The mystery (το μυστηριον). See on 1 Corinthians 2:7 for this interesting word from μυστης (initiate), from μυεω, to w…

Even the mystery. To make that mystery fully known. See Barnes on Ephesians 3:2 and Ephesians 3:3-9. The great doctrine, that salvation wa…

The mystery.—On the Scriptural sense of the word “mystery,” and its relation to the modern use of the word, see Note on Ephesians …

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…

The preceding verse has spoken of Paul’s message as “the word of God,” a general term that sums up the oral proclamation of the apostles. Verses 26…

Hidden mystery. Here we have a commendation of the gospel—that it is a wonderful secret of God. It is not without good reason that Paul so…

[Even] the mystery which has been hid from ages and
generations
This is said, as expl…

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…