This mystery (το μυστηριον τουτο). Not in the pagan sense of an esoteric doctrine for the initiated (from μυεω, to blink, to wink)…

Ignorant of this mystery. The word mystery means, properly, that which is concealed, hidden, or unknown. And it especially refers…

Mystery.—Throughout St. Paul’s writings, the word always means something that, though not knowable or fully comprehensible by unas…

Now Paul speaks of a “mystery” (GK 3696), lest his readers imagine that either he or they are capable of understanding the course of Israel’s histo…

I would not, etc. Here he rouses his audience to greater attention, as he declares that he is going to reveal something secret. Nor did he…

For I would not, brethren The apostle in order to raise the attention of the Gentiles to what he was about to deliver to …

Of all judgments, spiritual judgments are the most severe; of these the apostle is here speaking. The restoration of the Jews is, in the natural or…

1. After leading the Gentiles to a knowledge of the divine judgments, in which God’s goodne and severity were manifested, the Apostle, actin…