Ephesians 3:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

If ye have heard; this doth not imply doubting, but rather the apostle takes the thing for granted; q.d. Seeing ye have heard; and so some render it. See the like, 1 Peter 2:3. Of the dispensation of the grace of God: either by grace he means his apostleship, as Romans 1:5 Galatians 2:9; or the free grace of God for salvation revealed in the gospel which he was to preach; and then by dispensation we must understand his commission or ordination of God to that work, via. to publish that grace whereof the ministers of the gospel are the dispensers, 1 Corinthians 4:1. Which is given me to you-ward; to you Ephesians and other Gentiles, for whom particularly I am appointed an apostle, Acts 9:15, Acts 26:17,18 Ga 2:7.

Ephesians 3:2

2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: