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Title: St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians
A Practical Exposition

Author: Charles Gore

Release Date: April 17, 2010 [EBook #32016]

Language: English

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_St. Paul's_

_Epistle to the Ephesians_

_A Practical Exposition_

BY THE

RIGHT REV. CHARLES GORE, M.A., D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF WORCESTER

FIFTH IMPRESSION

TWELFTH THOUSAND

LONDON

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET

1902

_A Series of Simple Expositions_

_of_

_Portions of the New Testament_

BY THE

RIGHT REV. DR. GORE.

THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. _Crown 8vo_, 3/6.

THE EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS. _Crown 8vo_, 3/6.

THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. 2 _Vols., Crown 8vo_, 3/6 _each_.

Oxford

HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

TO

JAMES L. HOUGHTELING

OF CHICAGO

THE FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF THE BROTHERHOOD

OF ST. ANDREW

AND TO ALL THE BROTHERHOOD

WHICH IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE

HE REPRESENTS

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PREFACE

The favourable reception accorded to an exposition of the Sermon on the
Mount has encouraged me to attempt another practical explanation of a
portion of the New Testament, in the interest of such readers as are
intelligent indeed, but neither are nor hope to become critical
scholars. An immense deal has been done of late to assist New
Testament scholarship, but while the studies of the scholar make
progress, the ordinary Christian 'reading of the Bible' is, I fear, at
best at a standstill. This little book then is intended to make one of
St. Paul's epistles as intelligible as may be to the ordinary reader,
and so to enable him to make a practical religious use of it, 'to read,
mark, learn and inwardly digest' it.

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The method pursued, in the main, has been to let each section of the
epistle be preceded by an analysis or paraphrase of the teaching it
contains, in which it is hoped that no element in the teaching is left
unnoticed, and followed by such f