), The apostle supplies us with two figures to show the force and necessity of religious affection. But the view accepted in the E. V. is, on the whole, preferable (see note in Lange, Ephesians, p. 125). They thus become partakers of his life, so that it is Christ that liveth in them, Galatians 2:20. Fullerton.). I ask myself the question: Why don't I let Christ run my life? That the attempt to prove a God by scientific tests, applying physics strictly, can only reach a small way up. (2) The blessings of the church, make a list, 1:3-14. If we are to realise what St. Paul means when he speaks of us as a habitation of God through the Spirit, we may do well to consider what some of those things are which do daily fill our thoughts, and almost literally people our hearts. And since Jesus died for sinners, therefore God chose me, drew me, pardoned me, spoke peace to me. The rooting and grounding are expressed by the perf. (C. Girdlestone, M. He that buildeth on that foundation shall never be confounded. You remember it when you were a child, and now you are a man it does not seem to be any older! 17. of consequence; cf.Acts 5:3; Hebrews 6:10; Revelation 5:5; Revelation 16:9, etc. We must learn to carry about with us a consciousness of Christ's real presence. 4. And in the emptiness of the swept and garnished heart there is an invitation to the seven to come back again and fill it. Greek. And this is no more than we find often to be the case in worldly briefness, and in human learning. Show the privilege of having Christ to dwell in the heart, by considering what He does there. It is a common saying, and a perfectly true one, that small things will satisfy small minds; but I tell you that the converse or another view of that proposition is true: small things will make small minds. On this, as its only foundation, it rests. Some have even taken it as expressing the design of the prayer. Then to realize that these things are very real possibilities for the believer. If so, can we speak contemptuously or think harshly of one another? It does not mean that I will not have any sorrow. (47)— θλίψεσί μου ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν, in my afflictions for you) Ephesians 3:1.— δόξα) [your] glory spiritual; inasmuch as your faith is assisted thereby [1 Corinthians 4:10]. If a tree strikes its roots deep, the tree is secure--if the foundation of a building is deep, the building is secure; if I see the depths of God’s love, and the roots of my heart are struck deep into God’s love, there is abundant reason for my security. Win.-Moult., p. 715; Krüger, Sprachl., § 56, 9, 4; Buttm., Gr. dwell — abidingly make His abode (John 14:23). Yes. Она легко исчезает и уходит от них, поскольку не имеет глубоких корней. A creed is just like a philosopher’s telescope. Generally that growth is upward, as in 1 Corinthians 8:1 : “Knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;” or, as in Ephesians 4:16, where the body is said “to build itself up in love.” Here that growth is downward, deeper and deeper into the communion with God in Christ, as “faith is made perfect (or, efficient) by love.” As in relation to man, so also to God, love is at once the recognition of an existing unity between spirit and spirit, and a means—probably the only means—of making that unity energetic and deepening it continually. This is receiving Christ by faith. How strange are the revolutions taking place in society; and how different from what they were a few years ago. 8. Ephesians 4:22; Ephesians 4:24; 1 Peter 3:4. I saw all the coquetries and blinkings of that wonderful little tree--the witch, the fairy tree, of the forest. What can be of more importance than the knowledge of God?—Success, wealth, comfort, ease are not the best ends of life. Many (including Meyer, Winer, Buttm., AV, RV, etc.) In a word, we may pray for, and strive to be filled with, such a measure of the fulness of God and his grace, as God shall see fit to give, and as our capacities are or may be prepared to receive; God is not straitened towards us, let us not be straitened in ourselves: Open thy mouth wide, says God, and I will fill it. Ephesians 3:11. πρόθεσιν τῶν αἰώνων, the purpose of the ages [eternal purpose]) concerning the ages, and before the ages, 2 Timothy 1:9.— ἣν, which) This refers to πρόθεσιν, purpose.