Название: St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians: A Practical Exposition
Автор: Gore Charles
Издательство: Public Domain
Жанр: Зарубежная классика
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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
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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.