“Why is this word, ‘in Christ Jesus,’ added, which Paul had used so often before, again and again?
Not only because he would have us never to leave Jesus Christ out.
I do not know who can set up without Christ, or continue without Christ, for I am sure the Apostle never leaves him out; no, not in election and adoption, nor in anything, so not now, when he comes to heaven.
But still whatsoever he speaks of, Christ cometh in.
I say his meaning is this: all the glory that the saints shall have from the exceeding riches of His grace in heaven shall all be in Christ.”
–Thomas Goodwin, The Works of Thomas Goodwin, Volume 2 (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage, 1861/2006), 2: 278. Goodwin is commenting on Ephesians 2:7.
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