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Ephesians 3:4

James Moffatt - New Testament

you can understand my insight into that secret of Christ

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and pray for me as well, that God may give me an opening for the word, to speak of the open secret of Christ for which I am in custody.

This is how you are to look upon us, as servants of Christ and stewards of God's secret truths.

I am no speaker, perhaps, but knowledge I do possess; I never failed to make myself intelligible to you.

And who does not admit how profound is the divine truth of our religion? — it is He who was "manifest in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by the angels, preached among the nations, believed on throughout the world, taken up to glory."

May their hearts be encouraged! May they learn the meaning of love! May they have all the wealth of conviction that comes from insight! May they learn to know that open secret of God, the Father of Christ,

and on my behalf also, that I may be allowed to speak and open my lips in order to expound fully and freely that open secret of the gospel

This is a profound symbol, I mean as regards Christ and the church.

He has granted us complete insight and understanding of the open secret of his will, showing us how it was the purpose of his design

so he said, "It is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Reign of God, but the others get it in parables, so that for all their seeing they may not see, and for all their hearing they may not understand.

they must maintain the divine truth of the faith with a pure conscience.

I may prophesy, fathom all mysteries and secret lore, I may have such absolute faith that I can move hills from their place, but if I have no love, I count for nothing;

He replied, "Because it is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Realm of heaven, but it is not granted to these people.

To prevent you from being self-conceited, brothers, I would like you to understand this secret: it is only a partial insensibility that has come over Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in.

[Now to Him who can strengthen you by my gospel, by the preaching of Jesus Christ, by revealing the secret purpose which after the silence of long ages

how the divine secret was disclosed to me by a revelation (if you read what I have already written briefly about this,

and enlighten all men upon the new order of that divine secret which God the Creator of all concealed from eternity —

of that open secret which, though concealed from ages and generations of old, has now been disclosed to the saints of God.




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