— ἡμῶν, our, of us) viz. Faith is simply the condition of that indwelling of Christ (comp. Are your faith and my faith big enough to be able to say to the Lord Jesus, "You come and take over full possession." The most beautiful object might be in the apartment of a blind man, and he not be sensible of its presence; or if by any means made aware of its nearness, he could have no delight in its beauty. He sets it at liberty from sin and Satan (Luke 11:1, etc). These qualities--heat and moisture--are indicated to us by certain instruments; and here is an instrument, the soul of man, existing in the power of a true regenerated love; and this is that which detects the presence, and is inspired by the touch, of the Divine nature, and bears witness to it. So, dear brethren, go to Christ like those two on the road to Emmaus; and as Fra Angelico has painted them on his convent wall, put out your hands and lay them on His, and say, “Abide with us. I. It is idle to infer from these words, that love is the foundation and root of our salvation. How then can you have a high Christian, an exalted Christian, an elevated experience? The love we are called upon to feel is not beyond our reach. You are "eager" to do God"s will. (Ephesians 3:17.) Ephesians 2:8), the opening of the door to Him that He may enter in. The love of God includes delight in His communion. We now look upon it as pointing out rather the result of the process of invigoration prayed for. (H. W. When Christians become lax in attendance, it is proof that Christ is no longer influencing them. (41) From what I have written above, you may, etc.— δύνασθε, you may) The word is modestly and ingenuously used.— ἀναγινώσκουτες, when you read) This book is very sublime, and yet it is put into the hands of all to be read.— νοῆσαι τὴν σύνεσίν μου, understand my knowledge [perceive my understanding in]) and therefore profit by me. Faith is the means by which he does this.”, has its roots in love, and love is the mortar that builds you, on the foundation which is Jesus Christ!” See, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament, Expository Notes with Practical Observations on the New Testament, Heinrich Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture, Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament, John Eadie's Commentary on Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians and Philippians, Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament, George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Hodge's Commentary on Romans, Ephesians and First Corintians, Commentary by J.C.Philpot on select texts of the Bible, Mitchell's Commentary on Selected New Testament Books, Stanley Derickson - Notes on Selected Books, Corinthians, First and Second, Theology of. Faith is the key to unlock the door of the heart for Christ to dwell with us. 2. He prays that they may be rooted and grounded in love; that is, that they might be so deeply possessed with the sense of God's love, that they might be the very habit of their souls, and rooted nature in them. I. the Father of Jesus Christ. III. “And to know the love of Christ, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” This is the very supreme of philosophy. “And that Christ, who bought you for God by his death and made these promises of God available to you, will make his home in your hearts! And that Christ. The love in which the roots of faith strike down for nourishment is not human but Divine. Ephesians 3:17. 17.That Christ may dwell. He reveals His love to it (Ephesians 3:17-19). ]— ἐν τῷ θεῷ, in God) An antithesis to creatures, even the most excellent, Ephesians 3:10.— τῷ τὰ πάντα κτίσαντι, who created all things) The creation of all things is the foundation of all the rest of the economy, most freely dispensed, according to the universal power of God. Would it not be a wonderful thing, would it not delight His heart and fill you and me with joy and blessing if we today would just put ourselves in His hands and say, "Lord, for today at least, I want you to run my life. 2. Then let me have God, and if I love Him I do have Him, and I stand with perfect confidence--in no strength of my own, with no sufficiency to think a good thought, but God undertakes for me. A gradation.— κατὰ, according to) Paul appeals to their and his experience. Any of you who can consult the original for yourselves will see that the apostle here uses a compound word which conveys the idea of intensity and of continuity. There is nothing in nature, aside from man, out of which we can develop these attributes of the Divine Being. You know, you say to me, "Why Mr. Mitchell, weren't these Christians? It looks like the colour of the mountain itself; it bears the tints of the neighbouring rocks. Sympathy is one of Christ's truest messengers. “You being rooted and grounded in love” (compare Ephesians 3:19), is in the Greek connected with this clause, not with the clause, “that ye may be able to comprehend.” “Rooted” is an image from a tree; “grounded” (Greek, “founder,” “having your foundations resting on”), from a building (compare Notes, see on Ephesians 2:20, Ephesians 2:21; Colossians 1:23; Colossians 2:7). “Unto him that hath shall be given.” It is Christ in the heart that makes the heart fit for Christ to dwell in the heart. desiring God].