`whatsoever doth make manifest' (Eph. 5:13).  The great mystery of godliness

employs this word `God was manifest in the flesh' (1 Tim. 3:16), as does the

`appearing' of the believer before the judgment seat of Christ (2 Cor. 5:10).

Epiphaneia, this word is used five times of the Appearing of Christ, in

the three Pastoral Epistles, 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus, and once of the

`brightness' of His Coming (2 Thess. 2:8).  Epiphaino is used four times, two

of them being found in the epistle to Titus.  Altogether there are twenty -

eight variations of this root phaino employed in the New Testament which to

pursue here would but satisfy curiosity and not be unto edification.  What

does seem to call for more detailed examination is the way in which this word

and its derivations are found in the Prison epistles of the apostle, and

instead of taking each word by itself, we will take them as they come in the

epistles as they occur in the A.V.

Ephesians.  `But all things that are reproved are made manifest (phaneroo) by

the light; for whatsoever doth make manifest (phaneroo) is light.  Wherefore

He saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall

give thee light (epiphauo)' (5:13,14).

Philippians.  `My bonds in Christ are manifest (phaneros) in all the palace';

`whether in pretence or in truth' (prophasis).  `Among whom ye shine (phaino)

as lights in the world' (1:13,18; 2:15).

Colossians.  `But now is made manifest to His saints'.  `When Christ, Who is

our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory'.  `That

I may make it manifest' (phaneroo) (1:26; 3:4; 4:4).

1 Timothy.  `God was manifest (phaneroo) in the flesh'.  `That thy profiting

may appear (phaneros) to all'.  `Until the appearing (epiphaneia) of our Lord

Jesus Christ' (3:16; 4:15; 6:14).