ephesians-1:6,-isaiah-45:22

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Ephesians 1:6-10

The manifestation of God's grace according to His counsel: v. 6. Wherein He hath made us accepted in the Beloved, v. 7. in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace; v. 8. wherein He hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; v. 9. having made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure, which He hath purposed in Himself; v. 10. that in the dispensation of the fullness of times He might... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Ephesians 1:3-14

II. PART FIRSTTHE GLORY OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST1–3A. The ground and goal of the churchEphesians 1:3-231. Grateful praise of the decree of grace(Ephesians 1:3-14)3Blessed be the God and Father15 of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath [omit hath]16 blessed us with [ἐν, in] all spiritual blessings [blessing]17 in [the] heavenly places in 4Christ: According [even] as he hath chosen [he chose] us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him [;] in... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Ephesians 1:1-14

Our Riches in Christ Ephesians 1:1-14 This has been called the “Epistle of In-ness, ”because it is so full of the preposition in. Saints are flesh and blood like ourselves, and we may be saints. The word means “set apart.” We are in Christ and He is in us, and any goodness we have is due to our giving room and scope to Him to realize His own ideals. To be in the heavenlies, Ephesians 1:3 , means to live a spiritual life and to draw our reinforcements from the unseen and eternal world,... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 1:1-23

The theme of this letter is pre-eminently of the Church as the medium for the accomplishment of the divine purpose. Those addressed are described as "saints," and as "the faithful in Christ Jesus." These the apostle greets in the words, "Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." Grace is the river flowing from the heart of God. Peace is the consciousness of the trusting soul. The letter itself begins with a great benediction in which the apostle speaks as a... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Ephesians 1:1-11

Christ the All in All Ephesians 1:1-11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We cannot call Ephesians the Epistle of Paul. It was written by the Holy Ghost through Paul. The Holy Ghost came to take the things of Christ, and to show them unto us. In this Epistle there is nothing but Christ from start to finish. In the first chapter it is, "In Christ," "In Christ," "In Christ." Seven times it is "In Christ." In the second chapter of the Epistle, it is "With Christ," "With Christ," "With Christ." In the third... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 1:6

‘To the praise of the glory of His grace with which He freely engraced us in the Beloved.’ This activity of God will result in the praise of His glorious grace. All universes, if such there be, will wonder at His gracious condescension to those who had proved themselves totally unworthy. For when the whole plan of salvation has been carried through, and the redeemed finally share the new Heaven and the new earth with Him in the glory of Christ, and all that mars creation has been done away,... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 1:3-14

Ephesians 1:3-2 Chronicles : . A Paragraph of Praise.— God, who is also the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is thanked for the blessings— embracing every form of spiritual riches— bestowed through their mystical relationship to Christ in the heavenly sphere upon the writer and upon his readers. The fact of their Christianity is evidence of their vocation to be holy and blameless before Him in love— a vocation which runs back into the eternal counsels ( Ephesians 1:4): God has predetermined... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 1:6

To the praise of the glory of his grace: glory of his grace, by a usual Hebraism, for glorious grace, i.e. large, abundant, admirable. The praise of this grace the apostle makes the end of God’s choosing and predestinating us to the adoption of children. God hath chosen us, &c., and therein manifested his grace to us, that such as it is in itself, such it may be acknowledged to be; and therefore praised and adored by us. Wherein; in, or through, or by the same grace out of which he chose... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ephesians 1:3-14

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESEphesians 1:3. Blessed be the God and Father.—The Hebrew form for “hallowing the Name” was, “The Holy One, blessed be He.” The Prayer Book version of Psalm c. gives, “Speak good of His name.” Who blessed us.—When old Isaac pronounces the blessing uttered on Jacob unwittingly to be irreversible, he depends on God for the carrying out of his dying blessing: the divine blessing makes whilst pronouncing blest. In the heavenly places.—Lit. “in the heavenlies”—so, as... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Ephesians 1:5-6

Ephesians 1:5-6 Regeneration and Sonship in Christ. We have now to consider that original and central Divine purpose which explains and includes all that the infinite love of God has done for our race already, all that the infinite love of God will do for us through the endless ages beyond death. God "foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto Himself." I. "Through Jesus Christ." Our Lord is always represented as being, in the highest sense and in a unique sense, the Son of... read more