{"id":3725,"date":"2015-07-17T10:42:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T16:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3725"},"modified":"2022-12-16T06:20:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T12:20:26","slug":"ephesians-313-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3725","title":{"rendered":"Ephesians 3:13-16"},"content":{"rendered":"

13\u00a0<\/sup>Therefore I ask that you do not lose heart at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

14\u00a0<\/sup>For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, <\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

15\u00a0<\/sup>from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

16\u00a0<\/sup>that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

therefore (v.13) \u2014 referring to vs. 1-12<\/span><\/a> in which Paul explains his ministry of the mystery<\/h3>\n

ask (v.13) = to ask for in one’s own interest<\/h3>\n

lose heart (v.13) = lose courage<\/h3>\n

tribulations (v.13) \u2014 Paul wrote this letter from prison.<\/h3>\n

The greater the office of the sufferer, the more did the afflictions which he was content to endure for them redound to their honor; and the better this was understood by them, the less should they give way to weakness and discouragement. \u2014 Wuest, page 86<\/span><\/h3>\n

for this reason (v.14) \u2014 for the ministry of the mystery, but specifically here that they would stay strong and not lose courage<\/h3>\n

bow my knees (v.14) \u2014 earnest prayer \u2014 not necessarily, but possibly, including the physical act<\/h3>\n

to (v.14) – facing \u2014 indicating Paul’s focus on God<\/h3>\n

We noticed that the first prayer [<\/span>Ephesians 1:16<\/a><\/span>]<\/span> is addressed to the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, for God as such is the Source of all counsels, but this second prayer, which has to do more with family relationship, is addressed to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/h3>\n

When I think of God, I think of the Maker of all things, the Planner of all things who fitted the ages together. But I think of the Father as the One from whose bosom the eternal Son came into this world, becoming Man for our Salvation. Ere He left this scene He said to Mary, “I ascend unto My Father, and\u00a0 your Father; and to My God, and your God” (John 20:17<\/a><\/span>). There, you see, you have the two thoughts: God the Source of all counsels; the Father, the Source of all affections \u2014 family affection, the very center of family relationship. \u2014 Ironside, pages 155-156.<\/span><\/h3>\n

of our Lord Jesus Christ (v.14) \u2014 not in some manuscripts<\/h3>\n

from whom (v.15) = lit. “out from whom”<\/h3>\n

the whole family (v.15) = lit. “every family”<\/h3>\n

The sense, therefore is “the Father, from whom all related orders of intelligent beings, human and angelic, each by itself, get the significant name of family<\/em>, community<\/em>.” The various classes of men on earth, Jew, Gentiles, and others, and the various orders of angels in heaven, are related to God, the common Father, and only in virtue of that relation has any of them the name of family<\/em>. \u2014 Wuest, page 87<\/span><\/h3>\n

His glory (v.16) \u2014 all the perfections of God in their inexhaustible fulness and wealth<\/h3>\n

in (v.16) = into \u2014 a preposition indicating motion<\/h3>\n

inward man (v.16) \u2014 the personal, moral self, the moral “I” of which man is self-conscious<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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