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**Verse 1**
*The prisoner.* This Epistle is supposed to have been written when Paul was at Rome, confined with a chain. ([Acts 28:16](../../../kjv/acts/28/16),[Acts 28:30](../../../kjv/acts/28/30).)

**Verse 2**
*The dispensation of the grace of God;* the commission to make known the grace of God.--*To you-ward;* for your benefit.

**Verse 3**
*The mystery;* the hidden truth that the kingdom of the Messiah was to be extended to the Gentiles, as stated particularly in [Ephesians 3:6](../../../kjv/ephesians/3/6).--*As I wrote afore,* referring perhaps to what he had said in [Ephesians 1:3-13](../../../kjv/ephesians/1/3-13).

**Verse 7**
*Whereof I was made a minister;* that is, I was made the instrument of making known to the Gentiles these designs of God in respect to their salvation.

**Verse 9**
*The fellowship of the mystery;* the hidden counsel and design of God.

**Verse 10**
*By the church;* through the church; that is, by means of God's gracious dealings with the church.

**Verse 13**
*Ye faint not;* be not distressed and disheartened.--*For you;* for you Gentiles; not particularly for the Ephesians.--*Which is your glory,* which is for your glory; that is, his trials and sufferings were designed to be the means of promoting their eternal good.

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