This high glory is so exceedingly above all that the Scriptures written beforehand

either taught or foreshadowed, that the complete distinctiveness of the dispensation of the

Mystery can be hung upon this one passage, without fear of challenge or contradiction.

There is nothing in the Epistle to the Hebrews like it. The second term "in Christ Jesus"

does not belong exclusively to any one of these three verbs, but to the three together.

The title "Christ Jesus" is exclusive to the ministry of Paul, but is never used in the

Epistle to the Hebrews. A consultation of the R.V. will show this, and the reader will

find the R.V. alterations set out in Volume XXX, page 153, of the Berean Expositor.

Those who have this high privilege are spoken of as being faithful "in Christ Jesus"

Eph. 1: 1, and the seven occurrences of this phrase should be pondered by every reader.

We give the references only (Eph. 1: 1; 2: 6, 7, 10, 13; 3: 11 and 21). The two other

occurrences where the title "Christ Jesus" appears are Eph. 1: 1 and 3: 1 where Paul,

either as the Apostle or the Prisoner "of Christ Jesus", rounds off the number of

occurrences. It will be seen that every passage in Ephesians that uses this exclusive title

of the Lord refers to something distinctive of the dispensation of the Mystery.

There is a title of the church that prepares the mind for the stupendous revelation of

Eph. 2: 6, if only we ponder its wording and intention. The Church of the Mystery has

more than one title.

It is "the Church which is His Body" (Eph. 1: 22, 23); but it is also "the fullness of

Him that filleth all in all" (Eph. 1: 23). If we will but observe the way in which this word

"fullness" associates the Saviour with the Invisible God (Col. 1: and 2:; John 1:), we

may be the better prepared for the revelation that such a title brings of the high glory of

the church which is His Body.