Galatians, Ephesians

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- General introduction -- Goals -- Perspectives -- Historical Context -- Patterns of Reformation -- Schools of Exegesis -- Reading Scripture with the Reformers -- A Guide to Using This Commentary -- Pericopes of Scripture -- Overviews -- Topical Head...

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Main Author: Bray, Gerald L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Downers Grove InterVarsity Press 2011
In:Year: 2011
Reviews:Review of Global Readings: A Sri Lankan Commentary on Paul's Letter to the Galatians; Galatians, Ephesians; Ephesians$h (2012) (Gupta, Nijay K., 1978 -)
Series/Journal:Reformation Commentary on Scripture Series v.10
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
Online Access: Volltext (Aggregator)
Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: Bray, Gerald L: Galatians, Ephesians. - Downers Grove : InterVarsity Press,c2011. - 9780830829736
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Summary:Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- General introduction -- Goals -- Perspectives -- Historical Context -- Patterns of Reformation -- Schools of Exegesis -- Reading Scripture with the Reformers -- A Guide to Using This Commentary -- Pericopes of Scripture -- Overviews -- Topical Headings -- Identifying the Reformation Texts -- The Footnotes -- Introduction to Galatians & Ephesians -- The Pauline Epistles in the Reformation Era -- Galatians and Its Interpreters -- Ephesians and Its Interpreters -- Principles of This Edition -- Commentary on Galatians -- Preface -- 1:1-5 Greetings and Blessings -- General Introduction to the Chapter -- 1:1 An Apostle Sent by God -- 1:2 Paul and His Brothers Write to the Churches in Galatia -- 1:3 Paul Blesses the Churches -- 1:4 Jesus Gave Himself for Our Sins -- 1:5 Glory Be to God -- 1:6-9 The Integrity of the Gospel -- 1:6 The Defection of the Galatians -- 1:7 Perverting the Gospel of Christ -- 1:8 An Angel Who Preaches Another Gospel -- 1:9 Paul Repeats His Condemnation -- 1:10-17 Paul's Conversion -- 1:10 No One Can Serve Two Masters -- 1:11 The Gospel Is Not a Human Invention -- 1:12 Paul Received the Gospel by a Revelation from Jesus Christ -- 1:13 Paul Once Persecuted the Church of God -- 1:14 Paul Was Zealous for the Traditions of His Ancestors -- 1:15 God Called Paul by Grace -- 1:16 God Chose Paul to Preach Christ Among the Gentiles -- 1:17 Paul Went to Arabia and to Damascus -- 1:18-24 The Journey to Jerusalem -- 1:18 Paul Went to Jerusalem -- 1:19 Paul Saw Only James, the Lord's Brother -- 1:20 Paul Is Not Lying About His Past -- 1:21 Paul Went to Syria and Cilicia -- 1:22 Paul Was Personally Unknown to the Churches of Judea -- 1:23 The Judean Churches Had Heard About Paul's Conversion -- 1:24 The Judean Churches Praised God -- 2:1-10 The First Visit to Jerusalem
2:1 Paul Went to Jerusalem with Barnabas and Titus -- 2:2 Paul Went in Response to a Revelation -- 2:3 Titus Was Not Compelled to Be Circumcised -- 2:4 False Apostles Had Infiltrated the Church -- 2:5 Paul Did Not Give in to the False Apostles -- 2:6 God Does Not Judge by External Appearance -- 2:7 Paul Preached to the Gentiles and Peter to the Jews -- 2:8 God Was at Work in Their Ministry -- 2:9 The Apostles Extended Fellowship to Paul and Barnabas -- 2:10 Remember the Poor -- 2:11-14 The Confrontation at Antioch -- 2:11 Paul Opposed Peter When He Was Wrong -- 2:12 Peter Had