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The Mystery Revealed

1 For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles—
2 if indeed you have heard of the1 dispensation of the grace of God awhich was given to me for you,  
3 ahow that by revelation bHe made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already,  
4 by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ),
5 which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:
6 that the Gentiles ashould be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel,  
7 aof which I became a minister baccording to the gift of the grace of God given to me by cthe effective working of His power.  

Purpose of the Mystery

8 To me, awho am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles bthe unsearchable riches of Christ,  
9 and to make all see what is the1 fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who acreated all things through Jesus Christ;  
10 ato the intent that now bthe manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church cto the principalities and powers in the heavenly places,  
11 aaccording to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,  
12 in whom we have boldness and access awith confidence through faith in Him.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Ephesians 3:1

HIS APOSTOLIC OFFICE TO MAKE KNOWN THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST REVEALED BY THE SPIRIT: PRAYER THAT BY THE SAME SPIRIT THEY MAY COMPREHEND THE VAST LOVE OF CHRIST: DOXOLOGY ENDING THIS DIVISION OF THE EPISTLE. (Eph. 3:1-21)

of Jesus Christ—Greek, "Christ Jesus." The office is the prominent thought in the latter arrangement; the person, in the former. He here marks the Messiahship of "Christ," maintained by him as the origin of his being a "prisoner," owing to the jealousy of the Jews being roused at his preaching it to the Gentiles. His very bonds were profitable to ("for" or "in behalf of you") Gentiles (Ephesians 3:13; II Timothy 2:10). He digresses at "For this cause," and does not complete the sentence which he had intended, until Ephesians 3:14, where he resumes the words, "For this cause," namely, because I know this your call of God as Gentiles (Ephesians 2:11-22), to be "fellow-heirs" with the Jews (Ephesians 3:6), "I bow my knees to" the Father of our common Saviour (Ephesians 3:14-15) to confirm you in the faith by His Spirit. "I Paul," expresses the agent employed by the Spirit to enlighten them, after he had been first enlightened himself by the same Spirit (Ephesians 3:3-5, Ephesians 3:9).




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