Check Your Panoply WHEN WE TURN to the skeleton of the Ephesian letter in our Keyword Concordance, page 341/410/367, we learn that the first half of this epistle refers to doctrine, and the second half to deportment. It is from these two angles that the subjects in the central column of the skeleton are approached.…

Check Your Panoply “Stand, then . . . with all taking up the large shield of faith, by which you will be able to extinguish all the fiery arrows of the wicked one!” (Ephesians 6:14,16) THE ONLY PROTECTION against the fiery arrows of Ephesians 6:16 is the large shield of faith. This means that we…

 Check Your Panoply THE SPIRITUAL, SUIT Of armor, as described in Ephesians 6:10-17, is ideally suited to fend off wicked spirits. This panoply of God is, indeed, so efficient that it will protect us against the highest and mightiest among the world-mights of this darkness. Hence it goes without saying that this armor will be…

Check Your Panoply “Having been rooted and grounded in love you should be strong to grasp, together with all the saints, what is its breadth and length and depth and height—to know, besides, the knowledge transcending love of Christ” (Eph.3:17-19). DIMENSIONS”—this is the keyword to the second half of the second Ephesian prayer. The dimensions…

 Check Your Panoply OVER FORTY YEARS AGO, in introducing an exposition on CELESTIAL WARFARE, this magazine published the following fundamental facts from which we now quote: “We wish to correct the impression that we teach that the sixth of Ephesians refers to doctrine rather than to deportment. It is wrong to infer from the negative,…

 Check Your Panoply The second part of our spiritual suit of armor is the cuirass of righteousness which Paul tells us to put on, in order to be invigorated in the Lord and in the might of His strength. As related to Christ—as members of His body—we have no work to do, for we are…

Check Your Panoply “. . . during every prayer and petition praying on every occasion, in spirit, being vigilant also for it . . .” PUNCTUATION MARKS as we have them in our English versions are not inspired, and so are always open to some question. In this article, we propose to repunctuate Ephesians 6:17…

Check Your Panoply THE PANOPLY OF GOD as described in Ephesians 6:10-17, consists of various parts which we have either to put on or to receive. The first part of our spiritual suit of armor is the girdle of truth, according to the apostle’s exhortation, “Stand, then, girded about your loins with truth!” This reminds…

Check Your Panoply Why is the word of God living? Why is it operative? Why is it keen above any two-edged sword? Why is it penetrating (Heb. 4:12)? The answer seems to be because it is a spiritual sword, or, as Greek idiom puts it, the sword of the spirit, which is a declaration of…

Check Your Panoply WHEN WE READ the apostle’s earliest epistle which he wrote to the saints in Thessalonica we can see his earnest desire to continue widening the range of faith of these young believers. Judging from his comment on Timothy’s report, Paul was satisfied that his toil in that city had not been for…