A COMMENTARYON THEEPISTLE OF PAULGREEK TEXT OF THETOTHE EPHESIANS.BY THK LATEJOHN EADIE, D.D., LL.D.,PROFESSOR OK BIBLICAL LITERATURE AND EXEGESIS TO TliE UNITEDPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.Etiition.CfjirtEDITED BY REV. W. GLASGOW.YOUNG, M.A.,EDINBURGH:T. & 8 G E 11 G E fc> TRE E T.T. C LA 11 3K,1883.TTATAOS o TV alKaU <rr*^Wu(w ? x*2 *, rf ftpov<rp. BAiIA.ft,K{M uraiff.toti. 2KALTK. OliAT. II.T-JstjXtuv ruv Mor.u.u.rwj XKI Jyrtooy<ftii afQofyot yxuv. y.o /uvaauoiJruin-it.ff%i$ov IvratJ^ ^Xa?. TOT XPTiOiTOMOTi<f>6iy%*ro, TIIOBKi12;i/f T^V ivrio-ro/.r,*.-rjflf E(f>i<riovidiffieultatibus etQuantis qurun j)rofundis involutaqua-stionilmssit. Proocm. ill Comment, inHlERONYMUS, adE}>l#t. Ephtsios.Hoc ut membrorum ordincm eta^o, ostcndain, neinonoam, abjiciaturnativa et al) ]significatio verborum, aulo scntentiarnjubeo ipso]>eti ;it.iii aliud doctrinse.gigno genus ad Horn.MELANCHTHON, Ei>istoltePraEnarratio, fal.TO FIRST EDITION,PREFACEto a concisearc anTHE attempt givefollowing pagesto theof the of Paulbut full EpistleExpositionmindhas been to exhibit theobjectEphesians. ^Iyscientificnot aof theand meaning apostle, only bybut also a careful delineaof his byanalysis language,and of hisof the connectiontion sequencelogicalor detached annotaMere verbal criticismthoughts.and inthe various words themselvestion byuponas ita defective inasmuchsuccession is course, mayon ...
A COMMENTARY
ON THE
EPISTLE OF PAULGREEK TEXT OF THE
TO
THE EPHESIANS.
BY THK LATE
JOHN EADIE, D.D., LL.D.,
PROFESSOR OK BIBLICAL LITERATURE AND EXEGESIS TO TliE UNITED
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Etiition.Cfjirt
EDITED BY REV. W. GLASGOW.YOUNG, M.A.,
EDINBURGH:
T. & 8 G E 11 G E fc> TRE E T.T. C LA 11 3K,
1883.TTATAOS o TV alKaU <rr*^Wu(w ? x*2 *
, rf ftp
ov
<rp. BAiIA.ft,K{M uraiff.toti. 2KALTK. OliAT. II.
T-JstjXtuv ruv Mor.u.u.rwj XKI Jyrtoo
y<ftii afQofyot yxuv. y.o /uvaauoiJ
ruin-it.ff%i$ov IvratJ^ ^Xa?. TOT XPTiOiTOMOT
i<f>6iy%*ro, TIIOBKi12
;
i/f T^V ivrio-ro/.r,*.-rjflf E(f>i<riovi
diffieultatibus etQuantis qurun j)rofundis involutaqua-stionilms
sit. Proocm. ill Comment, inHlERONYMUS, ad
E}>l#t. Ephtsios.
Hoc ut membrorum ordincm eta^o, ostcndain, neinonoam, abjiciatur
nativa et al) ]significatio verborum, aulo scntentiarnjubeo ipso
]>eti ;
it.iii aliud doctrinse.gigno genus ad Horn.MELANCHTHON, Ei>istolte
PraEnarratio, fal.TO FIRST EDITION,PREFACE
to a concisearc anTHE attempt givefollowing pages
to theof the of Paulbut full EpistleExposition
mindhas been to exhibit the
objectEphesians. ^Iy
scientificnot aof theand meaning apostle, only by
but also a careful delineaof his byanalysis language,
and of hisof the connectiontion sequencelogical
or detached annotaMere verbal criticismthoughts.
and inthe various words themselvestion byupon
as ita defective inasmuchsuccession is course, may
on the ofof mentalleave the partprocess operation
links anduntraced in itsthe writer whollyinspired
bethe sense is not toOn the otherinvolutions. hand,
but to beor at, patientlylazily abruptly grasped
shades and thein its most delicatedetected aspects, by
As the smallerof vocable.
investigation everyprecise
features theirof the countenance to itslines largergive
the minuterdistinctive soand expression,special
ofanand individualityprepositions giveparticles
ofto the more termsand prominentshape complexion
hasIn thisa sentence or spirit philologyparagraph.
andbeen in subordination to gramexegesis,kept
themade subservient tomatical has beeninquiry
of idea and argument.developmentVI PREFACE.
At the same and so far as I am I havetime, aware,
no available from or inneglected help any quarter
The Greek Fathers have been oftenany language.
referred the and Gothic versionsto, Syriae, Coptic,
are and the most recent German
occasionally quoted,
commentators have been examined without
partiality
or in so views withprejudice. Though manyagreeing
andOlshausen, llarless, Stier, Tischendorf,Meyer, yet
there are in connection with the text,many points
and of the onliterature, exegesis, theology epistle,
which I am forced to differ from one or all of them,
in Iand such cases have endeavoured toalways
"
render a reason." some think that toomayPerhaps
authorities are now and then but theadduced,many
method has at least this that if names be ofadvantage,
their full invalue at receiveall,any they complement
such an enumeration and should the of; opinion any
of them be it is seen at once that I do notadopted,
claim the but avoid the of
paternity, equally charge
ofand disavow the awkward honour
plagiarism, origin
for a borrowed or On
ality repeated interpretation.
an and doubtful clause the variousmany important
under distinct andare arranged separateopinions
at once what had been doneheads, showing
what isfor its and inelucidation, attemptedalready
the volume. Not that I have compresent merely
a for it is that the
piled synopsis, humbly hoped
will find the fruits ofreader everywhere living
andand research.independent thoughtpersonal
Sometimes when the which I totruth, suppose
have been delivered the is one which hasby apostle,
or a fewbeen either misunderstood rejected, paragraphsPREFACE. Vll
have been more for illustration than defence.added,
I not be free from theindeed,Perhaps, may wholly
same weakness which I have found in others 1
; yet
trust that own has notfondly my theological system
led me to seek assistance inordinatepolemical by any
strain or on idioms or It
pressure peculiar expressions.
is error and to seek to take more out oftoo,impiety
than the has into it. As the
Scripture Holy Spirit put
commentator neither creates nor invents the grammar
of invarithe which he is I havelanguage expounding,
the best whenauthorities,ably quoted any special
is so that no canon orconcerned,usage linguistic
is left to the of mere assertion. The
principle support
which have me I have thus leftlamps guided burning,
the benefit of those who come after me in thefor may
of additional ore in the same andhope finding precious
Willunexhausted mine. it bespeak any indulgence
to hint that the work has been amidstsimply composed
the continuous and duties of a numerousabsorbing city
and will it be out of to thatadd,charge, thought place
has a relation to allthe Christian the churches,ministry
well as to an Inas individual ? thecongregation hope,
in that it contribute in some to thetine, may degree
and of one of the senjoyment greatstudy apostle
richest the book is commended to theletters, humbly
Divine
blessing.
CA.MI:UII><;K SritKir,
October l&M