According to the dispensation of God (κατα την οικονομιαν του θεου). "According to the economy of God." An old word from οικονομεω…

According to the dispensation of God. The arrangement which God has made. That is, he designed that the gospel should be preached to the G…

Of which I am made (or, became) a minister.—Above St. Paul describes himself as a “minister of the gospe…

Of which I have been made a minister, according to the stewardship of God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God; even the m…

Elsewhere Paul speaks of himself as a minister of the Gospel (v.23; Ephesians 3:7), of God (2 Corinthians 6:4), of Christ (…

Of which I am made a minister. Note under what character he suffers for the Church — as being a minister, not to give th…

Whereof I am made a minister : Not of Christ, or of the Gospel as before, though both were true; but of the churches for …

Both the sufferings of the Head and of the members are called the sufferings of Christ, and make up, as it were, one body of sufferings. But He suf…

After Paul commended Christ in relation to God, to all creation, to the entire Church, and to the Colo ians themselves, he now commends Christ in r…