altogether—a great mystery: as i...
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THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY:— It is plain by the fore-going verses, and
by the application of the words in Genesis 2:23 to Christ and the
church, that the apostles understood several passages in the Old
T...
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_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 5:21-33)
C.
Subject yourselves one to another. Ephesians 5:21-33; Ephesians 6:1-9.
1.
The command....
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(5:32,33) We are reminded that this whole discussion is in reference
to "Christ and the Church", but, it presents very practical
application to that which must prevail between husband and wife in the...
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This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the
church.
[ To (G3588) musteerion (G3466) mega (G3173) estin (G1510)] 'This
mystery is great.' This trut...
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The Joint Body-In the Lord
32 There are three secrets in Ephesians: the secret of Christ
(Eph_1:9), the secret administration (Eph_3:9) and the secret of
marriage, here referred to. The physical...
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THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY] RV 'This mystery is great.' 'It has a deep,
wide-reaching meaning; but I am employing it of Christ and the
Church.'...
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THE OLD DARKNESS AND NEW LIGHT. RULES FOR THE MARRIED
1, 2. In close connexion with what precedes. 'It is the mark of
beloved children to become imitators of a loving Father; practise the
self-sacrif...
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CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR
EPHESIANS
_LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_
CHAPTER 5
5:1-14 ~ LOVE
5:1-7 ~ LIVE IN LOVE
V1 You must try to be as much like God as you can. You are his...
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THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY. — Rather, _This mystery is a great one._
The words apply to the type, as well as to the Antitype. (1) The
indissoluble and paramount sacredness of marriage, as all history
sho...
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[5.
Practical Exhortation continued (Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9).
(4)
THE BEARING OF THE TRUTH OF UNITY ON THE THREE GREAT RELATIONS OF
LIFE.
(_a_)
_Between husbands and wives_ — a relation w...
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(4 _a._) In Ephesians 5:22. St. Paul passes from warning against
special sins to consider the three great relations of life, first
considered as “subjections,” and so illustrating the general
precept...
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CHAPTER 25
ON FAMILY LIFE
Ephesians 5:22; Ephesians 6:1.
CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE
Ephesians 5:22
In mutual subjection the Christian spirit has its sharpest trials and
attains its finest temper.
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CHAPTER 22
DOCTRINE AND ETHICS
Ephesians 4:25; Ephesians 5:1
The homily that we have briefly reviewed in the last chapter demands
further consideration. It affords a striking and instructive exampl...
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A paragraph which, in dealing with the duties of wives and husbands as
seen in the new light of Christian truth, gives the Christian ideal of
the marriage-relation. It is the loftiest conception of th...
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τὸ μυστήριον τοῦτο μέγα ἐστίν : _this
mystery is great_. Not “this is a great mystery,” as it is
rendered by the AV and Rhem.; nor “this is a great secret,” Tynd.,
Cran., gen. The term μυστήριον (on w...
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LOVE OF HUSBAND AND WIFE
Ephesians 5:22
The Apostle has been urging us to be filled with the Spirit, and now
proceeds to show how Spirit-filled people should act in their homes.
He has been exhortin...
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All that the apostle had been saying was emphasized by the statement
of their relationship to God as he called them to be "imitators of
God." Again he urged them to put off the old and put on the new....
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Reasons a Man Should Love His Wife
Christ actually put the love of the church above the love of his own
body when he died on Calvary. In marriage, man and woman become one,
thus when the husband loves...
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(15) This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the
church.
(15) That no man might dream of natural union or knitting of Christ
and his Church together (such as the husbands and the w...
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_This....sacrament, (or mystery).... in Christ, and in the Church.
This sacrament, in construction, must be referred to what immediately
went before, i.e. to the conjunction of marriage betwixt man an...
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(22) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the
Lord. (23) For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is
the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. (24)...
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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...
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I. INTRODUCTION
A. The last few teachings in Ephesians we have concentrated on
Christian behavior.
1. Last week, we specifically dealt with the behavior of a Godly wife
as it related to her husband....
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32._This is a great mystery. _He concludes by expressing his
astonishment at the spiritual union between Christ and the church.
_This is a great mystery; _by which he means, that no language can
expla...
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Moreover, let us remark here, and it is an important feature in this
picture of the fruits of grace and of the new man, that when the grace
and love, which come down from God, act in man, they always...
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THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY,.... It has something mysterious in it; it is
a figure and emblem of the mysterious union between Christ and his
people: for so it follows,
BUT I SPEAK CONCERNING CHRIST AND T...
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This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Ver. 32. _This is a great mystery_] To wit, this mystical marriage
with Christ. It passeth the capacity of man to understand it...
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Eph. 5:30-32. "For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of
his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and
shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one fles...
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But to return to the subject from which this pleasing digression has
led us: _So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies_ That
is, as themselves, or a part of themselves; the bond of marriag...