— μὴ ἐκκακεῖν, not to faint) that I may not prove wanting [that there be no defect on my part], but that I may speak boldly and allure many. And now the second observation with which I will trouble you before I come to deal with the thoughts of the verse is as to the connection of the last words of it. The love of God includes gratitude for His benefits. As the Christian system is not held by those who leave out the central figure, so every Christian system is imperfectly held by those who only hold it in a philosophical form. 1. 4. И Христа нельзя отделять от Духа, делая Его как бы мертвым и лишенным силы. That is, no intellection can ever follow the outgush of experience, and reproduce it in the form of ideas. Ephesians 1:3-17 English Standard Version (ESV) Spiritual Blessings in Christ. But that makes no difference. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, Be that as it may, at all events faith is here represented as the means or condition through which this dwelling takes effect. II. ), A wounded soldier boy was dying in a hospital, the lady who watched by his bedside said to him, “My dear boy, if this should be death that is coming upon you, are you ready to meet your God?” He answered, “I am ready, dear lady; for this has long been His dwelling place”; and as he spoke, he placed his hand upon his heart. tethemeliōmenoi- “founded” - as a building is on a foundation. Some never get away from the abc. Итак, заблуждаются те, кто думает иначе получить Дух Божий, нежели приняв Христа. If Christ is so expounded that such an experience is impossible, Christianity is destroyed in the destruction of the very fundamental idea of Christ. The multiplication of Bibles that stand upon bookshelves or lie upon tables is an easy matter, but to multiply copies of walking scriptures, in the form of holy men who can say, “Thy Word have I hid in my heart,” is much more difficult. Neither is this indwelling against our will. You cannot prove nor disprove by matter that which lies beyond matter; and if, through all the material universe, there is no sign nor hint of God, it does not make any difference in the truth of His spiritual existence. The relationship is so strong and close that each is said to dwell in the other! So now, in the second place, notice the open door through which the Christ comes in to dwell--“that He may dwell in your hearts by faith.” More accurately we may render “through faith,” and might even venture to suppose that the thought of faith as an open door through which Christ passes into the heart floated half distinctly before the apostle’s mind. There is a similar epithet found at Ephesians 3:10, manifold.— πλοῦτον, riches) Here heavenly riches are commended; presently after, wisdom, Ephesians 3:10. 1-2. Being rooted and grounded "in love" means that we place the spiritual interests of others ahead of what we may want (John 13:35). It is like some mathematical proposition, which cannot be assailed, and the whole problem is actually contained within it, and only wants to be worked out. Now this fullness of his is undiminishable, and consequently incommunicable. When God is truly influencing you, when His words are being allowed to "settle down" in our hearts the following happens: You think about God and His will all the time (Colossians 3:17). Our apostle here proceeds with affectionate ardour to pray for further spiritual blessings on the behalf of his beloved Ephesians: 1. I say God is absolute, and controls all things. Why don't I yield myself so much to Him that His will and His purpose are the paramount things in my life? By it Christ may dwell in your hearts and mine through faith; to the end that, being rooted and grounded in love, we may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. But be sure of one thing, the purpose of God is going to be fulfilled. There is an argument that can be constructed that will satisfy--those that it will satisfy; but it is only a little way that it can go. What created understanding can know what is unknowable, or comprehend what is incomprehensible? A neighbor is coming in to see you. Contrast Matthew 13:6; Matthew 13:21. Rooting and grounding are consequences of the strengthening of the Spirit and of Christ's indwelling. You are constantly talking to God in prayer (1 Thessalonians 5:17). In Ephesians 3:19 the love is at length expressly mentioned; but in Ephesians 3:18 the fulness of God in itself; but this very fulness is also