Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE

EDITED BY THE REV.
W. ROBERTSON NICOLL, M.A., LL.D.
_Editor of "The Expositor," etc._

THE EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS

BY THE REV. PROFESSOR
G. G. FINDLAY, B.A.
HEADINGLEY COLLEGE, LEEDS

London
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
27, PATERNOSTER ROW

MDCCCXCVIII

THE
EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS

BY THE REV. PROFESSOR
G. G. FINDLAY, B.A.
HEADINGLEY COLLEGE, LEEDS

THIRD EDITION

London
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
27, PATERNOSTER ROW

MDCCCXCVIII

_Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury._

CONTENTS.

_INTRODUCTION._

CHAPTER i. 1, 2.

CHAPTER I.

THE WRITER AND READERS.
PAGE
Contrast of Galatians and Ephesians--Pauline qualities of
Ephesians: intellectual, historical, theological, spiritual,
ethical--The Idea of the Church--The Person of
Christ--Ephesians and Colossians--Style of
Ephesians--Circular Hypothesis--Epistle from
Laodicea--Designation of the Readers--Faithful Brethren 3

_PRAISE AND PRAYER._

CHAPTER i. 3-19.

CHAPTER II.

THE ETERNAL PURPOSE.

The Apostle's Hymn of Praise--Blessed be God!--Blessing
spiritual, heavenly, Christian--In the Beginning the
Election of Grace--The World and its Founder--Redemption
embedded in Creation--God's prescient
Choice--Our Holiness His Purpose--Divine Adoption--Who
are the Elect? 21

CHAPTER III.

THE BESTOWMENT OF GRACE.

Structure of the Paragraph--Grace an Experience--Christ the
Beloved--Forgiveness and its Price--The Value of
Forgiveness--Wisdom a Gift of Grace--The Gospel as an
intellectual Force--God's Will the Goal of human
Thought--Sonship and Heritage--The Fulness of the Times--The
Christian Inventory of the Universe--Reconciliation and
Reconstitution--Gathering in and Gathering out 34

CHAPTER IV.

THE FINAL REDEMPTION.

Mutual Inheritance--Jewish and Gentile Heirs--Uses of the
Seal--The Stamp of Sanctity--Promise fulfilled and to be
fulfilled--Hearing and Believing--Salvation by the
Truth--Salvation for the Gentiles--Faith and the Holy
Spirit--The two Redemptions--The encumbered Property--The
Earnest of our consummate Life 50

CHAPTER V.

FOR THE EYES OF THE HEART.

Thanksgiving for the Readers--The God of Christ, the Father
of Glory--Christian Enlightenment--Seeing with the
Heart--What is our Hope?--God's Wealth in Men--The true
Standard of Value--The Power of Christ's Resurrection 65

THE DOCTRINE.

CHAPTER i. 20--iii. 13.

CHAPTER VI.

WHAT GOD WROUGHT IN THE CHRIST.

Prayer and Teaching--Historical Effect of Christ's
Resurrection--The Stages of His Exaltation--Christianity
without Miracles--The efficient Cause of Christianity--The
perfect Resurrection--The First-begotten out of the
Dead--The Risen One, the Holy One--Resurrection and
Ascension--Ascension to Rule--Christ and the Angels--Christ
glorified God's Gift to the Church--Christ the Fulness of
God 81

CHAPTER VII.

FROM DEATH TO LIFE.

Raised with Christ--Sin is Death--Jesus Christ in a dead
World--Alive in Body, dead in Spirit--Religious
Difficulties--Antipathy to God--The Power of the Air--God's
Anger against Sinners--The Soul's Awaking--Consciousness of
God--Fellowship in Salvation 95

CHAPTER VIII.

SAVED FOR AN END.

Beginning and End of God's Plan--Mercy, Love, Kindness,
Grace and Gift--Not of Works--Boasting excluded--Evangelical
Assurance--In the heavenly Places--Grace a
Task-master--Creation and Redemption--The apostolic Church
and the coming Times 109

CHAPTER IX.

THE FAR AND NEAR.

Wherefore remember!--Sudden and gradual Conversion--The
Gentile World: Godless, hopeless, Christless--Away with the
Atheists!--The double Pessimism--The Uncircumcision--Nigh in
the Blood of Christ--Reunion in Guilt and in Pardon 120

CHAPTER X.

