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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ephesians 2:7 - 2:7
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Greek, “That He might show forth (middle reflexive voice; for His own glory, Eph 1:6, Eph 1:12, Eph 1:14) in the ages which are coming on,” that is, the blessed ages of the Gospel which supersede “the age (Greek, for ‘course’) of this world” (Eph 2:2), and the past “ages” from which the mystery was hidden (Col 1:26, Col 1:27). These good ages, though beginning with the first preaching of the Gospel, and thenceforth continually succeeding one another, are not consummated till the Lord’s coming again (compare Eph 1:21; Heb 6:5). The words, “coming on,” do not exclude the time then present, but imply simply the ages following upon Christ’s “raising them up together” spiritually (Eph 2:6).
kindness - “benignity.”
through Christ - rather, as Greek, “in Christ”; the same expression as is so often repeated, to mark that all our blessings center “IN HIM.”