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NASB | Ephesians 1:15 ¶ For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all the saints, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ephesians 1:15 ¶ For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God's people, |
Bible Question: What is the spirit of wisdom? |
Bible Answer: Hello viejodoc, Here is some insight from the Greek NT: 1. "A spirit of wisdom and revelation [pneuma sophias kai apokalupseos]. The Revised Version does not refer this use of [pneuma] to the Holy Spirit (cf. Gal. 6:1; Rom. 8:15), but it is open to question if it is possible to obtain this wisdom and revelation apart from the Holy Spirit." [A.T. Robertson, Word Pictures in the New Testament] 2. "(1:17) The expression, “the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,” refers to our Lord in His humanity as worshipping and being obedient to God the Father. “The Father of glory” is “the Father of the glory,” the definite article appearing in the Greek text. He is the Father of the glory in the sense that He is the Father to whom glory belongs. Paul prays that God might give the spirit of wisdom and revelation to the Ephesians. Are we to understand the word “spirit” which here is without the article, to refer to the human spirit or the Holy Spirit? The Ephesian saints had both. How could God give them something they already had? Vincent and Expositors say that it is the Holy Spirit to which reference is made. Alford says: “Certainly it would not be right to take "pneuma" (spirit) here as solely the Holy Spirit, nor as solely the spirit of man: rather as a complex idea, of the spirit of man indwelt by the Spirit of God that as such, it is His special gift of wisdom (not, which gives wisdom, but which possesses it as its character—to which appertains wisdom) and of revelation (i.e., that revelation which belongs to all Christians).” The word "pneuma" has among its various uses the meaning, “a disposition or influence which fills and governs the soul of anyone.” What Paul is praying for is that God might so work in the lives of the Ephesian saints that they will have the spiritual wisdom and a revelation from Him that is the result of the Holy Spirit’s work of energizing their human spirit. That spiritual disposition should characterize these saints." [Kenneth S. Wuest, Wuest's Word Studies from the Greek New Testament] 3. "The Spirit of wisdom and revelation. Spirit has not the article, but the reference is to the Holy Spirit. Compare Matt. 12:28; Luke 1:15, 35, 41; Rom. 1:4; 1 Pet. 1:2. Wisdom and revelation are special forms of the Spirit’s operation. He imparts general illumination (wisdom) and special revelations of divine mysteries. The combination of two words with an advance in thought from the general to the special is characteristic of Paul. Compare grace and apostleship, Rom. 1:5; gifts and calling, Rom. 11:29; wisdom and prudence, Eph. 1:8; wisdom and knowledge, Col. 2:3. In the knowledge of Him (en epignosei autou). The sphere in which they will receive God’s gift of wisdom and revelation. To know God is to be wise. The condition is not merely acknowledgment, but knowledge. "Epignosis" knowledge is never ascribed to God in the New Testament. Of Him refers to God." [Marvin Richardson Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament] I trust this will help, BradK |
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