The Epistle to the Ephesians: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition

by F. F. Bruce

Publisher:

Creative Communications

, 2012

Overview

In this exposition, biblical scholar F.F. Bruce explains the text of Ephesians in the simple and clear style that characterizes his work. As Bruce wrote in his preface to the 1961 edition, “The exposition is intended for the general Christian reader who is interested in serious Bible study, not for the professional or specialist student. Textual, linguistic and other critical questions have therefore been touched upon lightly; the main aim has been to bring out the meaning and message of the Epistle.”

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Key Features

• Takes you verse by verse through Ephesians
• Offers insights from one of the most noted Christian scholars of the twentieth century
• Intended for the lay reader

Contents

• Author’s Introduction
• Part 1: The New Community in the Purpose of God
• Part 2: The New Community in the Life of Believers

Product Details

• Title: The Epistle to the Ephesians: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition
• Author: F.F. Bruce
• Publisher: Creative 4 International
• Publication Date: 2012
• Pages: 128
• Christian Group: Evangelicals
• Resource Type: Bible Studies
• Topic: Pauline Studies

About F. F. Bruce

F.F. Bruce (1910–1990) was one of the founders of the modern evangelical understanding of the Bible and served as the Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester. After teaching Greek for several years, first at the University of Edinburgh and then at the University of Leeds, he became head of the department of Biblical history and literature at the University of Sheffield in 1947. He studied at University of Aberdeen, Cambridge University, and the University of Vienna. Bruce wrote over 40 books, including New International Bible Commentary, Paul: Apostle of the Free Spirit, The Epistle to the Galatians: New International Greek Testament Commentary, Romans in Tyndale Commentaries, and The Book of Acts, The Epistles to the Colossians, to Philemon, and to the Ephesians, and The Epistle to the Hebrews in The New International Commentary on the New Testament (NICNT).

Contents

Top Highlights

“We are his ‘workmanship’ (Gk. poiēma), his work of art, his masterpiece. And we shall show that we are his workmanship by the works which we perform. Those who continue to ‘walk’ in the trespasses and sins which characterize the unregenerate state show that they are not God’s workmanship, whatever professions they may make. But those who ‘walk’ in those good works which God has preordained for his people give ample evidence of the power of a new life which operates within them. No one more wholeheartedly than Paul repudiated good works as a ground of salvation; no one more wholeheartedly insisted on good works as the fruit of salvation.” (Pages 50–51)

“But if we are not saved by good works, we are assuredly saved for good works.” (Page 50)

“But not content with this superlative word, he piles synonym on synonym as he describes how God’s ‘power’ (dynamis) operates according to the inworking (energeia) of the strength (kratos) of his might (ischys). Why this attempt to exhaust the resources of language to convey something of the greatness of God’s power? Because he is thinking of one supreme occasion when that power was exerted.” (Page 37)

“The verbs ‘quickened,’ ‘raised,’ ‘made to sit,’ are all in the aorist tense; they express what God has already done for his children in Christ.” (Page 48)

“Salvation is not of works, firstly because it is bestowed by grace, and secondly because it is received by faith.” (Page 50)

Product Details

• Title: The Epistle to the Ephesians: A Verse-by-Verse Exposition
• Author: F. F. Bruce
• Publisher: Creative Communications
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. Ephesians › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780755493838, 0755493834
• Resource ID: LLS:PSTLPHSNSVRSBXP
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:29:30Z

About F. F. Bruce

F. F. Bruce (1910-1990) was known worldwide as the "dean of evangelical scholarship"—a reputation earned by a lifetime of scholarship, teaching, and writing. Trained in classics at the University of Aberdeen and Cambridge University, he taught at the Universities of Edinburgh, Leeds, and Sheffield before serving for nearly twenty years as the Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester in England. During his distinguished career, he wrote many outstanding commentaries and books, including Paul, Apostle of the Heart Set Free; Israel and the Nations; New Testament History; The Books and the Parchments: How We Got Our English Bible; Jesus and Christian Origins Outside the New Testament; and The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? He also served as general editor of The New International Commentary on the New Testament.