Arno C. Gaebelein, one of America’s truly great Bible teachers, published The Annotated Bible in 1922. This deeply insightful nine-volume commentary set is praised and respected by legions of devoted seekers. This impassioned author writes with enthusiasm and knowledge, whether he is answering destructive criticisms or defending the traditional authorship of the books of the Bible.
Philippians, Colossians, 1 & 2 Thessalonians, 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, and Hebrews—Gaebelein covers each of these nine New Testament books in The Annotated Bible, vol. 8.
“They do not touch the election and perserverance of the Saints who are members of the body of which He is the head. A believer thus reconciled will continue in the faith and will not be moved away from the hope of the gospel; this is one of the tests of salvation.” (Page 59)
“The mystery of which he writes is not the coming of Christ to this earth, His incarnation, death, resurrection, ascension and coming again. All this was not a mystery, for it was revealed in the Old Testament. The mystery made known through him and of which he writes is a glorified Christ who unites all in His person, the Head in glory, who has a body composed of saved Jews and Gentiles, who are one in Him, and ‘Christ in (or among) you the hope of glory’—which looks forward to the consummation, when this body which is now forming, through the preaching of the Gospel, is to be with the Head in glory. This is the mystery which was hid in former ages. It is unrevealed in the Old Testament and therefore exclusively a New Testament revelation.” (Page 61)
“We must notice here that up to this point in this Epistle we have learned of the two headships of Christ. He is head of creation and head of the church. Then followed a twofold reconciliation. The reconciliation of all things which includes all creation over which He is the head, and the reconciliation of believers, who are in that body over which He is the head.” (Page 60)
“Then all present disorder will cease, the curse will be removed, Satan will be bound. This dispensation of the fullness of times will have come and Christ will reign and His Saints with Him.” (Pages 57–58)