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Eph_1:1-2. Διὰ θελήμ . Θεοῦ ] See on 1Co_1:1.
τοῖς ἁγίοις ] See on Rom_1:7.
καὶ πιστοῖς ἐν Χ . Ἰ .] furnishes, with τοῖς ἁγίοις ] the completeness of the conception, hence it is not epexegesis (Beza, Vorstius, Calovius, and others), but an appended element, and καί is the closely copulative and. Comp. Col_1:2. It is not, however, the conception of fidelity and perseverance which is appended (Grotius, Locke, Baumgarten, Rosenmüller, Meier; see, on the other hand, already Calovius), but the notion of faith in Christ, since in the address, where the persons are to be designated very distinctly, τοῖς ἁγίοις alone would not yet characterize the readers expressly as Christians. Comp. Php_1:1.
ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ] does not belong to ἁγίοις and πιστοῖς , so that it would denote the sphere, within which the Christians are saints and believing (Harless; comp. Boyd, Storr, Opusc. II. p. 121, Meier, Schenkel), for otherwise (comp. on Col_1:2) καὶ πιστοῖς would be quite superfluous and a tame and heavy addition, inasmuch as the notion of ἅγιος ἐν Χριστῷ presupposes the notion of πιστὸς ἐν Χριστῷ ; but merely to πιστοῖς : fidem in Christo reponentibus. Comp. Eph_1:15, and see on Mar_1:15; Gal_3:26.
Eph_1:2. See on Rom_1:7.