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A GREAT MYSTERY; the mystery of the union of Christ and believers,
represented by the marriage union, and which makes it proper for the
Holy Ghost to speak of believers as members of the body of Chris...
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Further application of the comparison:...
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THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY; BUT I SPEAK CONCERNING CHRIST AND THE CHURCH....
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WALK IN LOVE
(vs.1-7)
Verses 1 and 2 of chapter 5 are closely connected with verse 32 of
chapter 4. God's gracious character of love that delights to have us
as His dear children is our example. The...
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CHAPTER 5
We must not follow the ways of the old man. We must be ______________
of God. He is our Father. We are his _____________.
We must __________ in love because Christ loved us. He gave himsel...
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“THIS MYSTERY IS GREAT: BUT. SPEAK IN REGARD OF CHRIST AND OF THE
CHURCH”
“This mystery is great”: “In this there is. profound truth”
(TCNT). Apparently this expression applies to the Scripture just
q...
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22-33 The duty of wives is, submission to their husbands in the Lord,
which includes honouring and obeying them, from a principle of love to
them. The duty of husbands is to love their wives. The lov...
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THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY; either, this that was spoken before of a
marriage union between Christ and the church, and its being of his
flesh and of his bones, is a great mystery, and so in the latter pa...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I
They declare also that Paul has referred to the conjunctions within
the Pleroma, showing them forth by means of one; for, when writing of
the conjugal union in this l...
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Ephesians 5:32 This G5124 is G2076 (G5748) great G3173 mystery G3466
but G1161 I G1473 speak G3004 ...
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Ephesians 5:32. THIS MYSTERY IS GREAT. On the word ‘mystery' comp.
chap. Ephesians 3:9. Here it stands in emphatic position and refers to
what was spoken of in Ephesians 5:31, namely, the relation of...
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IV. SPECIAL CHRISTIAN DUTIES IN HOUSEHOLD RELATIONS.
(1.) Of wives and husbands; chap. Ephesians 5:22-33. (2.) Of children
and parents; chap. Ephesians 6:1-4. (3.). Of servants and masters;
chap. Ephe...
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1. _Christian Duties of Wives and Husbands._
All the relative duties discussed in this portion of the Epistle are
based upon the fact of a common relation to Christ: the exhortations
are all ‘in the L...
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THIS MYSTERY IS GREAT
(το μυστηριον τουτο μεγα εστιν). For the word
"mystery" see Ephesians 1:9. Clearly Paul means to say that the
comparison of marriage to the union of Christ and the church is t...
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BRIDE
(Ephesians 5:30); (Ephesians 5:31) are quoted from (Genesis 2:23);
(Genesis 2:24), and exclude the interpretation that t
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Ephesians 5:32
Sacramental Mysteries.
I. The question of baptismal grace when it is conferred, or the
conditions upon which it is conferred at all; the manner in which the
body and blood of Christ ar...
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Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye therefore followers of God,_
Or, imitators of God,-
Ephesians 5:1. _As dear children;_
Children are naturally imitators. They are usually inclined to imitate
their father; thi...
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CONTENTS: Walk of the believer as God's child. The believer's warfare
as filled with the Spirit.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul.
CONCLUSION: As members of the family of God, it is our duty to put on...
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Ephesians 5:1. _Be ye followers of God as dear children,_ for children
are expected to walk in their father's steps. He sends us rain and
fruitful seasons, he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the...
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A GREAT TRUTH REVEALED. To Paul, a mystery is something once hidden
but now revealed. The TEV gives the correct meaning. _The Expositor's
Greek Testament_ says: "The truth of which I have spoken, the...
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_This is a great mystery._
THE MYSTERIOUSNESS OF RELIGION
It is in a discourse upon marriage that the apostle introduces these
remarkable words; but it is unnecessary that we connect them with the
or...
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EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 5:32 By MYSTERY Paul means the hidden
plan of God that has come to fulfillment in Christ Jesus (see
Ephesians 1:9;...
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
Ephesians 5:22. SUBMIT YOURSELVES.—Same word as in previous verse;
neither here nor there does it involve any loss of self-respect. The
wife’s tribute to her husband’...
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EXPOSITION
EPHESIANS 5:1
BE YE THEREFORE IMITATORS OF GOD, AS CHILDREN BELOVED. These words
are closely connected with the preceding. In Ephesians 4:32 he had
urged the example of God in one very mo...
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Ephesians, chapter 5.
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children (Ephesians 5:1);
Now, the therefore immediately points you back, back to the last verse
of...
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1 Timothy 3:16; 1 Timothy 3:8; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Colossians 2:2;...
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A great mystery. Great is predicative, not attributive. Rev.,
correctly, this mystery is great. The reference in this mystery is to
the preceding statement of the conjugal relation of the Church with...
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FOLLOWERS OF GOD
Ephesians 5:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The opening verse of today's chapter has a clear and clarion call to
the children of God. It is something that we may not sidetrack or push
aside....