Produced by Marcia Brooks, Colin Bell, Nigel Blower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) [Transcriber’s Note: This e-text includes Greek characters and punctuation that will only display in UTF-8 (Unicode) text readers, e.g. ὁ λόγος. If any of these characters do not display properly, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) version of this text instead, in which the Greek words have been transliterated. _Italic_ words in the original have been enclosed in underscores in this version. A few minor typographical errors have been silently corrected. The Table of Contents refers to original page numbers. All advertising material has been placed at the end of the text.] 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.