Ephesians 3:11

according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord;

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according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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according to the eternal purpose that He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

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according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

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Which is seen in his eternal purpose in Christ Jesus our Lord:

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"According to the eternal purpose." It hath been now, he means, brought to pass, but not now decreed, it had been planned beforehand from the very first. "According to the eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord." That is, according to the eternal foreknowledge; foreknowing the things to come, i.e., he means the ages to come; for He knew what was to be, and thus decreed it. According to the purpose of the ages, of those, perhaps, which He hath made by Christ Jesus, because it was by Christ that every thing was made.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Ephesians

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 8–12

Those whom God advances to honourable employments, he makes low in their own eyes; and where God gives grace to be humble, there he gives all other needful grace. How highly he speaks of Jesus Christ; the unsearchable riches of Christ! Though many are not enriched with these riches; yet how great a favour to have them preached among us, and to have an offer of them! And if we are not enriched with them it is our own fault. The first creation, when God made all things out of nothing, and the new creation, whereby sinners are made new creatures by converting grace, are of God by Jesus Christ. His riches are as unsearchable and as sure as ever, yet while angels adore the wisdom of God in the redemption of his church, the ignorance of self-wise and carnal men deems the whole to be foolishness.

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