Eph-80-81 - Lesson 24 - Ephesians 2: 6-8
Ephesians 3:6, tonight. The King James reads as follows, That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs , and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ by the gospel. I think one of the things that I want to explain to the Corps, which I assumed was axiomatic, but I'm getting to the place that, whenever I assume something, I might as well forget it. But, I assumed that the Corps knew that these literal translations according to usage that I do for the Corps, I have an absolute right to do. I think sometimes even better than some of the men who may be accepted as the great authorities on translations. And that ' s not because of just who I am, but because of my Research Department, and the tremendous knowledge they have of Aramaic and Greek and texts, other texts. And that they're able to help greatly; that helps me then to give you a ' literal according to usage' that is, I think sometimes, better than anything else. But, here in this verse six. You see, I have seven different translations in front of me here of each' one of these verses. And these translations that I have in front of me here, are what the world considers, or at least some of the people in the world, many of them, millions of them, consider to be the best translations of the verse. And well ... just changed my mind.. .I don' t think I'm going to read them to you now. I may read it to you after I give you my literal of verse six tonight, and my expanded one. I think the expanded verses that I'm giving to the Corps are just ' out of this world,' many of them. They' re just so far beyond what anybody has ever shared with people along the line of these verses in Ephesians, and expanded , so that you get a comprehensive knowledge of what that verse really says. And every one of those expanded ones, I' m sure my research people could, and I know I can, handle from the text to show you why I have expanded it. Why those words are used. ' Of the same body ' in this verse six. Those words ' of the sam
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Tweet Format: mp3 Publication Date: 03-18-1981 Victor Paul Wierwille (December 31, 1916 – May 20, 1985) dedicated his life to the research and teaching of the Bible. In his quest for truth he consulted and worked with some of the most outstanding individuals in Biblical studies and Christian living; including Karl Barth, Joseph Bauer, Glenn Clark, Karl J. Ernst, Joseph Friedli, Louis C. Hessert, Elmer G Homrighausen, E. Stanley Jones, George M. Lamsa, Richard and Reinhold Niebuhr, K. C. Pillai, Paul Tillich, Ernst Traeger, and many others. Dr. Wierwille received his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Theology degrees from present day Lakeland College, and conducted graduate studies at the University of Chicago and Princeton Theological Seminary. It was at Princeton that Wierwille earned the Master of Theology degree in Practical Theology. He later completed his Doctor of Theology degree at