May be able to comprehend, more fully and perfectly to perceive and understand, with all saints, which are or have been, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, the immense vastness, dignity, and perfection; either:
1. Of redemption by Christ, extending both to Jew and Gentile, and so the mystery before mentioned. Or rather:
2. Of the love of Christ, as follows.
Verse 18. _MAY BE ABLE TO COMPREHEND WITH ALL SAINTS_] ινα εξισχυσητε καταλαβεσθαι. These words are so exceedingly nervous and full of meaning, that it is almost impossible to translate them. The fir...
MAY BE ABLE TO COMPREHEND WITH ALL SAINTS - That all others with you may be able to understand this. It was his desire that others, as well as they, might appreciate the wonders of redemption. WHAT IS...
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
THE WRITER'S PRAYER FOR HIS READERS. Kneeling, in a very ecstasy of prayer, before the Father who is the source and prototype of all fatherly relationship whether on earth or in heaven, the writer pra...
PRISON AND PRIVILEGES (Ephesians 3:1-13) To understand the connection of thought in this passage it has to be noted that Ephesians 3:2-13 are one long parenthesis. The for this cause of Ephesians 3:1...
It is for this cause that I bow my knees in prayer before the Father, of whose fatherhood all heavenly and earthly fatherhood is a copy, that, according to the wealth of his glory. he may grant to you...
ABLE. fully able. Greek. _exischuo._ Only here. Compare App-172. SAINTS. the saints. See Ephesians 3:8. WHAT... HEIGHT. Omit "is". After "height" read "of love is", i.e. God's love in Christ. In bre...
_may be able_ R. V., MAY BE STRONG; more lit. still, MAY GET STRENGTH; the verb being aorist, pointing to a new crisis. The idea is of a wide grasp, a mighty stretch of thought and faith, only to be m...
The main theme resumed: prayer for the Indwelling of Christ 14. _For this cause_ The same phrase as that of Ephesians 3:1. See note there. Here the broken connexion is resumed. The "permanent habitati...
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.
ἘΞΙΣΧΎΣΗΤΕ. ‘That ye may be strong enough.’ Just as we need spiritual strengthening to enable us to believe, because faith in the Christ revealed in Jesus our Lord must tax to the uttermost every facu...
ΈΞΙΣΧΎΣΗΤΕ _aor. conj. act._ от, ΈΞΙΣΧΎΩ (G1840) быть способным, иметь возможность, быть достаточно сильным. _Conj._ с ΪΝ (G2443) выражает содержание молитвы в ст. 16. Предл. сочетание перфектно и ук...
DISCOURSE: 2104 PRAYER THE MEANS OF THE RICHEST BLESSINGS Ephesians 3:14. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,...
THE BREADTH, AND LENGTH, AND DEPTH, AND HEIGHT;— It has often been observed, that this text is extremely emphatical. —Bodies are well known to have only three dimensions, _length_ and _breadth,_ and _...
_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 mini
(3:18) "Power" is "strength," while that ability "to grasp" is "to apprehend," not of experience, but of knowledge itself. It means to take possession of the breadth of the "love of Christ". Every bel...
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; MAY BE ABLE - even still further: [ exischuseete (G1840)] 'May be fully able.' BREADTH, AND LENGT...
__ 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...
MAY BE ABLE] 'may have _full strength_ to comprehend what is really incomprehensible.' THE four dimensions represent the _vastneas_ of the love of Christ towards us. 19. An audacious paradox: 'that y...
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 i...
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...
MAY BE ABLE TO COMPREHEND WITH ALL SAINTS WHAT IS THE BREADTH, AND LENGTH, AND DEPTH, AND HEIGHT. — It has been asked, Of what? Various answers have been given; but as St. Paul has obviously of set pu...
CHAPTER 15 KNOWING THE UNKNOWABLE Ephesians 3:17 WE were compelled to pause before reaching the end of the apostle's comprehensive prayer. But we must not let slip the thread of its connection. Ephe...
CHAPTER 14 PRAYER AND PRAISE. THE COMPREHENSION OF CHRIST Ephesians 3:14 IN Ephesians 3:14 the prayer is resumed which the apostle was about to offer at the beginning of the chapter, when the curren...
A paragraph containing an earnest prayer for the inward strengthening of the readers, the presence of Christ in them, their enlargement in the knowledge of the love of Christ, and the realisation in t...
ἵνα ἐξισχύσητε καταλαβέσθαι σῦν πᾶσι τοῖς ἁγίοις : _that ye may be fully able to comprehend with all the saints_. The “may be strong” of the RV is a less happy rendering than usual, as it obscures the...
THE GREATEST OF ALL DESIRES Ephesians 3:14 The kernel of this prayer is in the clause that Christ may make His home in the believer's heart through faith. The previous petitions lead up to this. Note...
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...
The Desired Results Further, Paul wanted them to completely understand, in all its measures, something, or some things. It may be the love spoken of in the previous verse, or the mystery spoken of ear...
