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God’s Grace Excerpt Here begins the digression. The words, “if ye have heard,” etc., do not denote an uncertainty, but are a delicate reminder. Doubtless they had heard of the matter when he was at Ephesus, and, as he remarks in ver .  3 , he had already written briefly on it. Grace is here used in a more restricted sense than in ch .  1:2 —in the sense of Divine favour, honour, privilege —the same as in ver .  8 , “To me … is this favour given.”   Which is given me to you -ward. The grace or favour meant is that whereby Paul was constituted the apostle of the Gentiles. Deeply though he felt his being sent away from preaching to his countrymen ( Acts  22:18 ), he took kindly to the new sphere allotted to him, and magnified his office ( Rom.  11:13 ).  More Spence-Jones, H. D. M., ed.   Ephesians . London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909. Print. The Pulpit Commentary.

God’s Grace Excerpt Here begins the digression. The words, “if ye have heard,” etc. , do not denote an uncertainty, but are a delicate reminder. Doubtless they had heard of the matter when he was at Ephesus, and, as he remarks in ver.   3 , he had already written briefly on it. Grace is here used in a more restricted sense than in ch.   1:2 —in the sense of Divine favour, honour, privilege —the same as in ver.  8 , “To me … is this favour given.”  Which is given me to you -ward. The grace or favour meant is that whereby Paul was constituted the apostle of the Gentiles. Deeply though he felt his being sent away from preaching to his countrymen ( Acts  22:18 ), he took kindly to the new sphere allotted to him, and magnified his office ( Rom.  11:13 ).  More Spence-Jones, H. D. M., ed.  Ephesians . London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909. Print. The Pulpit Commentary.

God’s Grace Excerpt Here begins the digression. The words, “if ye have heard,” etc., do not denote an uncertainty, but are a delicate reminder. Doubtless they had heard of the matter when he was at Ephesus, and, as he remarks in ver .  3 , he had already written briefly on it. Grace is here used in a more restricted sense than in ch .  1:2 —in the sense of Divine favour, honour, privilege —the same as in ver .  8 , “To me … is this favour given.”  Which is given me to you -ward. The grace or favour meant is that whereby Paul was constituted the apostle of the Gentiles. Deeply though he felt his being sent away from preaching to his countrymen ( Acts  22:18 ), he took kindly to the new sphere allotted to him, and magnified his office ( Rom.  11:13 ).  More Spence-Jones, H. D. M., ed.  Ephesians . London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909. Print. The Pulpit Commentary.

God’s Grace Excerpt Here begins the digression. The words , “if ye have heard,” etc., do not denote an uncertainty, but are a delicate reminder. Doubtless they had heard of the matter when he was at Ephesus, and, as he remarks in ver.   3 , he had already written briefly on it. Grace is here used in a more restricted sense than in ch.   1:2 —in the sense of Divine favour, honour, privilege —the same as in ver.   8 , “To me … is this favour given.”  Which is given me to you -ward. The grace or favour meant is that whereby Paul was constituted the apostle of the Gentiles. Deeply though he felt his being sent away from preaching to his countrymen ( Acts  22:18 ), he took kindly to the new sphere allotted to him, and magnified his office ( Rom.  11:13 ).  More Spence-Jones, H. D. M., ed.  Ephesians . London; New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1909. Print. The Pulpit Commentary.