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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ephesians 3:1 - 3:1
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Eph 3:1-21. 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.
As the first chapter treated of THE FATHER’S office; and the second, THE SON’S, so this, that of THE SPIRIT.
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 (Eph 3:13; 2Ti 2:10). He digresses at “For this cause,” and does not complete the sentence which he had intended, until Eph 3:14, where he resumes the words, “For this cause,” namely, because I know this your call of God as Gentiles (Eph 2:11-22), to be “fellow-heirs” with the Jews (Eph 3:6), “I bow my knees to” the Father of our common Savior (Eph 3:14, Eph 3:15) 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 (Eph 3:3-5, Eph 3:9).