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To: vladimir998; CynicalBear; metmom

THen you’re going to have to take it up with GOd. Because His Word says: “To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places MIGHT BE KNOWN by the church the manifold wisdom of God.”

Let me know what He says..


562 posted on 09/10/2013 5:41:04 PM PDT by smvoice (The 2 greatest days of your life: the day you're born. And the day you discover why.)
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To: smvoice

Do these Protestant scholars agree with you?:

Amplified: [The purpose is] that through the church the complicated, many-sided wisdom of God in all its infinite variety and innumerable aspects might now be made known to the angelic rulers and authorities (principalities and powers) in the heavenly sphere. (Amplified Bible - Lockman)
Barclay: It was kept secret up till now in order that now the many-coloured wisdom of God should be made known through the Church to the rulers and powers in the heavenly places; (Westminster Press)
KJV: To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
NET: The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms. (NET Bible)
NLT: The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms. (NLT - Tyndale House)
Phillips: The purpose is that all the angelic powers should now see the complex wisdom of God’s plan being worked out through the Church, (Phillips: Touchstone)
Wuest: in order that there might be made known now to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places through the intermediate agency of the Church the much-variegated wisdom of God, (Eerdmans)
Young’s Literal: that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly places, through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God, http://www.preceptaustin.org/ephesians_310.htm


569 posted on 09/10/2013 6:19:36 PM PDT by vladimir998
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