Then would the verse in the Douay-Rheims Version help?
Ephesians 3:2 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)
If yet you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me towards you:
Some OTHER translations use the word: stewardship in the place of dispensation, but the word in Greek is "oikonomia", and means:
1) the management of a household or of household affairs
a) specifically, the management, oversight, administration, of other's property
b) the office of a manager or overseer, stewardship
c) administration, dispensation
The Greek word is used to mean both stewardship and dispensation and the context determines the meaning. Two examples of the word are shown in these verses, but in context, you could not interchange the words else the meaning is lost.
Luk 16:4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
Eph. 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; [even] in him:
Thank you, boatbums, for posting the Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition of Scripture Ephesians 3:2. So..it is not a question of translation. It is a question of refusing to accept the Scripture. How very typical. Don’t like what it says, refuse that it’s there..{{{sigh}}}
Not really, because the Douay-Rheims has been replaced by newer and better translations. Not because the Word of God has changed, but because the English languages evolves.
In the Catholic Church "dispensation" does not mean what you purport it to mean. In the canon law of the Catholic Church, a dispensation is the suspension by competent authority of general rules of law in particular case.