**Ephesians 3:9 Genuine or Counterfeit?** **Is "God, who created all things BY JESUS CHRIST"** **MISSING From Your Bible?** **Does "BY JESUS CHRIST" Belong In Your Bible?** **Did Jesus Christ...
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Internal Evidentiary Support for the Genuineness of the above Passage
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Patristic Evidentiary Support for the Genuineness of the above Passage
THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS 38 Vol. Set WordSearch Add-On
"BY JESUS CHRIST" ( 78 ) Occurrences in ( 74 ) Sections ECF
"CREATED" ( 4323 ) Occurrences in ( 2680 ) Sections ECF
354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 1 - St. Augustin: Prolegomena, Confessions, Letters - The Confessions - Book 11. - Chapter 2
I beseech,
BY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, Thy Son, “the Man of Thy right hand, the Son of man, whom Thou madest strong for Thyself,” as Thy Mediator and ours, through whom Thou hast sought us, although not seeking Thee, but didst seek us that we might seek Thee, —
THY WORD THROUGH WHOM THOU HAST MADE ALL THINGS,
35-107 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Ante-Nicene Fathers - Volume 1 - Apostolic Fathers, Ignatius - Epistle to the Philadelphians: Shorter and Longer Versions - Chapter 9. The Old Testament is good: the New Testament is better.
The Comforter is holy, and the Word is holy,
THE SON OF THE FATHER, BY WHOM HE MADE ALL THINGS,
35-107 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Ante-Nicene Fathers - Volume 1 - Apostolic Fathers - Ignatius - Epistle to the Tarsians - Chapter 4. Continuation.
And [know ye, moreover], that He who was born of a woman was the Son of God, and He that was crucified was “the first-born of every creature,” and God
THE WORD, WHO ALSO CREATED ALL THINGS. For says the apostle, “There is one God, the Father, of whom are all things; and
ONE LORD JESUS CHRIST, BY WHOM ARE ALL THINGS.” And again, “For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus;” and,
“BY HIM WERE ALL THINGS CREATED THAT ARE IN HEAVEN, AND ON EARTH, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE; AND HE IS BEFORE ALL THINGS, AND BY HIM ALL THINGS CONSIST.”
130-202 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Ante-Nicene Fathers - Volume 1 - Apostolic Fathers, - Ireneaus - Against Heresies: Book 1 - Chapter 22. Deviations of heretics from the truth.
1. The rule of truth which we hold, is, that there is one God Almighty,
WHO MADE ALL THINGS BY HIS WORD, and fashioned and formed, out of that which had no existence,
ALL THINGS WHICH EXIST.
THUS SAITH THE SCRIPTURE, TO THAT EFFECT “BY THE WORD OF THE LORD WERE THE HEAVENS ESTABLISHED, AND ALL THE MIGHT OF THEM, BY THE SPIRIT OF HIS MOUTH.” And again,
“ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM, AND WITHOUT HIM WAS NOTHING MADE.” ...
BY HIS WORD AND SPIRIT, MAKES, AND DISPOSES, AND GOVERNS ALL THINGS, AND COMMANDS ALL THINGS INTO EXISTENCE, — He who formed the world (for the world is of all), — He who fashioned man, — He [who] is the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, above whom there is no other God, nor initial principle, nor power, nor pleroma, — He is the Father of
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, as we shall prove.
130-202 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Ante-Nicene Fathers - Volume 1 - Apostolic Fathers, Irenaeus - Against Heresies: Book 2 - Chapter 32. Further exposure of the wicked and blasphemous doctrines of the heretics.
directing her prayers to
THE LORD, WHO MADE ALL THINGS, in a pure, sincere, and straightforward spirit, and calling upon the name of
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST,
130-202 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Ante-Nicene Fathers - Volume 1 - Apostolic Fathers, Irenaeus - Against Heresies: Book 3 - Chapter 11 Proofs in continuation, extracted from St. John's Gospel. The Gospels are four in number, neither more nor less. Mystic reasons for this.
