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Text -- Ephesians 1:15 (NET)

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Prayer for Wisdom and Revelation
1:15 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Robertson: Eph 1:15 - -- And which ye shew toward all the saints ( kai tēn eis pantas tous hagious ). The words "ye show"do not occur in the Greek. The Textus Receptus has ...

And which ye shew toward all the saints ( kai tēn eis pantas tous hagious ).

The words "ye show"do not occur in the Greek. The Textus Receptus has ten agapēn (the love) before tēn supported by D G K L Syr., Lat., Copt., but Aleph A B P Origen do not have the word agapēn . It could have been omitted, but is probably not genuine. The use of the article referring to pistin and the change from en to eis probably justifies the translation "which ye shew toward."

Vincent: Eph 1:15 - -- Your faith ( τὴν καθ ' ὑμᾶς πίστιν ) The Greek phrase is nowhere else used by Paul. Lit., as Rev., the faith which ...

Your faith ( τὴν καθ ' ὑμᾶς πίστιν )

The Greek phrase is nowhere else used by Paul. Lit., as Rev., the faith which is among you . Expositors endeavor to make a distinction between this and Paul's common phrase ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν your faith , but they differ widely, and the distinction is at best doubtful.

Vincent: Eph 1:15 - -- Love Omit.

Love

Omit.

Vincent: Eph 1:15 - -- Unto all the saints ( τὴν εἰς πάντας τοὺς ἁγίους ) Lit., that which is toward all , etc. Love being ...

Unto all the saints ( τὴν εἰς πάντας τοὺς ἁγίους )

Lit., that which is toward all , etc. Love being omitted, this refers to faith: faith which displays its work and fruits toward fellow Christians. See on Phm 1:5, Phm 1:6. Compare work of faith , 1Th 1:3. Though love is not mentioned, yet faith works by love. Gal 5:6.

Wesley: Eph 1:15 - -- That is, of their perseverance and increase therein.

That is, of their perseverance and increase therein.

JFB: Eph 1:15 - -- Because ye are in Christ and sealed by His Spirit (Eph 1:13-14).

Because ye are in Christ and sealed by His Spirit (Eph 1:13-14).

JFB: Eph 1:15 - -- On my part, in return for God's so great benefits to you.

On my part, in return for God's so great benefits to you.

JFB: Eph 1:15 - -- Ever since I have heard. Not implying that he had only heard of their conversion: an erroneous argument used by some against the address of this Epist...

Ever since I have heard. Not implying that he had only heard of their conversion: an erroneous argument used by some against the address of this Epistle to the Ephesians (see on Eph 1:1); but referring to the report he had heard since he was with them, as to their Christian graces. So in the case of Philemon, his "beloved fellow laborer" (Phm 1:1), he uses the same words (Phm 1:4-5).

JFB: Eph 1:15 - -- Rather, as Greek, "the faith among you," that is, which many (not all) of you have.

Rather, as Greek, "the faith among you," that is, which many (not all) of you have.

JFB: Eph 1:15 - -- Of whatever name, simply because they are saints. A distinguishing characteristic of true Christianity (Eph 6:24). "Faith and love he often joins toge...

Of whatever name, simply because they are saints. A distinguishing characteristic of true Christianity (Eph 6:24). "Faith and love he often joins together. A wondrous pair" [CHRYSOSTOM]. Hope is added, Eph 1:18.

Clarke: Eph 1:15 - -- Faith in the Lord Jesus - Cordial reception of the Christian religion, amply proved by their love to all the saints - to all the Christians. Perhaps...

Faith in the Lord Jesus - Cordial reception of the Christian religion, amply proved by their love to all the saints - to all the Christians. Perhaps love here implies, not only the kind affection so called, but also all the fruits of love - benevolence, and kind offices of every description.

Calvin: Eph 1:15 - -- 15.Wherefore I also This thanksgiving was not simply an expression of his ardent love to the Ephesians. He congratulated them before God, that the op...

