Saint Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians; The Greek Text (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...to the context. rfj do-tkyda as a mistress. els ipyao-lav an. jr. They made a business (Acts xix. 24 f.) of impurity, not simply yielding to passion but seeking out deliberately the means of sensual gratification. For f'pyao-ta see Plat. Protag. 353 D rfjs ySovrjs epyaa-lav. For the word cf. also Lk. xii. 58 fior ipyaaiav and for the mode of speech the phrase epyarai ahiKias (Lk. xiii. 27), which itself comes from Ps. vi. 8. iv irXcovegla in selfishness. This appears to be the general sense of 7rAfo- ta, whatever form it may take. The commonest and most typical form is when one sacrifices another to the gratification of his own appetite, as here: e. v. 3. This sense of the word is constant in the NT.: Mk. vii. 22; Rom. i. 29; 2 Pet. ii. 14: compare 1 Thess. iv. 6. Self takes the place of God (Col. iii. 5). 20--24. In contrast with the old life which was summed up in 'selfishness, ' St Paul sketches the new life which answers to 'the new man, ' an embodiment of Christ Himself in Whom the isolated self is lost. 20. i /x-r fie... taking up v. 17 fifteen ujiSs Hut ye did not so learn the Christ.... This is not the life which answers to faith in Him. Christ is Himself the sum of the Gospel. He is preached, received, known (Phil. i. 15; Col. ii. 6; Phil, iii. 10). No similar phrase is quoted. 21. ei ye avrov...Kai ev auVco... Jf at least it was He Whom ye heard (c. i. 13) when He called you, and it was in fellowship with Him ye were further taught, as ye were then enabled to receive further instruction, that you as Christians should put away.... Ka6as eariv...'ir/a-ov even as there is essentially truth in Jesus. The humanity of Christ Jesus) gives reality to our limited conceptions. Truth is no convention. Just as the Lord said 'I am the Truth, ' so H...