04.00. Pauls's Epistle to the Ephesians

Pauls’s Epistle to the Ephesians

PREFACE.

DURING his ministry Dr. Candlish delivered courses of Expository Lectures on various portions of Scripture; being in the habit of lecturing at the forenoon service on Sabbath. Those on Genesis, First John, Romans 12, and First Corinthians 15, were published by himself. None of the other courses, however, was left in a state such as to warrant publication, except the lectures on the latter part of Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, which were written and delivered at intervals during the years 1863-9. Part of this series was published in 1871, in a little volume entitled "The Relative Duties of Home Life." It has been thought proper now to publish the whole series, along with a few sermons on texts in the earlier or doctrinal part of the Epistle, which seemed to form a fitting introduction to the practical subjects mainly treated. The discourses are printed almost exactly as written; and a wish to alter them as little as possible, has led to the retention of some repetitions, which the author would doubtless have removed had he prepared the volume for publication himself. In two of the discourses (V. and VII.) there are allusions to circumstances more peculiarly affecting the Church and Congregation with which he was connected, which have also been retained, as furnishing examples of Dr. Candlish’s manner of practically adapting his interpretations of Scripture to the wants and duties of the time.