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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>Ephesians</FONT>
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<BR>Completed by S<FONT SIZE=-1>AMUEL</FONT> R<FONT SIZE=-1>OSEWELL</FONT>.</P>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO </FONT></P>
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S<FONT SIZE=-1>OME</FONT>
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think that this epistle to the Ephesians was a circular letter sent to
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several churches, and that the copy directed to the Ephesians happened
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to be taken into the canon, and so it came to bear that particular
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inscription. And they have been induced the rather to think this
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because it is the only one of all Paul's epistles that has nothing in
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it peculiarly adapted to the state or case of that particular church;
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but it has much of common concernment to all Christians, and especially
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to all who, having been Gentiles in times past, were converted to
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Christianity. But then it may be observed, on the other hand, that the
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epistle is expressly inscribed
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eph+1:1">1:1</A>)
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<I>to the saints which are at Ephesus;</I> and in the close of it he
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tells them that he had sent Tychicus unto them, whom, in
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=2Ti+4:12">2 Tim. iv. 12</A>,
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he says he had sent to Ephesus. It is an epistle that bears date out of
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a prison: and some have observed that what this apostle wrote when he
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was a prisoner had the greatest relish and savour in it of the things
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of God. When his tribulations did abound, his consolations and
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experiences did much more abound, whence we may observe that the
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afflictive exercises of God's people, and particularly of his
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ministers, often tend to the advantage of others as well as to their
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own. The apostle's design is to settle and establish the Ephesians in
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the truth, and further to acquaint them with the mystery of the gospel,
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in order to it. In the former part he represents the great privilege of
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the Ephesians, who, having been in time past idolatrous heathens, were
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now converted to Christianity and received into covenant with God,
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which he illustrates from a view of their deplorable state before their
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conversion,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eph+1:1-3:21"><I>ch.</I> 1-3</A>.
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In the latter part (which we have in the
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eph+4:1-6:24">4th, 5th, and 6th chapters</A>)
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he instructs them in the principal duties of religion, both personal
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and relative, and exhorts and quickens them to the faithful discharge
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of them. Zanchy observes that we have here an epitome of the whole
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Christian doctrine, and of almost all the chief heads of divinity.</P>
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