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vs 6. k. au{th ejsti;n hJ ajgavph i{na peripatw'men kata; t. ejntola;" aujtou': au{th hJ ejntolhv ejstin...i{na ejn aujth'/ peripath'te .

‘St Paul had brought home to believers the divine majesty of the glorified Christ: St John laid open the unchanged majesty of “Jesus Christ come in the flesh”.’

( Introduction to Gospel of St John , p. xv.)

X. HISTORIC FACTS OF THE GOSPEL TO WHICH REFERENCE IS MADE IN

‘EPHESIANS.’

The Incarnation and life of Christ on earth.

Eph. 2:15. ‘having abolished the enmity...the law of commandments in ordinances... in His flesh ,’ i.e. under the conditions of our mortal life.

The Passion.

1:7. ‘in Whom we have our redemption through His blood ( dia; tou' ai{mato" aujtou' ).’

2:13. ‘were made near ( ejgenhvqhte ejggu;" ) in the blood of the Christ’—the reference being “to the—redemption of the Gentiles once for all accomplished by Christ's—Passion.”
ib. 16. ‘and reconcile them...to God through the cross ( dia; tou' staurou' ).’ 5:2. ‘even as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up ( parevdwken eJauto;n ) for us.’
ib. 25. ‘even as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself up for it.’ The Descent into Hades is probably [included in that] which is described in the words katevbh eij" ta; katwvtera th'" gh'" (4:9) and oJ katabav" (vs. 10) [ v. notes ad
loc.
].

The Resurrection.

1:19, 20. ‘according to the working of the might of His strength, which He wrought in the Christ, when He raised Him from the dead ’ ( ejgeivra" aujto;n ejk nekrw'n ).

2:6. ‘and raised us up with Him ( sunhvgeiren ).’ The Ascension.

1:20. ‘and made Him to sit at His right hand in the heavenly order.’ 4:8, 10. ‘When He ascended up on high ( ajnaba;" eij" u{yo" )... Now this He ascended ( to; dev jAnevbh )...He that descended He Himself is also He that ascended far above all the Heavens.’

The absence from the Epistle of any clear reference to the ‘Return’ is to be noted. (But cf. 4:30 eij" hJmevran ajpolutrwvsew" and notes on 1:14; also 1:18.)

The descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost as a special gift to the Church is implied in 1:13 f., ‘in Whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,—in Whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Spirit of promise, the Holy Spirit, which is an earnest of our inheritance’ [ v. not. ad loc. ].

With 4:11 ‘pastors ( poimevna" ) and teachers,’ the only place [in the N.T.] in


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