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believer fails to respond, so far, on the experimental plane, will not the
manifestation of the Divine fulness be hindered?
This matter of the fulness is so vast that no attempt will be made to deal
with it here.  Some attention has been paid to the theme in An Alphabetical
Analysis part 3, under the heading Pleroma.  There, we realize that the term
covers the purpose of the ages, and that no other company of the redeemed occupy
so exalted a position in this purpose as `the church which is His Body, the
fulness of Him that filleth all in all'.  With this third petition, the prayer
of Ephesians 3 reaches its summit, Paul like David could
say, the prayers of Paul the apostle `are ended or consummated'.  Only the
doxology remains, and in that doxology we shall find gathered expressions that
will indicate some further associations in glory of this highly favoured church.
These doxologies that appear in the epistles of Paul, were no mere ejaculations
that, while being genuine expressions of praise and worship, submit
to no analysis and need not be given too serious a consideration.  They form a
part of all Scripture and have their place just as much as any purely doctrinal,
dispensational or practical affirmation.  The order of Paul's epistles may never
be satisfactorily settled so far as the exact place of each individual epistle
is concerned, but there is practical unanimity regarding the chronological order
of those epistles which contain doxologies, and we set them out as follows:
2 Cor. 1:3,4
`Blessed be God ... Who comforteth us'.
2 Cor. 11:31
`God ... blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not'.
Rom. 1:25
`The Creator, Who is blessed for ever'.
Rom. 9:5
`Christ, Who is over all, God blessed for ever'.
Rom. 11:33-36
`For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all
things: To Whom be glory for ever.  Amen'.
Rom. 16:27
`To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever.
Amen'.
Eph. 1:3
`Blessed be God ... Who hath blessed us'.
Eph. 3:21
`Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout
all ages, world without end.  Amen'.
1 Tim. 1:17 `Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise
God, be honour and glory for ever and ever.  Amen'.
1 Tim. 6:15,16
`King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only hath
immortality ... Whom no man ... can see: to Whom be honour and power
everlasting.  Amen'.
We have not listed the occasions when the apostle breaks his narrative to
say `I thank God' or some such expression, but the following passages should be
noted (Rom. 1:8; 7:25; 1 Cor. 1:4,14; 14:18; Phil. 1:3; Col. 1:3,12; 3:17; 1
Thess. 1:2; 2:13; 2 Thess. 1:3; Phile. 4).  It will be discovered that a careful
examination of these ten doxologies gather up into themselves much of the
doctrine that precedes or follows them, and one example here must suffice.  The
central feature of 1 Timothy is the `Mystery of Godliness'.  God manifest in the
flesh ... seen of angels.  The doxologies of chapters 1 and 6 emphasize among
other things (1) God's `invisibility', (2) that what is attributed in chapter 1
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