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This mystery is great, but I speak in regard of Christ and of the assembly.
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The 'Great Mystery' Explained
The 'great mystery' Paul refers to is the profound, once-hidden truth about the union between Christ and the Church. Commentators explain that Paul uses the intimacy and permanence of marriage as the best human analogy to describe this divine relationship, clarifying that his ultimate subject is Christ.
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Ephesians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
This is a great mystery. The Latin Vulgate translates this as sacramentum hoc magnum est—"this is a great sacrament"—and…
This mystery is great (το μυστηριον τουτο μεγα εστιν). For the word "mystery" see 1:9. Clearly Paul means to say that the comparis…
19th Century
Anglican
This is a great mystery. Rather, This mystery is a great one. The words apply to the type, as well as to the Antitype.
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Baptist
There is the mystery, that he should leave his Father, and quit the home above, and become one flesh with his elect, going with them, and for their…
This is a mystery of far-reaching importance. But what is meant by “mystery” here? Already we have seen that for Paul in this letter “mystery” mean…
16th Century
Protestant
This is a great mystery. He concludes by expressing his astonishment at the spiritual union between Christ and the church. This is a g…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
This is a great mystery It has something mysterious in it; it is a figure and emblem of the mysterious union between Chri…
The duty of wives is submission to their husbands in the Lord, which includes honouring and obeying them, from a principle of love to them. The dut…
