Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ephesians 3:11
According to the (d) eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
(d) Which was before all things.
According to the (d) eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
(d) Which was before all things.
Verse 11. _ACCORDING TO THE ETERNAL PURPOSE_] κατα προθεσιν των αιωνων. _According to the purpose concerning the periods_. This seems to refer to the _complete round_ of the _Jewish system_, and to t...
ACCORDING TO THE ETERNAL PURPOSE - see the note, Ephesians 1:4. Literally, “the purpose of ages,” or of eternity. Locke, Chandler, and Whitby render this, “according to that disposition or arrangement...
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
A DIGRESSION. PAUL THE PRISONER AND HIS RELATION TO THE MYSTERY. A knowledge of Paul's story may be presumed among those who read this letter: they will have heard how he was entrusted with the missio...
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 to me, who am less than the least of all God's consecrated people. that this privilege has been given the privilege of preaching to the Gentiles the wealth of Christ, the full story of which no...
ETERNAL PURPOSE. purpose (Greek. _prothesis._ See Ephesians 1:11) of the ages (App-151.) WHICH. i.e. which (purpose). PURPOSED. made. Greek. _poieo._ CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD. App-98....
_according to the eternal purpose_ Lit., and better, ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSE OF THE AGES. I.e. the Church, as watched by the angels, presents to them the final result (final _in kind_) of the great P...
ΚΑΤᾺ ΠΡΌΘΕΣΙΝ ΤΩ͂Ν ΑἸΏΝΩΝ. ‘In accordance with a plan for the ages.’ Cf. on Ephesians 1:9. ἫΝ ἘΠΟΊΗΣΕΝ. This may be taken in two ways; either (1) ‘which He formed,’ i.e. to which He gave a definite ob...
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.
ΠΡΌΘΕΣΙΣ (G4286) замысел, предначертание. _Gen._ после слова может быть описательным _gen._ ("вечный замысел".), _poss. gen._ ("замысел, который протирается через века" [Abbott]) или _obj. gen._, "зам...
ACCORDING TO THE ETERNAL PURPOSE— Mr. Locke would render the Greek, _According to that pre-disposition of the ages,_ or _several dispensations which he made in Christ Jesus:_ which, by the pre-ordinat...
_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
According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: WHICH HE PURPOSED - Greek, made (to be fulfilled) in Christ Jesus' ()....
__ 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...
3:11 ages, (e-7) Or 'eternal purpose.'...
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...
Ephesians 3:1 contain two subjects closely blended together. The first (carrying on what is implied in the contrast drawn out in Ephesians 2) is the absolute newness of this dispensation to the Gentil...
THE ETERNAL PURPOSE. — Properly, _the purpose of the ages;_ but the sense clearly is, of the purpose of God (see Ephesians 1:11), conceived before the ages of His dispensation, and fulfilled through t...
CHAPTER 13 EARTH TEACHING HEAVEN Ephesians 3:10 "The mystery hidden since the ages began, in God who created all things": so the last paragraph concluded. The added phrase "through Jesus Christ" is...
κατὰ πρόθεσιν τῶν αἰώνων : _according to the eternal purpose_. Literally, “according to the purpose of the ages” or “world-periods”; but represented with substantial accuracy by the “eternal” of the A...
These verses make a paragraph by themselves. Their main subject is the call of the Gentiles and Paul's Apostolic vocation in relation thereto. He reminds his readers of the mystery of that call, its r...
GENTILES SHARE THE “UNSPEAKABLE RICHES” Ephesians 3:1 _ Dispensation_ should be rendered, “stewardship.” We are God's trustees for men. To each of us is given some special phase of truth which we mus...
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...
God's Wisdom As Seen in the Mystery God's wisdom is many sided and can only be understood as he reveals it. This is true for angels as well as men. At the time of Paul's writing, God's great plan for...
(7) Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. (8) Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace g...
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,...
11._According to the eternal purpose. _How carefully does he guard against the objection, that the purpose of God has been changed! A third time, he repeats that the decree was eternal and unchangeabl...
