The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Ephesians. George G. Findlay
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George G. Findlay
The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Ephesians
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664562616
Table of Contents
ON CHURCH LIFE.
THE INTRODUCTION.
Chapter i. 1, 2.
Οὐ μόνον Ἐφέσου ἀλλὰ σχεδὸν πάσης τῆς Ἀσίας ὁ Παῦλος οὗτος πείσας μετέστησεν ἱκανὸν ὄχλον (Demetrius the Silversmith).
Acts xix. 26.
CHAPTER I.
THE WRITER AND READERS.
“Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints, who are indeed faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”[1]—Eph. i. 1, 2.
In passing from the Galatian to the Ephesian epistle we are conscious of entering a different atmosphere. We leave the region of controversy for that of meditation. From the battle-field we step into the hush and stillness of the temple. Verses 3–14 of this chapter constitute the most sustained and perfect act of praise that is found in the apostle’s letters. It is as though a door were suddenly opened in heaven; it shuts behind us, and earthly tumult dies away. The contrast between these two writings, following each other in the established order of the epistles, is singular and in some ways extreme. They are, respectively, the most combative and peaceful, the most impassioned and unimpassioned, the most concrete and abstract, the most human and divine amongst the great apostle’s writings.
Yet there is a fundamental resemblance and identity of character. The two letters are not the expression of different