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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ephesians 3:3-21

II. THE CHRISTIAN’S CALLING 1:3-3:21". . . the first three chapters are one long prayer, culminating in the great doxology at the end of chapter 3. There is in fact nothing like this in all Paul’s letters. This is the language of lyrical prayer, not the language of argument, and controversy, and rebuke." [Note: William Barclay, The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians, p. 76.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ephesians 3:11-19

B. Corporate calling 2:11-3:19New spiritual life does not just mean that we have experienced regeneration individually. Additionally God brings every Christian into union with every other Christian. In Christ we have solidarity with other believers as well as solidarity with God. Paul next explained this corporate aspect of our being in Christ.". . . a major focus of this letter and of the Prison Epistles in general is the corporate nature of those who are in the body of Christ. Believers do... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ephesians 3:14-19

3. Future comprehension 3:14-19Paul had explained that Jews and Gentiles are one in Christ (Ephesians 2:15). Therefore he prayed that they might experience the unity that was theirs spiritually in their relations with one another. He turned from exposition to intercession (cf. ch. 1; John 13-17). Ephesians 3:14-19 are also one sentence in the Greek text."In the first prayer [Ephesians 1:15-23], the emphasis is on enlightenment; but in this prayer, the emphasis is on enablement. It is not so... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ephesians 3:18

When believers accept Jesus Christ’s revelation of the mystery of the church, they are able to comprehend that God’s love is broad enough to embrace both Jews and Gentiles in the church. They can appreciate that it is long enough to reach the far off (Gentiles) as well as the near (Jews) and to stretch from eternity to eternity. They can see that it is high enough to raise both Jews and Gentiles into the heavenly places. They can understand that it is deep enough to rescue both kinds of people... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ephesians 3:19

Paul desired that his readers would apprehend the love of Christ fully. Yet he acknowledged that full comprehension of that love is impossible because it is greater than mortals can conceive."The four words seem intended to indicate, not so much the thoroughness of the comprehension as the vastness of the thing to be comprehended." [Note: Abbott, p. 99.] "No matter how much we know of the love of Christ, there is always more to know." [Note: Morris, p. 107.] The ultimate goal of Paul’s request... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 3:1-21

Reasons for renewing the Prayer for Wisdom1-13. 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 in the conversion of the Gentiles. ’Many of his readers had not seen him, but they must have heard of the special work assigned to him by God, of making known to all the mystery of the ages, so that even angelic powers learn through the Church the manysidedness of the Divine counsels.’1. ’It was... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ephesians 3:18

(18) May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height.—It has been asked, Of what? Various answers have been given; but as St. Paul has obviously of set purpose omitted all definition, leaving the phrase incomplete in absolute generality, no answer can be perfectly satisfactory. The early fathers delighted to refer it to the cross, and to trace in the four dimensions of the cross a symbol of this four-fold extension of the love of God in Christ.... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ephesians 3:19

(19) To know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.—The intentional paradox of this expression is weakened if (with many interpretations) we suppose that there is opposition in kind between knowledge referred to in the two clauses: as if “to know” meant to know by faith and spiritual experience, while the “knowledge,” which the love of Christ “passes,” is mere “human knowledge”—head-knowledge, and the like. Of such opposition there is no trace (contrast 1 Corinthians 2:6-16). In the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ephesians 3:1-21

Christianity a Revelation Ephesians 3:4-5 I. First of all, let us notice what is implied in this, when we say that Christianity is a revelation. For one thing, there is implied a contrast. When we say that Christianity is a revelation, we mean that it is not an induction or an invention. Every religion purports to be a revelation. Ay and more, every religion in so far as it is true and there is an element of truth in every religion is what it purports to be, a revelation. We need not be... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ephesians 3:14-18

Chapter 14PRAYER AND PRAISE. THE COMPREHENSION OF CHRISTEphesians 3:14-18IN Ephesians 3:14 the prayer is resumed which the apostle was about to offer at the beginning of the chapter, when the current of his thoughts carried him away. The supplication is offered "for this cause" (Ephesians 3:1, Ephesians 3:14)-it arises out of the teachings of the preceding pages. Thinking of all that God has wrought in the Christ, and has accomplished by means of His gospel in multitudes of Gentiles as well as... read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ephesians 3:3-21

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ephesians 3:11-19

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ephesians 3:14-19

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ephesians 3:18

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ephesians 3:19

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 3:1-21

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ephesians 3:18

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ephesians 3:19

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ephesians 3:1-21

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ephesians 3:14-18

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