St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians: A Practical Exposition. Gore Charles
1 and 2 Corinthians, Romans.
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See app. note C, p. 257.
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Acts ix. 20; 1 Cor. viii. 6; Rom. ix. 5; 2 Cor. viii. 9; Gal. iv. 4.
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Colossians, Ephesians, Philippians, Philemon.
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Col. ii. 18: 'by a voluntary humility (or 'taking delight in humility') and worshipping of the angels.'
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See i. 13-20; ii. 2, 3, 9-23; iii. 11. Cf. i. 27-28.
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Hort,
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Cf. app. note C, p. 257.
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Cf. Hort,
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Col. iv. 2-4; Philemon 22; Phil. i. 12-14.
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Ramsay,
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Ramsay,
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See Mommsen,
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App. note A, p. 251.
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Tatian,
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Ramsay,
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Rom. xiii. 1-7; cf. ii. Thess. ii. 6.
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1 Tim. ii. 1, 2.
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Acts xxv. 12.
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Ramsay,
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Lightfoot,
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See app. note B, p. 253.
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'The zeal of its inhabitants for philosophy and general culture is such that they have surpassed even Athens and Alexandria and all other cities where schools of philosophy can be mentioned. And its pre-eminence in this respect is so great because there the students are all townspeople, and strangers do not readily settle there.' Strabo, xiv. v. 13. I do not suppose that St. Paul received any formal education in Greek schools at Tarsus. But I think we must assume that at some period St. Paul had sufficient contact with Gentile educated opinion, whether at Tarsus or elsewhere, to be acquainted with widely-spread religious and philosophical tendencies.
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Cf. Hort,
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Acts xix. 21.
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Rom. i. 15, 16.
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Acts xxiii. 11.
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Acts xxvii. 24.
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Acts xxviii. 15.
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Acts xx. 29, 30.
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Among other articles of commerce, tents made in Ephesus had a special reputation, and St. Paul and Aquila had special opportunities there for the exercise of their trade. Acts xx. 34.
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Strabo. xiv. 1, 25.
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Migne,
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Acts xvi. 6-10.
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Acts xviii. 19.
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Hort,
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Acts xix. 1-7.
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Ramsay,
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'From the fifth to the tenth hour' (11 a.m. to 4 p.m.), an early addition to the text of the Acts tells us; i. e. after work hours, when the school would naturally be vacant and St. Paul would have finished his manual labour at tent-making. Ramsay,
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1 Cor. xv. 32.
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Acts xix. 23 ff.
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Prof. Ramsay asserts that instead of 'robbers of temples' (Acts xix. 37), we should translate 'disloyal to the established government.'
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See app. note B, p. 253, on the contemporary 'letters of Heracleitus.'
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Acts xx. 17 ff.
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Col. iv. 16.
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2 Cor. viii. 23.
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1 Cor. ix. 1.
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1 Cor. xv. 8.
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2 Cor. xii. 11.
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Gal. i. 1.
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Tertullian,
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Acts ix. 13, 33.
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Cf. 1 Cor. viii. 6; Col. i. 16.
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Rom. ix. 5.
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Tit. ii. 13.
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Rom. viii. 29.
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1 Cor. xv. 23.
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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.