...and persuade them that there is but one God,
WHO MADE ALL THINGS BY HIS WORD
The disciple of the Lord therefore desiring to put an end to all such doctrines, and to establish the rule of truth in the Church, that there is
ONE ALMIGHTY GOD, WHO MADE ALL THINGS BY HIS WORD, both visible and invisible; showing at the same time, that
BY THE WORD, THROUGH WHOM GOD MADE THE CREATION,
354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 3 - St. Augustin: On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises - Doctrinal Treatises of St. Augustin - On the Catechising of the Uninstructed. - Chapter 22 - Of the Six Ages of the World.
deeply as to have sent in their behalf
HIS ONLY SON, BY WHOM HE MADE ALL THINGS,
35-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 3 - St. Augustin: On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises - Doctrinal Treatises of St. Augustin - On the Catechising of the Uninstructed. - Chapter 26 - Of the Formal Admission of the Catechumen, and of the Signs Therein Made Use of.
the mercy of their Creator, sent His only-begotten Son, that is to say, His Word, equal with Himself,
BY WHOM HE MADE ALL THINGS. ...
JESUS CHRIST
296-373 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - Second Series - Volume 4 - Athanasius: Select Works and Letters - Statement of Faith. (Expositio Fideiis written with
REFERENCE TO JESUS in a bodily sense. For the Lord’s Humanity was created as ‘a beginning of ways,’ and He manifested it to us for our salvation. For by it we have our access to the Father. For He is the way (Joh 14:6) which leads us back to the Father. And a way is a corporeal visible thing, such as is the Lord’s humanity.
WELL, THEN, THE WORD OF GOD CREATED ALL THINGS,
296-373 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - Second Series - Volume 4 - Athanasius: Select Works and Letters - Arian History. (Historia Arianorum ad Monachos.) - Persecution in Egypt.
neither have we worshipped the works of our own hands, nor served the creature more than Thee, the
GOD THAT HAST CREATED ALL THINGS THROUGH THY WORD, THE ONLY-BEGOTTEN SON OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, through whom to Thee the Father together with the same Word in the Holy Spirit be glory and power for ever and ever. Amen.’
354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 3 - St. Augustin: On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises - Doctrinal Treatises of St. Augustin - A Treatise on Faith and the Creed. - Chapter 2 - Of God and His Exclusive Eternity.
And since He
CREATED ALL THINGS BY THE WORD, which Word is also designated the Truth, and the Power, and the Wisdom of God, —as also under many other appellations
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST,
200-258 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Ante-Nicene Fathers - Volume 5 - Novatian, Appendix - Novatian - A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity. - Chapter 11. And Indeed that Christ Was Not Only Man, But God Also; That Even as He Was the Son of Man, So Also He Was the Son of God.
But lest, from
THE FACT of asserting that
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, the Son of God,
THE CREATOR,
354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 5 - St. Augustin: Anti-Pelagian Writings - Introductory Essay on Augustin and the Pelagian Controversy. - Section III - Augustin's Part in the Controversy.
But we show to you a greater grace than this, by which we are Christians.…This is the grace
BY JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD: IT WAS HE THAT MADE US,—BOTH BEFORE WE WERE AT ALL, IT WAS HE THAT MADE US, AND NOW, AFTER WE ARE MADE, it is He that has made us all righteous,—and not we ourselves.”
354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 5 - St. Augustin: Anti-Pelagian Writings - On Marriage and Concupiscence. - Book II - Chapter 57 - The Great Sin of the First Man.
THIS VIEW FROM THE MIDST OF THE CHURCHES, AND REALLY BELIEVE THAT ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY JESUS CHRIST, AND THAT WITHOUT HIM NOTHING WAS MADE.”[1] JOHN 1:3.
354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 5 - St. Augustin: Anti-Pelagian Writings - On Marriage and Concupiscence. - Book II - Chapter 60 -
which was written on the short paper you sent me, I will close with his last words:
“REALLY BELIEVE THAT ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY JESUS CHRIST, AND THAT WITHOUT HIM NOTHING WAS MADE.”[1] JOHN 1:3.
4th Century: Early Church Fathers - Ante-Nicene Fathers - Volume 7 - Early Liturgies - Early Liturgies - The Divine Liturgy of James the Holy Apostle and Brother of the Lord
XXIX. Holy art Thou, King of eternity, and Lord and giver of all holiness; holy also
THY ONLY-BEGOTTEN SON, OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, BY WHOM THOU HAST MADE ALL THINGS;
354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 7 - St. Augustin: Gospel of John, First Epistle of John, Soliloquies - Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John. - Tractate I - Chapter I. 1-5.