THE DOUBLE RECONCILIATION.

The Jewish War--The two Parties in the Church--The Jewish
Enmity typical--The new Christian Humanity--The Church in
the first Century and the nineteenth--Hindrances to Unity:
external, internal--The Ground of Reconciliation--Enemies of
God--The Atonement of the Cross--Moral Communism--Personal
Faith--The Fraternization of Mankind 131

CHAPTER XI.

GOD'S TEMPLE IN HUMANITY.

The Divine Occupant--The Service of Man and of God--One
Temple and many Buildings--The Variety of the apostolic
Church--The primitive Catholicism--Church and Dissent--Union
by Approximation--Our Lord's Prayer for Unity--The apostolic
Basis--The Builder Spirit--The sure Foundation Stone 143

CHAPTER XII.

THE SECRET OF THE AGES.

St Paul's Style of Composition--Christ the Mystery of
God--Christ in the Old Testament--The Exploration of
Christ--The Portion of the Gentiles in Israel--The Organs of
the new Revelation--The unique Office and Influence of the
Apostle Paul 155

CHAPTER XIII.

EARTH TEACHING HEAVEN.

Christ the Bond of Angels and Men--Our Lord and
theirs--Jesus of Nazareth the Lord of the Ages--The Reality
of the Angels--Their Interest in the Church--The Peculiarity
of the human Problem--The Docility of the heavenly
Potentates--The angelic Standpoint--The Grandeur of
Christianity inspires Courage 167

_PRAYER AND PRAISE._

CHAPTER iii. 14-21.

CHAPTER XIV.

THE COMPREHENSION OF CHRIST.

Contents of St Paul's Prayer--The Father of Angels and of
Men--Strength of Spirit and of the Spirit--Christ abiding in
the Heart--Christ and the Christ--Christ's Claim on the
Intellect--Neglect of Theology--Dimensions of God's
Building--Strength to grasp the Magnitude of
Christianity--The true Broad Churchman 183

CHAPTER XV.

KNOWING THE UNKNOWABLE.

Knowledge in the Growth--Paul's Study of the Love of
Christ--Christ's manifested Love--God's Fulness our
final Aim--The Fulness more than Love--Praise out-soaring
Prayer--God's Gifts beyond our Requests--The
Divine Power immanent in Men--The Inspirer of Prayer
its Fulfiller--The Union of the Church and Christ in
God's Praise--The eternal Glory 197

_THE EXHORTATION.
ON CHURCH LIFE._

CHAPTER iv. 1-16.

CHAPTER XVI.

THE FUNDAMENTAL UNITIES.

The Prisoner in the Lord--The Foes of Church Peace:
Low-mindedness, Ambition, Resentfulness--The Basis of Unity:
sevenfold, threefold--One Body despite Divisions--One Spirit
makes one Body--Unity of Life and Hope--One Lord in all
Churches--Baptism a Sign of Christ's Rule, the Seal of a
corporate Life--The one God, and the many 213

CHAPTER XVII.

THE MEASURE OF THE GIFT OF CHRIST.

Unity in Diversities--Christ the Administrator--The
Ascension of David and of David's Son--Height and
Breadth--The Giving of Jesus--Christ's Descent and
Ascent--The Warfare of Christ--The Spoils of His
Victory--The Enlistment of His Prisoners--Apostles and
Prophets, Evangelists and Pastors--Paul, Augustine, Luther,
Knox, Wesley--The Demands of the Future--Individual
Responsibility 227

CHAPTER XVIII.

THE GROWTH OF THE CHURCH.

The Aim of the Christian Ministry--A perfect
Manhood--Sleight or Sport?--Junctures of Supply--Reunion in
the Knowledge of the Son of God--The Stature of Christ our
Standard--The Dangers of Childishness--Speculative
Error--Gnosticism and Agnosticism--Conditions of
Safety--Church Organization--The Framework of the Body of
Christ--Its Continuity of Tissue 244

_ON CHRISTIAN MORALS._

CHAPTER iv. 17-v. 21.

CHAPTER XIX.

THE WALK OF THE GENTILES.

The old World and the old Man--Impotence of Gentile
Reason--Science and Pessimism--Loss of the Life of
God--Ignorance the Mother of Indevotion--Induration of
Heart--Impudicity of Paganism 261

CHAPTER XX.

THE TWO HUMAN TYPES.

