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# made you able to have a share
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"allowed you to share"
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# made you able
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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.
# inheritance
Receiving what God has promised believers is spoken of as if it were inheriting property and wealth from a family member. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# in light
This idea is opposite to the idea of the dominion of darkness in the next verse. Alternate translation: "in the glory of his presence" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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