(3:2) "If" is first class and states an assumption that they "have heard" all of this before. "Administration" ("dispensation" in the KJV) is oikonomia, literally "the law of the house." The Father had deposited in Paul that which was going to be required of the Gentiles in order for them to be built up into the building that He intended.

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