Defective Views of Christ amongst Paul's Readers--The
historical Jesus the true Christ--Paul and the Tradition of
Jesus--Jesus the human Model--Nero a Type of the Pagan
Order--The Fraud of Sin--The Growth and the Birth of the new
Man--Righteousness and Holiness 275

CHAPTER XXI.

DISCARDED VICES.

The seven Gentile Sins--Truthfulness and the Truth--The
Perils of Anger--The Antidote to Theft--Sinfulness of vain
Speech--Malice and its Brood--Imitation of the Divine
Love--Filthiness and Jesting--The golden Leprosy 290

CHAPTER XXII.

DOCTRINE AND ETHICS.

The Intrinsic and Experimental in Morals--Originality of
Christian Ethics--Ethical Art and Science--Four Principles
of Pauline Ethics--Personality and Morals--Ethical
Character of Christ's Forgiveness--Auguste Comte and the
Gospel--The moral Import of the Resurrection--And of the
Atonement 305

CHAPTER XXIII.

THE CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT.

Right the Fruit of Light--All Virtue from one
Source--Unbelief and Immorality--Christian Goodness--The Way
of Righteousness--Truth the Hall-mark of Sanctity--Verity
and Veracity--Specialists in Virtue--Reproof of open and of
hidden Sins--Manifestation and Transformation 321

CHAPTER XXIV.

THE NEW WINE OF THE SPIRIT.

Soberness and Excitement--The heedful Look--Evil Days for
the Asian Christians--Wisdom to know God's Will--Wine and
social Pleasure--The Craving for Excitement--Fulness of the
Spirit--The Rise of Christian Psalmody--The Music of the
Heart--Enthusiasm and Order 336

_ON FAMILY LIFE._

CHAPTER v. 22-vi. 9.

CHAPTER XXV.

CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE.

The Divine Character of Marriage--Religious Equality of the
Sexes--The Glory of the Man--Women's Rights--Christ's
undivided Headship--Masculine Selfishness--Greek Terms for
Love--The Husband and the Priest--The double
Self--Indelibility of Wedlock 353

CHAPTER XXVI.

CHRIST AND HIS BRIDE.

Marriage and the Doctrine of the Church--The Individual and
the Church--The Glory of the vicarious Death--Christ the
Sanctifier of His Church--The Signification of Baptism--The
Water and the Word--The Bride made ready--The Church a
Christocracy--Adam's Wedding-song--The Church inherent in
Christ 366

CHAPTER XXVII.

THE CHRISTIAN HOUSEHOLD.

Children in the Church--The initial Form of
Duty--Commandment and Promise--Gentleness of fatherly
Rule--Spoilt Children--The Lord's Nurture--Greek and Roman
Slaves--The Church and the Slaves--Christ a Pattern for
Slaves--Servants of Society--Care, Honesty, Heartiness in
Work--The heavenly Master's Reward--Responsibility of the
earthly Master 380

_ON THE APPROACHING CONFLICT._

CHAPTER vi. 10-18.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

THE FOES OF THE CHURCH.

Henceforth be strong!--The two Panoplies--The Personality of
Satan--The Devil and his Angels--Paul's Demonology--The
spiritual Combat--Interior Temptations--Persecution and
Heresy--The Region of the Struggle--The Siege of the
heavenly City 397

CHAPTER XXIX.

THE DIVINE PANOPLY.

The coming evil Day--Comparison with Revelation ii.,
iii.--The Girdle of Truth--The Breastplate of
Righteousness--Shoes of Gospel Readiness--The great Shield
of Faith--Fire-tipped Darts--The Helmet of Salvation--The
Spirit's Sword--The Weapon of All-prayer 410

_THE CONCLUSION._

CHAPTER vi. 19-24.

CHAPTER XXX.

REQUEST: COMMENDATION: BENEDICTION.

Paul's Need of the Church's Prayers--Christ's Ambassador
before the Emperor--Speaking the Word given--Good News for
the Asian Churches--Character and Services of
Tychicus--Peace to the Brethren--Love with Faith--Love
toward Christ and Grace from God--The Love incorruptible 427

_THE INTRODUCTION_

CHAPTER i. 1, 2.

=Ou monon Ephesou alla schedo pasês tês Asias ho Paulos houtos
peisas metestêsen hikano ochlon= (Demetrius the Silversmith).

ACTS xix. 26.