Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

Ephesians 1:3-14

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 and the office assigned to St Paul in regard to it will be described in chap. 3. Here he is dealing directly with the contents of the revelation, and unfolds it in its relation to the Christian life in one long continuous sentence: the thoughts grow naturally one out of another, and the key words, especially the prepositions, recur, as in obedience to some subtle law of association, in an almost rhythmic flow; bat the sentence is not constructed with the precise subordination of a rhetorical period. We must wait to consider its main purpose till we have examined the elements of which it is composed. Cf. 2 Corinthians 1:3-11, a striking link between the calmest and the most agitated of St Paul’s letters. The opening section in 1 Pet. seems to have been suggested by Eph.

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