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- noun US, slang A
student at Williams College, Massachusetts, USA.
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Christ the "foundation," laid by Paul (1Co 2: 2) is not, as in Eph 2: 20,
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Here fellowship with wicked workers is forbidden; in Eph 5: 11, with their wicked works.
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For -- argument against their suffering themselves to be beguiled, drawn from a regard to his personal authority as though he were present. joying and beholding -- beholding with joy. order -- your good order; answering to "knit together" (Col 2: 2) as a well-organized body; the same Greek as that for knit together, is used of the body "of the Church compacted," in Eph 4: 16.
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The Greek is different in Eph 5: 25 (see on [2329] Eph 5: 25). for our sins -- which enslaved us to the present evil world. deliver us from this -- Greek, "out of the," &c.
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As in Eph 1: 13, believers are said to be sealed "in" Christ, so here
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"Righteousness" is here joined with "truth," as in Eph 5: 9: righteousness in works, truth in words [Estius] (1Jo 3: 7).
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(Col 2: 19). fitly joined together -- "being fitly framed together," as in Eph 2: 21; all the parts being in their proper position, and in mutual relation. compacted -- implying firm consolidation. by that which every joint supplieth -- Greek, "by means of every joint of the supply"; joined with "maketh increase of the body," not with
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Paul seems to allude to all these terms in Eph 5: 19, "singing ... in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs."
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Stand -- The repetition in Eph 6: 11, 14, shows that standing, that is, maintaining our ground, not yielding or fleeing, is the grand aim of the Christian soldier.
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The same image in Eph 3: 18, recurs in his address to the Ephesian elders
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