5, 6.

| A | Predestinated to adoption.

B | According to the good pleasure of His will.

C | To praise of the glory of His grace.

D | Highly favoured in the Beloved.

11, 12. | A | Predestinated to inheritance.

B | According to purpose . . . will.

C | To the praise of His glory.

D | Who fore-hoped in Christ.

We believe that the Apostle uses this word proelipzo to speak of the exceeding high

calling of this church of the mystery. The word "also", too, needs care in interpretation.

Some read Eph. 1: 13 as though it means "We (i.e. the Jews) first trusted, and now ye

(i.e. the Gentiles) also". We believe that the word "also" belongs to the fact of "sealing"

and that there is a parenthesis in the middle of verse thirteen. "In Whom also you (. . . . .)

were sealed." The Apostle often slips an explanatory clause into an argument as though

he would say "I take it for granted that . . . . ."  An illustration that lies to hand is in

verse eighteen. He was not praying that the eyes of their understanding MAY BE

enlightened, he says in effect, "taking it for granted that the eyes of your understanding

have been enlightened".

These highly favoured believers were "also sealed". We must therefore devote the

next article to the meaning of the "seal" and the related terms "earnest" and "Holy Spirit

of promise".

The Ephesian believers were "sealed". What does this mean? The Word translated

"to be sealed" or "to set a seal" is the Greek word sphragizo, and a seal is sphragis,

which words represent the Hebrew chotham. Seals were employed to safeguard letters or

treasures, to guarantee legal evidences, deeds, &100:, to give authority to shut and seal the

doors of a prison.