St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians: A Practical Exposition. Gore Charles
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Eph. iv. 15, 16.

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Eph. v. 32; Rev. xxi. 9.

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1 Cor. xv. 45; Rom. v. 12-19.

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1 Cor. xii. 12.

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Acts xix. 1-7.

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Rom. iii. 24-26. I have tried to develope St. Paul's hint.

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Rom. iii. 25; Acts xiv. 16; Acts xvii. 30.

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The earliest and simplest expression of the matter is that in St. Paul's earliest epistle (1 Thess. v. 10), Christ 'died for us … that we should live together with him.'

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Eph. i. 7; cf. ii. 13 ff.

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Rom. ix. 21.

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1 Cor. xii. 22 ff.

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Cf. St. Matt. xiii. 13-15; St. John xii. 39, 40. We are not (Rom. ix. 17) told why Pharaoh was brought out on the stage of history as an example of God's hardening judgement. But no doubt there was a moral reason.

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Rom. ix-xi.

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Rom. xi. 29.

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Rom. xi. 33.

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1 Tim. ii. 4.

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1 Cor. ix. 27.

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Rom. viii. 38, 39

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I am using the word here not in its Bible sense, for in the Bible God is said to 'know' men in the sense of fixing His choice or approval upon them; and to 'foreknow' is therefore to approve or choose beforehand, as suitable instruments for a divine purpose. I am using the word in its ordinary sense.

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Rom. viii. 28-30.

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Phil. i. 6.

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Amos iii. 2.

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On the Jewish idea of election, cf. app. note C, p. 261.

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Col. i. 1.

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Col. i. 28.

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See app. note C, p. 257.

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