4269 - FIRST TRUSTED IN CHRIST

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 3, 1914

4269 — FIRST TRUSTED IN CHRIST

Please explain Eph. 1: 12. Who was it that first trusted in Christ? J. W. R.

In the Revised Version this text reads, "To the end that we should be unto the praise of His glory, we who had before hoped in Christ." The King James Version reads, "who first trusted in Christ." The Revised Version says, "we who had before hoped in Christ." The reference seems to be to Paul and his fellow Jewish Christians, who, before the Christ came, looked forward to His coming through the light of prophecy, "waiting for the consolation of Israel." Luke 2: 25. Acts 26: 6, 7 says, "I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come." Acts 28: 20 speaks of the "hope of Israel," that is, the Saviour Himself, for whom Paul was bound with chains.