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John Nelson Darby held a formidable body of doctrine on the subject of the biblical significance of the dispensation of the fulness of times. Darby's literal translation of Ephesians 1:10 is: "Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself for the administration of the fulness of times, [namely] to head up all things in ...
But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, [3] "The fullness of the time": Paul believed and affirmed that the sending of Jesus Christ is at "the nodal point of salvation-history". [4] "Born of a woman": According to Cornelius a Lapide, this "denotes conception without a male". [5]
God did, from all eternity, decree to justify all the elect, and Christ did, in the fullness of time, die for their sins, and rise again for their justification: nevertheless, they are not justified, until the Holy Spirit does, in due time, actually apply Christ unto them.
This state of new being or creation (found in the Bible verses 2 Corinthians 5:17 and Galatians 6:15) can be received only through faith in the Word of God. The Word of Faith interpretation of this new state includes material and bodily welfare. [19] Seed-faith This is the teaching that the things received by faith start with a seed.
According to Witham, this implies an abundance of graces, and greater graces under the new law of Christ than during the time of the law of Moses; which is confirmed by the next verse. [1] Lapide elaborates on this greater grace saying, "Moses gave only an obscure and slight knowledge of God and the Holy Trinity, but by Christ a knowledge that ...
Chapter V of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen gentium discusses the Universal Call to Holiness:...all the faithful of Christ of whatever rank or status, are called to the fullness of the Christian life and to the perfection of charity; ...They must follow in His footsteps and conform themselves to His image seeking the will of the Father in all things.
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In Gnosticism the use becomes more technical, though its applications are still very variable. The Gnostic writers appeal to the use in the NT (evidenced in Irenaeus' account of their views and his corresponding refutation, Iren I. iii. 4), and the word retains from it the sense of totality in contrast to the constituent parts; but the chief associations of pleroma in their systems are with ...