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:14. eij" e[painon th'" dovxh" aujtou' .
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oJ path;r th'" dovxh" .
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tiv" oJ plou'to" th'" dovxh" t. klhronomiva" aujtou' ejn t. aJgivoi" .

:16. kata; to; plou'to" th'" dovxh" aujtou' .
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aujtw'/ hJ dovxa ejn th'/ ejkklhsiva/ k. ejn jIhsou' Crivstw/ .

The other occurrences of hJ dovxa in the Epistles of the Captivity are:

Col. 1:11. kata; to; kravto" th'" dovxh" aujtou' .

. tiv to; plou'to" th'" dovxh" t. musthrivou touvtou . Phil. 3:21. suvmmorfon tw'/ swvmati th'" dovxh" aujtou' .

(Compare in contrast vs. 19 hJ d. ejn t. aijscuvnh/ aujtw'n .)

:20. tw'/ de; qew'/ kai; patri; hJmw'n hJ dovxa .

The glory of the Lord ’—is a key-word of Scripture.—The Bible is one widening answer to the prayer of Moses (Ex. 33:18) ‘Shew me Thy glory.’—And God has been pleased to make Himself known in many parts and in many fashions—as man could bear the knowledge:

( a ) by material symbol (Ex. 24:16, Lev. 9:23, Ex. 40:35, 1 Kings 8:11, Ezek. 43:4 ff., Apoc. 21:22 f.),

( b ) through human Presence:

(i) in the Messianic nation (Is. 40:5),—and ( id. 42 ff., 53:3 ff.) the Figure of the ‘Servant of the Lord,’

(ii) finally in the Incarnation of the Son of God, in the Life and Resurrection of the Son of Man (John 1:14, 2:11), the perfect revelation on earth of the Glory of God.

( Revelation of the Father , pp. 164 f.)

The ‘glory of God’ is the full manifestation of His attributes according to man's power of apprehending them, ‘all His goodness’ (Ex. 33:19 ff.). Of it—under the Old Dispensation the Shekinah was the Symbol. (Note on Heb. 1:3.)

‘It is the majesty, or the power or the goodness, of God as manifested to men.’ (Lightfoot on Col. 1:11.)

It is the sum of His manifested perfections. The ‘glory of His grace’ (Eph. 1:6) is the manifestation of the power of His free and bounteous goodness.

The ‘Father of Glory’ (Eph. 1:17) is He, Whom Our Lord Jesus Christ has revealed as Father,—from Whom all perfection proceeds—the source or subject of all revelation.

(In Acts 7:2 the phrase ‘the God of glory’ recalls Ps. 29:3; while in 1 Cor. 2:8 Our Lord Jesus Christ, Whom ‘the rulers of this world crucified’ is ‘the Lord of glory’: cf. Jas. 2:1.)

‘The wealth of the glory’ of God (Eph. 1:18, 3:16)—a phrase occurring also in Col. 1:27 and in Rom. 9:23—signifies the inexhaustible fulness of His Majesty and abundant goodness, as revealed to man.


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