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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 ...
Ephesians 1 is the first chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.Traditionally, it is believed to have been written by Apostle Paul while he was in prison in Rome (around AD 62), but more recently, it has been suggested that it was written between AD 80 and 100 by another writer using Paul's name and style.
The whole of the section Ephesians 1:3–23 consists in the original Greek of just two lengthy and complex sentences. [20] It ends with a fervent prayer for the further spiritual enrichment of the Ephesians. Ephesians 2:11–3:21. A description of the change in the spiritual position of Gentiles as a result of the work of Christ.
Summary of the reasons for thinking Ephesians is not by Paul: [44] The language and style are different. Ephesians contains 40 new words, e.g. 1:3 "heavenly places"; "family, or fatherhood" (3:15). 1:19 has four different words for "power"; Ephesians and Colossians use a different word for "reconcile" from Paul's word (Col 1:20, 22; Eph 2:16).
A third epistle to Corinth, written in between 1 and 2 Corinthians, also called the Severe Letter, referenced at 2 Corinthians 2:4 [18] and 2 Corinthians 7:8-9 [19] An earlier epistle to the Ephesians referenced at Ephesians 3:3-4 [20] A possible Pauline Epistle to the Laodiceans, [16] referenced at Colossians 4:16 [21]
4) speaks of the church as created before all things and of the world as formed for her sake; and in the newly discovered portion of the so-called Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians (c. 14) the writer speaks of the spiritual church as created before the sun and moon, as pre-existent like Christ Himself, and like him manifested in the ...
The cosmic Christ has also been of particular interest amongst Asian Christians. This was particularly poignant through debates that arose from the World Council of Churches meeting in New Delhi in 1961, when the Indian Paul D. Devanandan argued from Ephesians 1:10 that a cosmic Christ united all things to himself; this, he claimed, included non-Christian religions.
Thus, making a "positive confession" of God's promise and believing God's word stirs the power of resurrection which raised Christ from the dead (Ephesians 1:19–20, [18] 3:20), [19] and brings that promise to fulfilment. This teaching is interpreted from Mark 11:22–23. [20] A more recent variant of positive confession is "decree and declare ...