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST .. By that Word angels also were made; by that Word archangels were made, powers, thrones, dominions, principalities;
BY THAT WORD WERE MADE ALL THINGS. Hence, judge what a Word this is.
354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 7 - St. Augustin: Gospel of John, First Epistle of John, Soliloquies - Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John. - Tractate XIV - Chapter III. 29-36.
7. “He that cometh from heaven is above all; and what He hath seen and heard, that He testifieth: and no man receiveth His testimony.” Cometh from heaven, is above all,
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST; of whom it was said above, ... so God gave out His Word, that is, begat the Son. And thou, indeed, begettest the word even in thy heart according to time; God without time begat
THE SON BY WHOM HE CREATED ALL TIMES.
354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 7 - St. Augustin: Gospel of John, First Epistle of John, Soliloquies - Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John. - Tractate CXXIV - Chapter XXI. 19-25.
He sent
HIS ONLY-BEGOTTEN SON, BY WHOM HE CREATED ALL THINGS, that He might become man while remaining God, and so be the Mediator between God and men,
THE MAN CHRIST JESUS:
354-430 A.D Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 8 - St. Augustin: Exposition on the Psalms - Expositions on the Book of Psalms. - Psalm LV
"THE LORD JESUS CHRIST .. FOR IF BY HIM HAVE BEEN MADE ALL THINGS,"
354-430 A.D. .Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 8 - St. Augustin: Exposition on the Psalms - Expositions on the Book of Psalms. - Psalm LXXVI
was
CHRIST THE LORD, the Saviour; but our God, who is before Judah, and before Heaven and earth,
BY WHOM WERE MADE ALL THINGS,
354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 8 - St. Augustin: Exposition on the Psalms - Expositions on the Book of Psalms. - Psalm LXXVI
1. No greater gift could God have given to men than in making
HIS WORD, BY WHICH HE CREATED ALL THINGS, ...
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD,
354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 8 - St. Augustin: Exposition on the Psalms - Expositions on the Book of Psalms. - Psalm XCVII
He is therefore the Lord of the whole earth,
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST born in Judæa, but not born for Judæa alone, because before He was
BORN HE CREATED ALL MEN; AND HE WHO CREATED, ALSO NEW CREATED, ALL MEN.
354-430 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 8 - St. Augustin: Exposition on the Psalms - Expositions on the Book of Psalms. - Psalm CXLVI
"To us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and
ONE LORD JESUS CHRIST, THROUGH WHOM ARE ALL THINGS.” ... as regards His providential care of the universe,
WHEREBY HE CREATED ALL THINGS,
360-435 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - Second Series - Volume 11 - John Cassian - The Works of John Cassian. - The Seven Books of John Cassian on the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius. - Book VI. - Chapter XXI. The authority of Holy Scripture teaches that Christ existed from all eternity.
And yet to return to what we said before, though all these things are so, as we have stated: how do we read
THAT JESUS CHRIST (whom you assert to be a mere man) was ever existing even before His birth of a Virgin, and how is He proclaimed by prophets and apostles as God even before the worlds? As
PAUL SAYS: “ONE LORD JESUS, THROUGH WHOM ARE ALL THINGS.”[1] And elsewhere he says:
“FOR IN CHRIST WERE CREATED ALL THINGS IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH, BOTH VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE.”[2] The Creed too, which is framed both by human and Divine authority, says: “I believe in God the Father, and in the Lord Jesus Christ, His Son.” And after other clauses: “Very God of Very God;
BY WHOM BOTH THE WORLDS WERE FRAMED AND ALL THINGS WERE MADE.” And further: “Who for us came and was born of the Virgin Mary, and was crucified, and was buried.”
347-407 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 13 - The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians. - Homilies on Ephesians. - Ephesians 3:8-11
This “dispensation,” however, he more clearly unfolds in the Epistle to the Romans.
“IN GOD,” HE CONTINUES, “WHO CREATED ALL THINGS BY JESUS CHRIST.”[4] [See note on these words above.—G.A.]
