St. Paul's
Epistle to the Ephesians

A Practical Exposition

BY THE

RIGHT REV. CHARLES GORE, M.A., D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF WORCESTER

FIFTH IMPRESSION
TWELFTH THOUSAND

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1902

A Series of Simple Expositions
of
Portions of the New Testament

BY THE

RIGHT REV. DR. GORE.

         THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.            Crown 8vo, 3/6.         THE EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS.       Crown 8vo, 3/6.         THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.          2 Vols., Crown 8vo, 3/6 each.

Oxford
HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

TO

JAMES L. HOUGHTELING

OF CHICAGO
THE FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF THE BROTHERHOOD
OF ST. ANDREW
AND TO ALL THE BROTHERHOOD
WHICH IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
HE REPRESENTS

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PREFACE

The favourable reception accorded to an exposition of the Sermon on theMount has encouraged me to attempt another practical explanation of aportion of the New Testament, in the interest of such readers as areintelligent indeed, but neither are nor hope to become criticalscholars. An immense deal has been done of late to assist NewTestament scholarship, but while the studies of the scholar makeprogress, the ordinary Christian 'reading of the Bible' is, I fear, atbest at a standstill. This little book then is intended to make one ofSt. Paul's epistles as intelligible as may be to the ordinary reader,and so to enable him to make a practical religious use of it, 'to read,mark, learn and inwardly digest' it.

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The method pursued, in the main, has been to let each section of theepistle be preceded by an analysis or paraphrase of the teaching itcontains, in which it is hoped that no element in the teaching is leftunnoticed, and followed by such further explanations of particularphrases, or practical reflections, as seem to be needed.

I have avoided as far as possible all discussion of rival views, andgiven simply what are, in my judgement, the best explanations.

I have ventured to dedicate this book to the President of theBrotherhood of St. Andrew, because (see app. note D, p. 264) thatsociety represents surely a brave attempt to realize some of the chiefpractical lessons which this epistle is intended to enforce.

CHARLES GORE.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY,
Christmas, 1897.

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