15.Wherefore I also This thanksgiving was not simply an expression of his ardent love to the Ephesians. He congratulated them before God, that the opinion which he had formed respecting them was highly favorable. Observe here, that under faith and love Paul includes generally the whole excellence of Christian character. He uses the expression, faith in the Lord Jesus, 117 because Christ is the aim and object of faith. Love ought to embrace all men, but here the saints are particularly mentioned; because love, when properly regulated, begins with them, and is afterwards extended to all others. If our love must have a view to God, the nearer any man approaches to God, the stronger unquestionably must be his claims to our love.

TSK: Eph 1:15 - -- after : Col 1:3, Col 1:4; Phm 1:5 faith : Gal 5:6; 1Th 1:3; 2Th 1:3; 1Ti 1:5, 1Ti 1:14 love : Psa 16:3; Col 1:4; 1Th 4:9; Heb 6:10; 1Pe 1:22; 1Jo 3:17...

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Eph 1:15 - -- Wherefore, I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus - This is one of the passages usually relied on by those who suppose that this...

Wherefore, I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus - This is one of the passages usually relied on by those who suppose that this Epistle was not written to the Ephesians. The argument is, that he writes to them as if they were strangers to him, and that it is not language such as would be used in addressing a people among whom he had spent three years; see the introduction, section 5. But this inference is not conclusive. Paul had been some years absent from Ephesus when this Epistle was written. In the difficult communication in those times between distant places, it is not to be supposed that he would hear often from them. Perhaps he had heard nothing after the time when he bade farewell to the elders of Ephesus at Miletus Acts 20, until the time here referred to. It would be, therefore, a matter of great interest with him to hear from them; and when in some way intelligence was brought to him at Rome of a very gratifying character about their growth in piety, he says that his anxiety was relieved, and that he did not cease to give thanks for what he had heard, and to commend them to God in prayer.

Poole: Eph 1:15 - -- After I heard he was an eye-witness of their first believing, but here he speaks of their increase and constancy in the faith since, of which he had ...

After I heard he was an eye-witness of their first believing, but here he speaks of their increase and constancy in the faith since, of which he had heard by others.

Of your faith in the Lord Jesus i.e. not barely a belief of Christ’ s excellencies, but a belief of his being their Saviour, their receiving and relying on him as such, and so a believing in him as the immediate object of their faith, and him by whom they believed in God, 1Pe 1:21 .

And love unto all the saints this is added to show the truth of their faith, which works by love.

Love to the saints is mentioned, as an evidence of their love to God; and to all the saints to show the sincerity of that love, in its not being partial, but respecting all saints, and therefore saints as saints.

PBC: Eph 1:15 - -- No sweeter intelligence ever reaches the heart of God’s minister than to hear that his fellow-men have been delivered from the bonds of sin. With wh...

No sweeter intelligence ever reaches the heart of God’s minister than to hear that his fellow-men have been delivered from the bonds of sin. With what overflowing hearts did Mary and Martha behold their brother walking home from the tomb; and so, when the Lord’s servants see lost and ruined sinners rescued from the fetters of sin and delivered from its taint and guilt, their first feeling is thankfulness to God for each new evidence of his mercy and good will. How aptly Paul describes the fruits of grace that he recognized in these brethren, and such evidences we are taught by this Scripture, should accompany a knowledge of salvation. " Faith in the Lord Jesus and love unto all the Saints," are the best tokens that men can give of knowing the Lord. Grace so frames their hearts that they became knit together in love. When Paul heard of the faith and love of the Ephesian brethren, his mind became at once earnest and loving on their behalf, and as the two sisters, on seeing their brother alive and well, thought of gratitude to none but Jesus, so Paul made mention of the Saints at Ephesus before God with unceasing thankfulness, indeed (as with the Corinthians), his heart was enlarged until his feeling was to live and die with them.

Eld. James Oliphant

Haydock: Eph 1:15 - -- Wherefore....hearing of your constancy in the faith of Christ, and of your charitable love to all the saints, or faithful, I give always than...

