ON THE GREEK TEXT OF THE EPISTLE OF PAUL ΤΟ THE EPHESIANS. BY THE LATE JOHN EADIE, D.D., LL.D., PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE AND EXEGESIS TO THE UNITED Third Edition. EDITED BY REV. W. YOUNG, M.A., GLASGOW. EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK, 38 GEORGE STREET. ΠΑΥΛΟΣ—ὁ τὴν οἰκουμένην σταδιεύσας, καὶ τῷ περὶ πίστεως δρόμῳ τὸν κόσμον μικρὸν ἀποφήνας.—ΒΑΣΙΛ. ΣΕΛΕΥΚ. ORAT. II. Υψηλῶν σφόδρα γίμει τῶν νοημάτων καὶ ὑπερόγκων. ἃ γὰρ μηδαμοῦ σχεδον ἐφθέγξατο, ταῦτα ἐνταῦθα δηλοί. —ΤΟΥ ΧΡΥΣΟΣΤΟΜΟΥ ; ΥΠΟΘΕΣΙΣ εἰς τὴν πρὸς Εφεσίους ἐπιστολήν. Quantis difficultatibus et quam profundis quæstionibus involuta sit. HIERONYMUS, Proæm, in Comment. in Epist. ad Ephesios. Hoc ago, ut membrorum ordinem ostendam, et moneam, ne abjiciatur nativa significatio verborum, et jubeo ab ipso Paulo sententiam peti; non gigno aliud genus doctrinæ. - MELANCHTHON, Epistola ad Rom. Enarratio, Præfat. 13 ΜΑ PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. THE following pages are an attempt to give a concise but full Exposition of the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians. My object has been to exhibit the mind and meaning of the apostle, not only by a scientific analysis of his language, but also by a careful delineation of the logical connection and sequence of his thoughts. Mere verbal criticism or detached annotation upon the various words by themselves and in succession is a defective course, inasmuch as it may leave the process of mental operation on the part of the inspired writer wholly untraced in its links and involutions. On the other hand, the sense is not to be lazily or abruptly grasped at, but to be patiently detected in its most delicate shades and aspects, by the precise investigation of every vocable. As the smaller lines of the countenance give to its larger features their special and distinctive expression, so the minuter particles and prepositions give an individuality of shape and complexion to the more prominent terms of a sentence or paragraph. In this spirit philology has been kept in subordination to exegesis, and grammatical inquiry has been made subservient to the development of idea and argument. a |