tinctured with love. He has not the love he ought to have for any object; he is narrowed up into his own selfishness. God and His will is always placed first (Matthew 6:33). It holds the remnants of its ancient enemy aloft as trophies of its victory. The common tests of life will still be mine; but, instead of meeting those tests and trials in one's own strength, we do it in His strength. Permanent, and not temporary. (C. Girdlestone, M. The love of God is the essence of religion. The Apostle, therefore, says, "But all things that are reproved, (margin, "discovered,") are made manifest by the light, for whatever does make manifest is light" ( Ephesians 5:13). Ведь многие только слабо ее затронуты. Drop the pebble in the water, and who can tell how wide its ripples will extend in the stream? by faith — Greek, “through faith,” which opens the door of the heart to Jesus (John 3:20). By faith we not only acknowledge that Christ suffered and rose from the dead on our account, but, accepting the offers which he makes of himself, we possess and enjoy him as our Savior. 1. Let it be granted that faith, appropriating God’s love, sustains the living, the question remains, Who quickens the dead? 3. Now, you can go on and multiply that and amplify it, but what he's after is this: Does Jesus Christ have the run of the house? λ.] Here, in the centre of the circular mass, the main stem was pointing perpendicularly downward when the tree was young, perhaps a century ago; but ere it had gone far in that direction, it had struck against a stone. To the stability of the former a root is necessary, proportioned to the expansion of the branches; to the stability of the latter a foundation is necessary, corresponding to the magnitude of the superstructure. He reconciles it--God and man (2 Corinthians 5:19-21). As a building, their foundation is to be laid in this love. I would not underrate the value of an intellectual conception of Christ; but I would hold it as an auxiliary, and as a guide. It is better that the intellectual perception should be full and clear; nevertheless, a man can embrace Christ by the heart without the help of the understanding, far better than he can embrace Christ by the understanding without the aid of the heart. All goodness and all beauty will be its fruit. 138-139). It is not to be weakened down into any notion of participation in His likeness, sympathy with His character, submission to His influence, following His example, listening to His instruction, or the like. “In your hearts”: “The center of feeling, thinking, and willing” (Gr. It implies congeniality. How shall we prepare the chamber for such a guest? A. I. 8:9; 1Кор. Кроме того, Павел указывает, каким способом достигается такое благо. Do you not feel that it is utterly uninfluential, independent of that? You bring Christ into your heart by faith, without any work at all; you keep Him there by a faith which produces holiness. It is only by faith that Christ can enter the heart; it is only as the object of faith that He can be the object of love, and faith will be in proportion to spiritual intelligence, and spiritual intelligence in proportion to faith. Mark, then, the apostle’s desire here that all Christian people may possess the indwelling Christ, To begin with, let me say in the plainest, simplest, strongest way that I can, that that dwelling of Christ in the believing heart is to be regarded as being a plain literal fact. Sometimes when yon look upon the shore, the sea extends before you smooth and glassy, and the shore is covered with slimy weeds, and by and by you walk that way again, and the great sea has come up, and the shore you looked upon is no more to be seen. And what is the love that promises that stability? In this love they are described (by two perf. In Christ, but not elsewhere, God is at once just, and the justifier of the sinful who believe. 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, Jesus Christ is the brightness of His Father’s glory, and the express image of His person; He is the holy one and the just. The love of Christ to us always exceeds our knowledge; and so in Ephesians 3:20 the power of God exceeds our knowledge.