Eaten with Gentiles -- 2:13 Other Jews Joined Peter in His Hypocrisy -- 2:14 Paul Confronted Peter Publicly -- 2:15-21 From Law to Grace -- 2:15 Jews and Gentiles by Birth -- 2:16 Justified by Faith in Jesus Christ Alone -- 2:17 Justified in Christ, Still Sinners -- 2:18 Paul Cannot Rebuild the Law -- 2:19 Dying to the Law, Living for God -- 2:20 Paul Was Alive Because Christ Lived in Him -- 2:21 If Righteousness Comes Through the Law, Christ Died for Nothing -- 3:1-6 The Folly of the Galatians -- 3:1 The Galatians Have Been Bewitched -- 3:2 The Spirit Received by Faith -- 3:3 Beginning with the Spirit, Now Relying on Human Effort -- 3:4 Suffering for Nothing? -- 3:5 The Holy Spirit Works Miracles by Faith -- 3:6 Abraham Believed God -- 3:7-14 Faith against Law -- 3:7 Believers Are Children of Abraham -- 3:8 Scripture Foresaw Blessings Through Abraham -- 3:9 Believers Are Blessed with Abraham -- 3:10 Those Who Rely on the Law -- 3:11 No One Is Justified by the Law -- 3:12 The Law Is Not Based on Faith -- 3:13 Christ Redeemed Us by Becoming a Curse for Us -- 3:14 Blessing to the Gentiles Comes Through Christ -- 3:15-20 Testament and Promise -- 3:15 No One Can Alter a Covenant -- 3:16 Promises Spoken to Abraham and to His Seed
3:17 The Law Does Not Set Aside the Covenant and the Promise -- 3:18 The Inheritance Depends on a Promise -- 3:19 The Law Was Added Because of Transgressions -- 3:20 The Role of a Mediator -- 3:21-29 Restrained by Law until Faith was Revealed -- 3:21 Law Does Not Oppose the Promises of God -- 3:22 What Was Promised Through Faith in Jesus Christ -- 3:23 Prisoners of the Law -- 3:24 The Law Leads Us to Christ -- 3:25 We Are No Longer Under the Law -- 3:26 Children of God in Christ -- 3:27 Baptized into Christ -- 3:28 All One in Christ Jesus -- 3:29 Abraham's Heirs According to the Promise -- 4:1-7 Inheritance Through Christ -- 4:1 When the Heir Is a Child -- 4:2 The Heir Is Subject to Guardians and Trustees -- 4:3 We Were in Slavery to the World -- 4:4 When the Time Came, God Sent His Son -- 4:5 The Son Redeems Those Under Law -- 4:6 God Has Sent the Spirit of His Son into Our Hearts -- 4:7 God Has Made Us Heirs -- 4:8-20 The Backsliding of the Galatians -- 4:8 When You Did Not Know God -- 4:9 Why Turn Back to the World If You Know God? -- 4:10 Are There Special Days, Months and Years? -- 4:11 Paul's Efforts Among the Galatians -- 4:12 Become Like Paul -- 4:13 How It Was That Paul Preached the Gospel to the Galatians -- 4:14 The Galatians Had Welcomed Paul -- 4:15 What Happened to the Galatians' Joy? -- 4:16 Telling the Truth Hurts -- 4:17 False Apostles Alienate People from True Apostles -- 4:18 Zeal Linked to Its Purpose -- 4:19 Paul and His Children -- 4:20 Paul Wants to Go Back to Galatia -- 4:21-31 The Bound and the Free -- 4:21 What the Law Says -- 4:22 Two Sons: One Slave, One Free -- 4:23 The Different Births of the Two Sons -- 4:24 The Women Represent Two Covenants -- 4:25 Hagar, Mount Sinai and the Present City of Jerusalem -- 4:26 The Jerusalem Above -- 4:27 The Barren Woman Will Bear Children -- 4:28 Children of the Promise