Wherefore....hearing of your constancy in the faith of Christ, and of your charitable love to all the saints, or faithful, I give always thanks to God; I pray that God may be more revealed to you, that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, (ver. 18) that you may know what ground you have to hope in the transcendent greatness of God's almighty power, who raised Christ from the dead, (ver. 20) and set him on his right hand in heaven, above all the choirs and orders of blessed spirits, putting all things under his feet, making him, as man, head over all his Church militant on earth, and triumphant in heaven: which Church is his mystical body, who is filled all in all, (ver. 23) or as others have translated, who filleth all in all; the sense is, that the glory of Christ, as head of all, is filled and increased by the salvation and happiness of all his chosen members, and of all his elect, to the end of the world. (Witham)

Gill: Eph 1:15 - -- Wherefore I also,.... As well as others: after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus; who is the immediate object of faith, and a very proper and...

Wherefore I also,.... As well as others:

after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus; who is the immediate object of faith, and a very proper and suitable one; having every thing in him that is agreeable to the case and circumstances of those that trust in him. And the grace of faith, which terminates on him, is a seeing him, a beholding the glory of his person, and the fulness of his grace; a going to him, and venturing on him; a laying hold upon him, and embracing of him; a committing all unto him, and a leaning and depending on him, and a living upon him, and a walking on in him.

And love unto all the saints: whether Jew or Gentile, rich or poor, greater or lesser believers, of meaner gifts, or larger abilities; and which love was unfeigned, fervent, active, and laborious; and which is the evidence of regeneration, and without which a profession is in vain. These two graces, faith and love, are inseparable; they always go together, and are to be found in the same persons; and where they are, they cannot be hid, as they were not in these Ephesians; their faith was professed by them, and was made public, and their love showed itself in deeds, as well as in words, to the saints: hence the apostle came to hear of them both, upon the certain relation of others; for these things were come abroad, and were talked of; See Gill on Col 1:3. See Gill on Col 1:4. See Gill on Phm 1:4. See Gill on Phm 1:5.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Eph 1:15 Ì46 א* A B P 33 1739 1881 2464 Hier lack “your love” (τὴν ἀγάπην, thn agaphn), w...

Geneva Bible: Eph 1:15 ( 17 ) Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, ( 17 ) He returns to the former account of the ...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Eph 1:1-23 - --1 After the salutation,3 and thanksgiving for the Ephesians,4 he treats of our election,6 and adoption by grace;11 which is the true and proper founta...

Combined Bible: Eph 1:15 - --Faith, when given expression leads to an experience of rest. That experience occurs whenever a believer walks in confidence that God is working His b...

MHCC: Eph 1:15-23 - --God has laid up spiritual blessings for us in his Son the Lord Jesus; but requires us to draw them out and fetch them in by prayer. Even the best Chri...

Matthew Henry: Eph 1:15-23 - -- We have come to the last part of this chapter, which consists of Paul's earnest prayer to God in behalf of these Ephesians. We should pray for the p...

Barclay: Eph 1:15-23 - --The supremely important part, the second great step in Paul's argument, lies at the very end of this passage; but there are certain things we must ...

Barclay: Eph 1:15-23 - --In this passage we see what Paul asks for a Church which he loves and which is doing well. (i) He prays for the Spirit of Wisdom. The word he uses fo...

Barclay: Eph 1:15-23 - --We come to the last two verses of this chapter, and in them Paul has one of the most adventurous and most uplifting thoughts that any man has ever ha...

Constable: Eph 1:3--4:1 - --II. THE CHRISTIAN'S CALLING 1:3--3:21 ". . . the first three chapters are one long prayer, culminating in the gr...

Constable: Eph 1:3--2:11 - --A. Individual calling 1:3-2:10 Paul began the body of his letter by revealing the spiritual blessings th...

