“ This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. ”
This is a great mystery - The Latin Vulgate translates this, “sacramentum hoc magnum est” - “this is a great sacrament” - and this is the proof, I suppose, and the only proof adduced by the papis...
(15) This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. (15) That no man might dream of natural union or knitting of Christ and his Church together (such as the husbands and the...
Ephesians 5:22 to Ephesians 6:9 . Subordination in the Fear of Christ. The principle is illustrated by the relation ( a) of wives to husbands, ( b) of children to parents, ( c ) of slaves to m...
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32. This is a great mystery. He concludes by expressing his astonishment at the spiritual union between Christ and the church. This is a great mystery; by which he means, that no language...
DISCOURSE: 2121 THE MARRIAGE UNION Ephesians 5:21-33 . Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband...
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. This is a great mystery - Το μυστηριον τουτο μεγα εστιν· This mystery is great. Sacramentum hoc magnum est; this sacrament is gr...
This is a great mystery:— It is plain by the fore-going verses, and by the application of the words in Genesis 2:23 to Christ and the church, that the apostles understood several passages in the...
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. х To ( G3588 ) musteerion ( G3466 ) mega ( G3173 ) estin ( G1510 )] 'This mystery is great.' This trut...
The old Darkness and new Light. Rules for the Married 1, 2. In close connexion with what precedes. 'It is the mark of beloved children to become imitators of a loving Father; practise the self-sac...
(4 a. ) In Ephesians 5:22-33 . St. Paul passes from warning against special sins to consider the three great relations of life, first considered as “subjections,” and so illustrating the general pr...
Chapter 22 DOCTRINE AND ETHICS Ephesians 4:25-32 ; Ephesians 5:1-6 The homily that we have briefly reviewed in the last chapter demands further consideration. It affords a striking and instr...
Love of Husband and Wife Ephesians 5:22-33 The Apostle has been urging us to be filled with the Spirit, and now proceeds to show how Spirit-filled people should act in their homes. He has been...
All that the apostle had been saying was emphasized by the statement of their relationship to God as he called them to be "imitators of God." Again he urged them to put off the old and put on the new...
(22) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (23) For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. (24)...
This is a great mystery ,.... It has something mysterious in it; it is a figure and emblem of the mysterious union between Christ and his people: for so it follows, but I speak concerning Christ a...
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Ver. 32. This is a great mystery ] To wit, this mystical marriage with Christ. It passeth the capacity of man to understand...
But to return to the subject from which this pleasing digression has led us: So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies That is, as themselves, or a part of themselves; the bond of marria...
WALK IN LOVE (vs.1-7) Verses 1 and 2 of chapter 5 are closely connected with verse 32 of chapter 4. God's gracious character of love that delights to have us as His dear children is our example....
Duties of Husbands and Wives. A. D. 61. 21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear...
This is a great mystery; either, this that was spoken before of a marriage union between Christ and the church, and its being of his flesh and of his bones, is a great mystery, and so in the latter...
Husbands and Wives Are A Pattern of Christ and His Church (5:22-33). In this passage there is a constant movement from the husband wife relationship to that of Christ and His church. In one sense...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES Ephesians 5:22 . Submit yourselves. —Same word as in previous verse; neither here nor there does it involve any loss of self-respect. The wife’s tribute to her hus...
bride ( Ephesians 5:30 ); ( Ephesians 5:31 ) are quoted from ( Genesis 2:23 ); ( Genesis 2:24 ), and exclude the interpretation that the reference is to the church merely as the body of Christ...
Ephesians 5:32 Sacramental Mysteries. I. The question of baptismal grace when it is conferred, or the conditions upon which it is conferred at all; the manner in which the body and blood of Chris...
Ephesians 5:1 . Be ye therefore followers of God, Or, imitators of God,- Ephesians 5:1 . As dear children; Children are naturally imitators. They are usually inclined to imitate their fathe...
Ephesians 5:1 . Be ye followers of God as dear children, for children are expected to walk in their father's steps. He sends us rain and fruitful seasons, he makes his sun to rise on the evil and...
This is a great mystery. The mysteriousness of religion It is in a discourse upon marriage that the apostle introduces these remarkable words; but it is unnecessary that we connect them with th...
EXPOSITIOn Ephesians 5:1 Be ye therefore imitators of God, as children beloved. These words are closely connected with the preceding. In Ephesians 4:32 he had urged the example of God...
Further application of the comparison:
1 Timothy 3:16 ; 1 Timothy 3:8 ; 2 Corinthians 11:2 ; Colossians 2:2 ; Ephesians 6:19 ; Isaiah 54:5 ; Isaiah 62:4 ; Isaiah 62:5 ; John 3:29 ; Psalms 45:9-17 ; Revelation 19:7 ; Revelation...
Followers of God Ephesians 5:1-33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening verse of today's chapter has a clear and clarion call to the children of God. It is something that we may not sidetrack or push...