— ἵνα, that) without a conjunction; comp. Now the “root.” I cast my affections down into the character and the being of God; I wind them about His attributes; I strike them into His promises; I drive them deep into His faithfulness. But now let us look at two or three particulars connected with my more immediate text, which I want to be fixed upon your minds. The κατοικῆσαι of this verse has, as we have said, its origin in the κατοικητήριον of Ephesians 2:22. We are brought to consider the sphere and result of the Advent. the use of in Matthew 12:45 ; Luke 11:26 ; 2 Peter 3:13 ; and also its application to Christ Himself in another relation in Colossians 1:19 ), is also embraced in the scope of Paul’s prayer. Два употребленных им сравнения говорят, сколь твердой и постоянной должна быть в нас любовь. We're all perfected in Christ on the ground of His grace, and He wants to meet my daily need according to His riches in glory. Thoroughly established in love, having it not as an uncertain feeling changing with every change of experience, but as the constant principle of their life” (Gr. ), Paul Jeanne ascribes amazing fertility to the soil of Mentone, and backs his assertions by a story which reads like a legend. Brooks.). The Chiasmus must be noticed: in the first sentence we have, that He would grant to you; in the second, to dwell; in the third, in love—that you may be able: in the fourth, that you might be filled. Now, what a proof this is that Christ dwells in the heart by faith, and that the light in which we see him, is the light with which he has enlightened our understanding, and himself dwells in it. The expression “rooted and grounded” (i.e., founded) contains the same mixture of metaphor as in 1 Corinthians 3:9, of the tree and the building—a mixture so natural as to pass into common usage. Why, let God be for me--I say from my inmost soul, let God be for me, and I care not whether man or devil is for or against me, comparatively. p. 314). That not only makes a man a Christian, but brings him into the central point of the Christian system. Christ dwells in us by faith, because it is by faith we perceive His presence, His excellence and His glory, and because it is by faith we appropriate and reciprocate the manifestations of His love’ (Hodge). Suppose you and I do that today, won't you? It is so much of us as is godlike that gives us the evidence of God. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. That love will be the motive of all service, it will underlie as the productive cause, all fruitfulness. Use your instruments to minister good to man, to make the best use of the little you have. But He wants us to enjoy His fellowship and His power down here; so he prays that we might be made strong by His Spirit in the inner Prayer of Manasseh, and he prays that Christ may dwell down in our hearts by faith. Who can tell what shall be God’s minister--the little bird in the air, the snow in the field, the lilies that are dressed better than Solomon! We have not seen it, and are afraid that to inquire for it in the aforesaid Rue would raise a laugh at our expense. "Love" (Colossians 3:14; 1 John 4:7-8), the first-fruit of the Spirit, flowing from Christ's love realized in the soul, is the basis on which should rest the further comprehension of all the vastness of Christ's love. Christ wants to run the house, your life and my life. 1 Corinthians 11:3 - But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ. The outward condition does not make a man like Christ; but the inward spirit. My intellect rests upon its “foundation”; and my heart draws its tenderness from its “root.” I can edify myself in my “grounding,” and I am sanctified in my “rooting.” I grow by resting, and by double processes my inner life is made and assured. He wants to work out His purpose and His will in our hearts and lives. If they are not filled with good, some evil spirit will enter in, and he, not Christ, will dwell there. No knowledge is worth having which is not in some degree based on love.—You cannot teach anything till the learner is either interested or realises its importance to himself; since by so doing he shows a desire to have a mastery of something which he understands to be a prime necessity. Note, 2. Посему всякий раз, ведя речь о совершенстве святых, Павел учит, что оно состоит их этих двух частей. (C. H. Don't let Him have just one room in your house. It will be a life of joy, of blessing, peace, of power, of usefulness. You treat others in the same way that God treats them, which means that you love your brethren fervently (1 Peter 1:22). Dr. Iron-side of our past generation was one of God's great Bible teachers. Be persuaded that Christ Jesus, the Son of God, the express image of the Father’s glory, died for sinners, died for you. 135-136). That ye, being rooted and grounded in love: either he means: 1. “The love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them and rose again.” Thus have I endeavoured to show what the nature of the principle is which the apostle prays for in behalf of the believing Ephesians--that it is a fervent, constant, intelligent, and enlightened attachment to the Lord Jesus, that Christ might dwell in their