E-text prepared by Charles Franks, Colin Bell, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Transcriber's note: A number of typographical errors have been corrected, and two minor changes have been made to the book's formatting. There is a full list of emendations at the end. The book's inconsistent hyphenation has been preserved, with an educated guess made as to whether those hyphens appearing at ends of the line were intended by the author, or just added because the word was broken at that point. EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE ALEXANDER MACLAREN, D. D., Litt. D. * * * * * EPHESIANS EPISTLES OF ST. PETER AND ST. JOHN New York George H. Doran Company _EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE_ ALEXANDER MACLAREN, D. D., Litt. D. EPHESIANS CONTENTS PAGE SAINTS AND FAITHFUL (Eph i. 1) 1 'ALL SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS' (Eph. i. 3) 8 'ACCORDING TO'--I. (Eph. i. 5, 7) 18 'ACCORDING TO'--II. (Eph. i. 7) 26 GOD'S INHERITANCE AND OURS (Eph. i. 11, 14) 35 THE EARNEST AND THE INHERITANCE (Eph. i. 14) 43 THE HOPE OF THE CALLING (Eph. i. 18) 52 GOD'S INHERITANCE IN THE SAINTS (Eph. i. 18) 62 THE MEASURE OF IMMEASURABLE POWER (Eph. i. 19, 20) 72 THE RESURRECTION OF DEAD SOULS (Eph. ii. 4, 5) 81 'THE RICHES OF GRACE' (Eph. ii. 7) 91 SALVATION: GRACE: FAITH (Eph. ii. 8, R.V.) 98 GOD'S WORKMANSHIP AND OUR WORKS (Eph. ii. 10) 108 THE CHIEF CORNER-STONE (Eph. ii. 20, R.V.) 118 'THE WHOLE FAMILY' (Eph. iii. 15) 128 STRENGTHENED WITH MIGHT (Eph. iii. 10) 132 THE INDWELLING CHRIST (Eph. iii. 17) 142 LOVE UNKNOWABLE AND KNOWN (Eph. iii. 18, 19) 151 THE PARADOX OF LOVE'S MEASURE (Eph. iii. 18) 162 THE CLIMAX OF ALL PRAYER (Eph. iii. 19) 171 MEASURELESS POWER AND ENDLESS GLORY (Eph. iii. 20, 21) 180 THE CALLING AND THE KINGDOM (Eph. iv. 1; Rev. iii. 4) 194 'THE THREEFOLD UNITY' (Eph. iv. 5) 203 'THE MEASURE OF GRACE' (Eph. iv. 7, R.V.) 207 THE GOAL OF PROGRESS (Eph. iv. 13, R.V.) 216 CHRIST OUR LESSON AND OUR TEACHER (Eph. iv. 20, 21) 224 A DARK PICTURE AND A BRIGHT HOPE (Eph. iv. 22) 233 THE NEW MAN (Eph. iv. 24) 247 GRIEVING THE SPIRIT (Eph. iv. 30) 262 GOD'S IMITATORS (Eph. v. 1) 270