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The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 3:14-21

PRAYER FOR THEIR SPIRITUAL ENRICHMENT . read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 3:14-21

Prayer for spiritual enrichment . qualities already noted as belonging to Paul's prayer. This prayer remarkable for Three parts in this prayer— I. INTRODUCTION . 1. The attitude: "I bow my knees;" humility, earnestness. 2. The designation of God: "the Father;" the character in which Christ taught us to approach God in prayer, and which gives us most encouragement. 3. The name of the family is derived from God, constituting an additional plea. That which bears God's Name... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 3:14-21

The Christian brotherhood—Paul's second prayer. From the noble idea of the elevation of the heathen to equal privileges with the Jews, the apostle proceeds to a second prayer for the Ephesian converts, in which he rises to still greater elevation of thought. Prostrating himself before the Father of all, he contemplates a family unity embracing both heaven and earth, and he prays that his friends at Ephesus may experience such inward illumination and strength as to be fitting members of the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 3:14

For this cause - Some suppose that this is a resumption of what he had commenced saying in Ephesians 3:1, but which had been interrupted by a long parenthesis. So Bloomfield explains it. But it seems to me more probable that he refers to what immediately precedes. “Wherefore, that the great work may be carried on, and that the purposes of these my sufferings may be answered in your benefit and glory, I bow my knees to God, and pray to him.”I bow my knees - I pray. The usual, and the proper... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ephesians 3:13-16

Ephesians 3:13-16. Wherefore Since by my ministry you have been called to the fellowship of the gospel; I desire that ye faint not Be not discouraged or disheartened; at my tribulations for preaching the gospel to you, which is your glory A cause of glorying and rejoicing to you, inasmuch as hereby it appears how much God regards you, in that he not only sends his apostles to preach the gospel to you, but to do this notwithstanding the great variety of extreme sufferings to which they... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ephesians 3:1-21

God’s wisdom and love displayed (3:1-21)It was because Paul had taken the gospel to the Gentiles that he was imprisoned in the first place (Acts 21:27-36). Yet he feels humbled to think that God should graciously choose him for such a noble work (3:1-2). As a Jew he was once proud of his belief that only Jews were God’s people. Even if some of the ‘far off’ Gentiles believed in God, they were still not God’s covenant people in the sense that Jews were. Now God’s special revelation shows Paul... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 3:14

This verse going back to the subject of Ephesians 3:1 is Figure of speech Anachoresis App-6 . Father . App-98 . of . . . Christ . The texts omit. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ephesians 3:14

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.I bow my knees ... Paul had begun to finish this prayer back in Ephesians 3:1, but he interrupted it for the magnificent digression regarding the great mystery in Christ; now he repeated the words, "For this cause," and completed the marvelous prayer.The Jews often stood to pray (Matthew 6:5; Luke 18:11-13); but kneeling for prayer is often indicated in the New Testament, although it was not... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 3:14

Ephesians 3:14. Unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,— In the foregoing chapter, Ephesians 3:19. St. Paul tells the Ephesians, that now they believe in Christ, they are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God. Here he goes on, and tells them, they are of the family, or lineage of God, being, jointly with Jesus Christ, the sons of God. Nothing could be of greater force to continue them steadfast in the doctrine which he had... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 3:14

14. For this cause—Resuming the thread of Ephesians 3:1, "For this cause." Because ye have such a standing in God's Church [ALFORD]. bow my knees—the proper attitude in humble prayer. Posture affects the mind, and is not therefore unimportant. See Paul's practice (Ephesians 3:1- :); and that of the Lord Himself on earth (Ephesians 3:1- :). unto the Father—The oldest manuscripts omit "of our Lord Jesus Christ." But Vulgate and some very old authorities retain them: Ephesians 3:1- :, "From whom,"... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 3:14-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 3:14-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 3:14-21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 3:14

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ephesians 3:13-16

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ephesians 3:1-21

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ephesians 3:14

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Ephesians 3:14

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 3:14

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 3:14

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