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...
ACCORDING TO THE ETERNAL PURPOSE,.... The whole of salvation, in which is displayed the great wisdom of God, is according to a purpose of his; the scheme of it is fixed in the council of peace; the th...
According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: Ver. 11. _According to the eternal purpose_] Of calling and saving the Gentiles by Christ; a secret that the angels themse...
_To the intent that now_ Under the gospel dispensation, the last and best dispensation of divine grace and mercy to fallen man; _unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places_ To all the vario...
The blessings of grace, which, for Christ's sake, God bestows on those who believe, are the fruits of his eternal purpose, and are given not merely to save them, but to show to the universe the perfec...
The humility of the apostle and the greatness of his mission:...
ACCORDING TO THE ETERNAL PURPOSE WHICH HE PURPOSED IN CHRIST JESUS, OUR LORD;...
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...
“ACCORDING TO THE ETERNAL PURPOSE WHICH HE PURPOSED IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD”. “According”: “This was in accordance” (NASV). “This was according to” (RSV). “In conformity to that timeless purpose whi...
8-12 Those whom God advances to honourable employments, he makes low in their own eyes; and where God gives grace to be humble, there he gives all other needful grace. How highly he speaks of Jesus C...
ACCORDING TO THE ETERNAL PURPOSE: all that God doeth in the work of our redemption, whereby he sets forth his manifold wisdom, he doeth according to what he had from eternity purposed to do, and there...
Ephesians 3:11 to G2596 eternal G165 purpose G4286 which G3739 accomplished G4160 (G5656) in G1722 Christ G5547 J
‘And to make all men see what is the stewardship of the mystery, which from all ages has been hid in God who created all things, to the intent that now to the principalities and the powers in the heav...
Ephesians 3:11. ACCORDING TO THE ETERNAL PURPOSE, lit., ‘the purpose of the ages.' The purpose belongs to the ages, will be retained during the ages, controlling them. This implies a purpose formed be...
1. _Paul's Office as Apostle to the Gentiles._ In view of the great privilege detailed in chap. Ephesians 2:19-22, culminating in Ephesians 2:22, the Apostle begins to speak of his prayer on behalf of...
ACCORDING TO THE ETERNAL PURPOSE (κατα προθεσιν των αιωνων). "According to the purpose (Ephesians 1:11) of the ages." God's purpose runs on through the ages. "Through the ages one eternal purpose r...
Ephesians 3:1. The Grace Given to Paul. The enthusiasm with which the Apostle speaks of preaching the Gospel to the heathen is contagious. His words burn on the page, and our hearts take fire as we r...
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...
WHICH HE ACHIEVED. "God's Plan, which becomes visible in the church, is not some whim of God, but the result of God's eternal purpose. God's great saving power in all of history is focused in and thro...
_To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ Jesu...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 3:1 Revelation of the Gospel Mystery. Paul explains his calling and ministry as an apostle to the Gentiles. This assured his Gentile readers that their inheritance in Chris...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 3:11 ETERNAL PURPOSE. God’s redemption in Christ originated in eternity with God’s “manifold wisdom” (v. Ephesians 3:10; compare...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 3:10. TO THE INTENT THAT NOW … MIGHT BE KNOWN BY THE CHURCH THE MANIFOLD WISDOM OF GOD.—The Church as it expands from a “little flock” to a “multitude which...
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,...
2 Timothy 1:9; Ephesians 1:11; Ephesians 1:4; Ephesians 1:9; Isai
Eternal purpose [π ρ ο θ ε σ ι ν τ ω ν α ι ω ν ω ν]. Lit., the purpose of the ages. He wrought [ε π ο ι η σ ε ν]. Carried into effect. See on fulfilling, ch. 2 3....
Our apostle here shows, 1. That whatever the wisdom of God has done in the work of redemption, was from all eternity purposed to be done, and that our Lord Jesus Christ was the Person by whom God wou...