4:29 The Natural Son Persecutes the Spiritual One -- 4:30 The Slaves Must Be Cast Out -- 4:31 Children of the Free Woman -- 5:1-12 Exhortations to Steadfastness -- Paul Argues for His Doctrine of Faith -- 5:1 Christ Has Set Us Free -- 5:2 Circumcision Is Incompatible with Faith in Christ -- 5:3 Circumcision Is an Obligation to Obey the Whole Law -- 5:4 Trying to Be Justified by Law -- 5:5 The Righteousness for Which We Hope -- 5:6 Faith in Love -- 5:7 The Galatians Were Running a Good Race but Fell Away -- 5:8 This Does Not Come from God -- 5:9 A Little Yeast Corrupts Everything -- 5:10 Paying the Penalty -- 5:11 Circumcision Abolishes the Offense of the Cross -- 5:12 The Agitators Should Emasculate Themselves -- 5:13-18 Freedom in the Spirit -- 5:13 Called to Be Free -- 5:14 Love Your Neighbor as Yourself -- 5:15 Do Not Destroy One Another -- 5:16 Live by the Spirit -- 5:17 The Sinful Nature Is Opposed to the Spirit -- 5:18 If You Are Led by the Spirit -- 5:19-26 Fruits and Works -- 5:19 The Acts of the Sinful Nature Are Obvious -- 5:20 More Sins of the Flesh -- 5:21 Those Who Will Not Inherit the Kingdom of God -- 5:22 The Fruit of the Spirit -- 5:23 Against These Things There Is No Law -- 5:24 Christians Have Crucified Their Sinful Nature -- 5:25 Keep in Step with the Spirit -- 5:26 Let Us Not Provoke Each Other -- 6:1-5 Spiritual Admonition -- 6:1 Restore Sinners Gently -- 6:2 Bear One Another's Burdens -- 6:3 Pride Is Self-Delusion -- 6:4 Take Pride in Yourself -- 6:5 Bearing One's Own Burden -- 6:6-10 Precepts for Discipleship -- 6:6 Pay Instructors -- 6:7 A Person Reaps What He Sows -- 6:8 Pleasing the Spirit Brings Eternal Life -- 6:9 Do Not Give Up -- 6:10 Do Good to All People, Especially to Believers -- 6:11-18 Final Injunctions -- 6:11 Paul Writes in His Own Hand -- 6:12 Circumcision a Way to Avoid Persecution
6:13 Even the Circumcised Do Not Obey the Law -- 6:14 Boast Only in the Cross -- 6:15 Neither Circumcision nor Uncircumcision Means Anything -- 6:16 Peace and Mercy to Those Who Follow This Rule -- 6:17 Paul Bears the Marks of Jesus -- 6:18 The Final Blessing -- Conclusion -- Commentary on Ephesians -- Preface -- 1:1-2 Introductory Greeting -- 1:1 An Apostle to the Saints -- 1:2 Grace and Peace -- 1:3-6 The Great Benediction -- 1:3 Every Spiritual Blessing in Christ -- 1:4 Chosen Before the Creation of the World -- 1:5 Predestined to Be Adopted -- 1:6 The Praise of God's Glorious Grace -- 1:7-10 Redemption through Christ -- 1:7 Redemption Through Christ's Blood -- 1:8 The Riches of God's Grace -- 1:9 The Mystery of God's Will -- 1:10 The End of Time -- 1:11-14 Our Inheritance in Christ -- 1:11 The Plan of God -- 1:12 The Praise of God's Glory -- 1:13 The Seal of the Holy Spirit -- 1:14 The Redemption of God's Possessions -- 1:15-18 Paul's Thanksgiving -- 1:15 Faith and Love for the Saints -- 1:16 Thanks and Prayers -- 1:17 The Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation -- 1:18 The Riches of God's Glorious Inheritance -- 1:19-23 The Rule of Christ -- 1:19 The Power of God -- 1:20 Christ Raised from the Dead, Seated at the Father's Right Hand -- 1:21 Above All Rule and Authority -- 1:22 God Placed All Things Under Christ's Feet -- 1:23 The Church Is Christ's Body -- 2:1-3 The State of the Unredeemed -- Introduction -- 2:1 Dead in Sin -- 2:2 The Ways of This World -- 2:3 Objects of Wrath by Nature -- 2:4-10 The Mercy of God -- 2:4 The Love of God for Us -- 2:5 Alive with Christ -- 2:6 Seated with Christ in Heaven -- 2:7 The Incomparable Riches of Grace -- 2:8 Saved by Grace Through Faith -- 2:9 Not Saved by Works -- 2:10 Created to Do Good Works -- 2:11-16 The Salvation of the Gentiles -- 2:11 Gentiles by Birth -- 2:12 Strangers to the Covenant of Promise
2:13 Brought Near Through the Blood of Christ
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ISBN:0830866299