Constable: Eph 1:15-23 - --2. The means: knowledge 1:15-23 Having reviewed his readers' blessings in Christ, Paul next pray...

Constable: Eph 1:15-16 - --Commendation 1:15-16 As was his custom, Paul first commended his readers for what they were doing well. Then he told them what his prayer requests for...

College: Eph 1:1-23 - --EPHESIANS 1 I. DOCTRINE: GOD'S PLAN FOR SALVATION (1:1-3:21) A. GOD'S BLESSINGS (1:1-23) 1. Salutation (1:1-2) 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus...

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Introduction / Outline

Robertson: Ephesians (Book Introduction) The Epistle to the Ephesians From Rome a.d. 63 By Way of Introduction There are some problems of a special nature that confront us about the so-...

JFB: Ephesians (Book Introduction) THE headings (Eph 1:1, and Eph 3:1, show that this Epistle claims to be that of Paul. This claim is confirmed by the testimonies of IRENÆUS, [Against...

JFB: Ephesians (Outline) INSCRIPTION: ORIGIN OF THE CHURCH IN THE FATHER'S ETERNAL COUNSEL, AND THE SON'S BLOODSHEDDING: THE SEALING OF IT BY THE SPIRIT. THANKSGIVING AND PRA...

TSK: Ephesians 1 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Eph 1:1, After the salutation, Eph 1:3, and thanksgiving for the Ephesians, Eph 1:4, he treats of our election, Eph 1:6, and adoption by ...

Poole: Ephesians 1 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 1 Ephesus was the most considerable city of the lesser Asia; famous, first for sin, witchcraft, Act 19:19 , idolatry (especially the worshi...

MHCC: Ephesians (Book Introduction) This epistle was written when St. Paul was a prisoner at Rome. The design appears to be to strengthen the Ephesians in the faith of Christ, and to giv...

MHCC: Ephesians 1 (Chapter Introduction) (Eph 1:1-8) A salutation, and an account of saving blessings, as prepared in God's eternal election, as purchased by Christ's blood. (Eph 1:9-14) And...

Matthew Henry: Ephesians (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Epistle of St. Paul to the Ephesians Some think that this epistle to the Ephesians was a circular l...

Matthew Henry: Ephesians 1 (Chapter Introduction) In this chapter we have, I. The introduction to the whole epistle, which is much the same as in others (Eph 1:1, Eph 1:2). II. The apostle's than...

Barclay: Ephesians (Book Introduction) A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE LETTERS OF PAUL The Letters Of Paul There is no more interesting body of documents in the New Testament than the letter...

Barclay: Ephesians 1 (Chapter Introduction) The Purpose Of God (Eph_1:1-14) 1:1-14 This is a letter from Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, to God's consecrated peop...

Constable: Ephesians (Book Introduction) Introduction Historical background Almost all Christians believed in the Pauline autho...

Constable: Ephesians (Outline) Outline I. Salutation 1:1-2 II. The Christian's calling 1:3-3:21 A. Indi...

Constable: Ephesians Ephesians Bibliography Abbot, T. K. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistles to the Ephesians and t...

Haydock: Ephesians (Book Introduction) THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL, THE APOSTLE, TO THE EPHESIANS. INTRODUCTION. Ephesus was a famous city, the metropolis of Asia Minor, upon the Ægean...

Gill: Ephesians (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO EPHESIANS The city of Ephesus is, by Pliny a, called the other light of Asia; Miletus was one, and Ephesus the other: it was the me...

Gill: Ephesians 1 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO EPHESIANS 1 In this chapter are contained the inscription of the epistle, the salutation of the persons to whom it is written, the ...

College: Ephesians (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION We are saved by grace through faith! We do not earn our salvation - it is the gift of God. This is the shocking good news of Ephesians. ...

College: Ephesians (Outline) OUTLINE I. DOCTRINE: God's Plan for Salvation - Eph 1:1-3:21 A. God's Blessings - 1:1-23 1. Salutation - 1:1-2 2. Present Blessings in Ch...

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