Ephesians 1:4-6

1599 Geneva Bible

Footnotes

1. Ephesians 1:4 He declareth the efficient cause, or by what means God the Father saveth us in his Son: Because saith he, he chose us from everlasting in his Son.
2. Ephesians 1:4 To be adopted in him.
3. Ephesians 1:4 He expoundeth the next final cause, which he maketh double, to wit, sanctification and justification, whereof he will speak hereafter. And hereby also two things are to be noted, to wit, that holiness of life cannot be separated from the grace of election: and again what pureness forever is in us, is the gift of God, who hath freely of his mercy chosen us.
4. Ephesians 1:4 Then God did not choose us, because we were, or otherwise should have been holy, but to the end we should be holy.
5. Ephesians 1:4 Being clothed with Christ’s righteousness.
6. Ephesians 1:4 Truly and sincerely.
7. Ephesians 1:5 Another plainer exposition of the efficient cause, and also of eternal election, whereby God is saith to have chosen us in Christ, to wit, because it pleased him to appoint us out when we were not yet born, whom he would make to be his children by Jesus Christ: so that there is no reason here of our election to be sought, but in the free mercy of God, neither is faith which God foresaw, the cause of predestination, but the effect.
8. Ephesians 1:5 God respecteth nothing, either that present is, or that is to come, but himself only.
9. Ephesians 1:6 The uttermost and chiefest final cause is the glory of God the Father, who saveth us freely in his Son.
10. Ephesians 1:6 That as his bountiful goodness deserveth all praise, so also it should be set forth and published.
11. Ephesians 1:6 Another final cause more near, is our justification, while that he freely accounteth us for just in his Son.