May be able to comprehend with all saints (i) what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; (i) How perfect that work of Christ is in every part....
What is the breadth, &c. It is not expressed to what must be referred these metaphorical words of breadth, length, &c. Some expound them of the charity which in our hearts we ought to have for one ano...
(13) Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. (14) В¶ For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, (15) Of whom the whole family...
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,...
18._May be able to comprehend. _The second fruit is, that the Ephesians should perceive the greatness of Christ’s love to men. Such an apprehension or knowledge springs from faith. By desiring that th...
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...
MAY BE ABLE TO COMPREHEND WITH ALL SAINTS,.... This is the end of their being rooted and grounded in love, that they, together with the rest of the saints interested in it, might have a larger and mor...
May be able to comprehend with all saints what _is_ the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; Ver. 18. _The breadth and length, &c._] God's mercy hath all the dimensions. "Thy mercy, O God, rea...
_That Christ may dwell in your hearts_ May be always present with you, and may reside continually in you, by his purifying and comforting influences, so as to direct your judgment, engross your affect...
COMPREHEND; understand more and more of the inexhaustible, eternal love of Christ, the fulness of which infinitely transcends all finite comprehension....
MAY BE ABLE TO COMPREHEND WITH ALL SAINTS WHAT IS THE BREADTH, AND LENGTH, AND DEPTH, AND HEIGHT;...
The apostle's petition for the Church, which includes an exhortation:...
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 Chr...
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...
“MAY BE STRONG TO APPREHEND WITH ALL THE SAINTS WHAT IS THE BREADTH AND LENGTH AND HEIGHT AND DEPTH” “We observe that the apostle now passes from our love (in which we are to be rooted and grounded)...
13-19 The apostle seems to be more anxious lest the believers should be discouraged and faint upon his tribulations, than for what he himself had to bear. He asks for spiritual blessings, which are t...
Ephesians 3:18 able G1840 (G5661) comprehend G2638 (G5641) with G4862 all G3956 saints G40 what G5101 width...
PAUL'S PRAYER FOR HIS READERS (3:14-21). ‘For this reason -.' Compare Ephesians 3:1 which begins in the same way. Does this mean that this is the continuation that he would have made had he not made a...
Enjoying the empowering of the Spirit and the indwelling of the risen Christ their very being will be rooted and grounded in love, for love is the basis of their salvation (John 3:16; Romans 5:8; 1 Jo...
_The Apostles Prayer for the Church_, _and the concluding Doxology_. As stated in the last section, the thought begun in Ephesians 3:1 is here resumed, and the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of th...
Ephesians 3:18. MAY BE FULLY ABLE, or, ‘may be strong enough,' suggesting difficulty, and the need of exertion. TO COMPREHEND. PHILIPPIANS 3:12-13: ‘apprehend,' a rendering which is perhaps too weak,...
THAT YE MAY BE STRONG (ινα εξισχυσητε). Sub-final clause again with ινα and the first aorist active subjunctive of εξισχυω, a late and rare compound (from εξ, ισχυω) to have full strength. Here onl...
Ephesians 3:14 Filled with all the Fulness of God. I. Perhaps it would be well to leave this phrase in its vague sublimity without any attempt to explain it as it stands. It appeals to the imaginatio...
Ephesians 3:16 Spiritual Strength. We may fasten upon five significant terms as keys by which we may unlock this Divine casket, so that its precious contents, the riches of the Father's glory, may b...
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...
THE POWER TO UNDERSTAND. "Unless your roots and foundations are in _love,_ you will never really be able to understand the far reaching effects of Christ's love!!! Love led him to the Cross and love c...
_For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named._ A PATTERN OF PRAYER The worldly proverb is, “Every man for himself and...
_May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height._ SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION From Divine love, as the root and ground of the soul’s life, comes all spiritu...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 3:17 In v. Ephesians 3:16 Paul speaks of the indwelling “Spirit” and here of the indwelling CHRIST. This suggests that the Spirit
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 3:14 Paul’s Prayer for Strength and Insight. Paul prays that his readers would be strong in their faith (vv. Ephesians 3:14). He concl
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 3:15. THE WHOLE FAMILY.—R.V. “every family.” The word for “family” is only found in the New Testament in St. Luke 2:4 and Acts 3:25; in one translated “linea...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 3:1 DIGRESSION ON THE ADMISSION OF THE GENTILES TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD....
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 Timothy 1:14; 1 Timothy 3:16; 2 Chronicles 6:41; 2 Corinthians 13:13;...
Rooted and grounded [ε ρ ρ ι ζ ω μ ε ν ο ι κ α ι τ ε θ ε μ ε λ ι ω μ ε ν ο ι]. Compare Colossians 2:7, and see note. Grounded or founded, from qemelion foundation. The dwelling in ver. 17 would natur...
That being rooted and grounded — That is, deeply fixed and firmly established, in love. Ye may comprehend — So far as an human mind is capable. What is the breadth of the love of Christ — Embracing al...