Ephesians 3:9

9. The second effect of the commission has a yet wider range. Ultimately it reaches the whole universe of created being by bringing into clear light an eternal fact of boundless issues.

φωτίσαι. The Gospel has an illuminating power ‘bringing life and immortality to light’ (2 Timothy 1:10) and piercing the gloom in which our hearts are shrouded (2 Corinthians 4:4-6). Here it is the Divine ordering of the universe that at last stands revealed.

ἡ οἰκονομία τοῦ μνστηρίου. In its widest sense, as perhaps in Ephesians 1:10. No longer the special office committed to St Paul (Ephesians 3:2).

τοῦ�. Cf. on Ephesians 3:5.

ἀπὸ τῶν αἰώνων. Cf. Colossians 1:26; Luke 1:70; and χρόνοις αἰωνίοις, Romans 16:25.

ἐν τῷ θεῷ. Cf. Colossians 3:3. For the thought cf. Mark 13:32.

τῷ τὰ πάντα κτίσαντι. Cf. Ephesians 1:11; Ephesians 2:10.