hearts. “Rooted”: “So that having your roots deep and your foundations strong in love” (Wey). So here the two words probably express the one simple idea of being securely settled and deeply founded. But still, while many a similar tree has been torn up by the roots, this old oak has shaken its fists at the storm! But it is the manly way of taking hold of the Lord Jesus Christ by the enthusiasm of love, and making Him the supreme object of our desire, and of our allegiance. The omission of the connecting is no insuperable objection to the former; for cases of asyndeton are sufficiently common. To be in the heart of anyone is to be the object of cordial affection; to dwell in His heart is to be the object of that affection constantly and habitually; and to dwell in the heart by faith is to be the object of an intelligent and enlightened affection. This clause also depends on that you may be able. ), The being of a grace must go before the increase of it; for there is no growth without life, no building without a foundation. “To the end that ye”: “Those in whose hearts Christ has made His abode are ‘rooted and well founded in love’” (Bruce p. 327). 7. That is a foundation. Ephesians 3:5. ὃ, which) This refers to Ephesians 3:3, as the repetition of the verb γνωρίζω, I make known, indicates.— ἑτέραις γενεαῖς, in other ages) Time in the ablative, as Acts 13:36.— οὐκ ἐγνωρίσθνη, was not made known) He does not say οὐκ ἀπεκαλύφθη, was not revealed. The question to be asked again is this: ‘Is the indwelling literally personal referring to direct possession of another"s personhood?’ Reading the passages impresses the reader with the representative character of divine indwelling. Look at yonder castle, built upon the spur of the mountain. Again reference is made to the comment on this under Galatians 5:23. Strong now in that acquired strength, it increased its bulk and rent the rock asunder. (3) The elements and characteristics of the new life, 4:25-32. We're all in school down here. Matthew 16:17. The meaning of His dwelling is-, διὰ τῆς πίστεως—“by faith”-your faith. Are you afraid of what God might do if you do yield yourself entirely to Him, afraid what God might do with us if we really put ourselves in His hands? What generations have rested under its shadows, and what generations have been carried past it to yonder churchyard! Christ dwells, or tries to dwell, in the hearts of all of us. He sups with it, and it with Him (Revelation 3:20). Ye are built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ being the Head-stone of the corner; that spiritual building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple, for a habitation of God: and the prayer now is, that compactness and solidity may be granted to them by the Spirit, so as that in them the primary design of such a temple may be realized, and “Christ may dwell in their hearts”-Christ by His Spirit, and not as Fritzsche coldly and tastelessly describes it-mens quam Christus postulat. A widowed mother lives in a cottage by the sea; her only boy is a sailor; she has not seen him for years; for years he has been far away, sailing from land to land; but her heart is full of him; she thinks of him by day, she dreams of him by night; how tenderly she handles every relic that he left behind him when he went away; how the glass in her spectacles grows dim as she reads his letters; his name is never missed out from her prayers; and many and many a time, when she is busy about her daily work, the thought of her boy will flash into her heart like a beam of golden sunlight; the stars speak about him, and so does every white-sailed ship away out on the sea. Comp. Delitzsch, Bib. It is useless to attempt to stop the thought by a word. Sphere and result of the advent. Ex. By Chiasmus the order of the ideas is, love [Ephesians 3:17], breadth [length, depth, height, Ephesians 3:18]: [then in Ephesians 3:19] love, fulness; of these four, the third corresponds to the first, therefore the second to the fourth. Ведь Дух нельзя найти где-то вне Христа, на Котором, как сказано, Он почил полностью. They take up, they drink in, the nature of the love they live in;--they are always assimilating themselves to it, and they send up its sweet savour by little, silent threads, which are always running to the fountain of life. The sweet songbirds and the honey-making bees are said always to desert a neighbourhood before a pestilence breaks out in it. God, at the beginning, formed man to be his temple, and while in a state of purity he inhabited this temple; when the temple became defiled, God left it. Contempt for a soul in which Christ is not ashamed to dwell? 3. 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