Verse 9
9. Make… see Φωτισαι , to illuminate as to what, etc.
Fellowship A better reading would be economy, or established plan.
From the beginning of the world That is, from the point of time and event at which the ages or dispensations started. Ellicott precisely expresses it:
“The counsel itself was formed before the ages.” 1 Corinthians 2:7. The concealment of it dated from the ages; that is, from their starting-point.
Created all things St. Paul here (as in Ephesians 2:8, and often elsewhere) sedulously fastens the redemptive system to God himself; not to any Gentile polytheistic god, but to the supreme God, who founded and brought into existence all things, and not the least among them, this divine scheme of bringing our entire race within the unity of his Son.
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