2019-04-10 22:57:08 +00:00
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# made you able to have a share
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2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
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2019-04-10 22:57:08 +00:00
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"allowed you to share"
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2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
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2019-04-10 22:57:08 +00:00
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# made you able
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2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
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Here Paul is focusing on his readers as receivers of God's blessings. But he does not mean that he himself has no share in those blessings.
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# inheritance
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2023-08-14 15:29:29 +00:00
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Receiving what God has promised believers is spoken of as if it were inheriting property and wealth from a family member.
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2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
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# in light
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2023-08-14 15:29:29 +00:00
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This idea is opposite to the idea of the dominion of darkness in the next verse. Alternate translation: "in the glory of his presence"
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