AND HE DOES WELL TO SAY “BY JESUS CHRIST;” forasmuch as He who created all things by Him, revealeth also this by Him; for He hath made nothing without Him; for “without Him,” it is said, “was not any thing made.” (John 1:3.)
347-407 A.D. Early Church Fathers - Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers - First Series - Volume 14 - Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Gospel of St. John, Hebrews - The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John. - Homily 4 - John 1:1
What then, when the Apostle says,
“THE GREAT GOD, AND OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST” ( TIT 2:13 ); ... (for “He was,” says he,
“IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD,”) AND ATTRIBUTING TO HIM THE OFFICE OF CREATOR. For
“BY HIM WERE ALL THINGS MADE, AND WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANYTHING MADE THAT WAS MADE”; ... If now He was ever with the Father, if
HE HIMSELF CREATED ALL THINGS, if He brought all things into existence, and keeps together all things,
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Greek Texts Evidentiary Support for the Genuineness of the above Passage
RP Byzantine Majority Text 2005
καὶ φωτίσαι πάντας τίς ἡ οἰκονομία τοῦ μυστηρίου τοῦ ἀποκεκρυμμένου ἀπὸ τῶν αἰώνων ἐν τῷ θεῷ τῷ τὰ πάντα κτίσαντι
διὰ Ἰησοῦ χριστοῦ,
Greek Orthodox Church 1904
καὶ φωτίσαι πάντας τίς ἡ οἰκονομία τοῦ μυστηρίου τοῦ ἀποκεκρυμμένου ἀπὸ τῶν αἰώνων ἐν τῷ Θεῷ, τῷ τὰ πάντα κτίσαντι
διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ,
Scrivener's Textus Receptus 1894
καὶ φωτίσαι πάντας τίς ἡ κοινωνία τοῦ μυστηρίου τοῦ ἀποκεκρυμμένου ἀπὸ τῶν αἰώνων ἐν τῷ Θεῷ τῷ τὰ πάντα κτίσαντι
διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ,
Stephanus Textus Receptus 1550
καὶ φωτίσαι πάντας τίς ἡ κοινωνία τοῦ μυστηρίου τοῦ ἀποκεκρυμμένου ἀπὸ τῶν αἰώνων ἐν τῷ θεῷ τῷ τὰ πάντα κτίσαντι
διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ,
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Manuscript Evidentiary Support for the Genuineness of the above Passage
Uncial = Majuscule = Written in All Capitol Letters.
D-1; Dabs; K; L;
Cursives: THE MAJORITY TEXT;
Syriac: Harclean**;
Also Extant in 049; 056; 078; 0142; 0150; 0151;
"Another wicked attempt to remove the Deity of Christ from the scriptures."
Source; A Closer Look; Early Manuscripts & The A.V. by Jack Moorman
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Manuscript Evidentiary Support for the Genuineness of the above Passage
RP Byzantine Majority Text 2005
καὶ φωτίσαι πάντας τίς ἡ οἰκονομία τοῦ μυστηρίου τοῦ ἀποκεκρυμμένου ἀπὸ τῶν αἰώνων ἐν τῷ θεῷ τῷ τὰ πάντα κτίσαντι
διὰ Ἰησοῦ χριστοῦ,
Ephesians 3:9 (Münster) Variant readings
κτίσαντι διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ
Dc {Date=VI; Text type=W}
syrh* {Date=616; Text type=B in the Gospels; mg is C in the Gospels and W in Acts,James-Rev}
K {Date=IX; Text type=B}
L {Date=IX; Text type=B}
0278 {Date=IX; Text type=late A, a bit B}
1881 {Date=XIV; Text type=f1739}
ς {Date=1550; Text type=B}
Dio {Date=1641; Text type=B}
ND {Date=1991; Text type=B}
Byz {Text type=B}
See A Student's Guide to New Testament Textual Variants
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The King James Bible and many other versions throughout history have it right.
With such overwhelming evidence in support of the genuineness of the passage above, why would anyone want to alter it? What was and is the motivation behind these changes in the modern versions?
How Many Changes, Missing Words, Deleted Verses and Omitted Phrases Will You Tolerate?
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Your Brother in Christ
Mark Lamb 
