ACC ~ Ephesians 3 v8b

THE GRACE TO WORK. MARIUS VICTORINUS: Was work given before grace? Or did grace come before any works? That which is working is God’s power. So grace had already been given. When it is said that Paul was made a minister according to the gift of God, we understand that the gift of being a minister was given before his working to make him a minister, and his being a minister is the gift and grace of God. EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 1.3.7-8.

UNSEARCHABLE RICHES. JEROME: Unsearchable and hidden can be given two senses. The riches were previously unable to be searched out. They are now laid open after the Lord’s passion. Another sense, perhaps even better: Those things which by nature were unsearchable to humanity are the ones that have been made known by God’s revelation. EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 2.3.8-9.

WHAT IS KNOWN IS THEIR UNSEARCHABILITY. THEODORET: The divine apostle says not only that Christ’s nature is divine but also that “his riches are unsearchable.” “And how does one preach if his riches are indeed unsearchable?” “I preach this very thing,” he says, “that they are unsearchable.” PISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS 3.8.

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