...same image, from glory into glory." " We rejoice in hope of the glory of God." "In whom" (Christ) " ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth,...promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance." "Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better...

...of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. jFrom Scripture* SECTION I. Eph. i. 13. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word...ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise. Acts xiii.32, 33. And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was...

...for them in heaven. Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts. After that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit...inheritance, until the redemption of the purchased possession. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 8....

...in Christ, he is a new creature : old things are passed away ; behold, all things are become new." " In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word...salvation ; in whom also after that ye believed," (or, rather, "having believed," or, as Dean Alford renders it, "on your believing,") "ye were sealed...

...truth in the love of it, wait for fuller manifestations of the Spirit, namely, to be sealed by the holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our...purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory." This seems to bring us to the very point, where every humble worshipper would desire to fix himself...

...predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will ; that we should be to the praise of his glory, who...earnest of our inheritance, until the redemption of tho purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory." It appears that the mystery of God's will,...

...common to the Gentiles; priority of time being excepted. His words are—" In whom " ye (Gentiles) also trusted, after that ye heard the " word of truth,...Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of " our (the Jews') inheritance;" that spiritual inheritance mentioned in the preceding verses: " Wherefore...

...should the written and dispensed word of God be treated ? life : And they are they which testify of me.- In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word...ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.- As new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may glow thereby: If so...

...our inheritance, until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. 13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word...ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, PARAPHRASE. 14 believed in him, have been sealed by the Holy Ghost; Which was promised,...

...predestinated according to " the purpose of him who worketh all things after " the counsel of his own will ; [that we should be " to the praise of his glory who...after that ye " heard the word of truth, the gospel of your sal" vation : in whom also, after that ye believed, ye " were sealed with that Holy Spirit...