For it is God which worketh in you. "Prmsens vobis," says Bengel, "etiam absente me." Worketh ( ἐνεργῶν); not the same word as "work out" ( κατεργάζεσθε) in Philippians 2:12; acts powerfully, with energy.
In you; not lnerely among you, but in the heart of each individual believer. Both to will and to do; translate, with R.V., to work; the same word as before, ἐνεργεῖν. "Nos ergo volumus, sed Deus in nobis operatur et velle: nos ergo operamur, sed Deus in nobis operatur ct operari".
The grace of God is alleged as a motive for earnest Christian work. The doctrines of grace and free-will are not contradictory: they may seem so to our limited understanding; but in truth they complete and snpplement one another.
St. Paul does not attempt to solve the problem in theory; he bids us solve it in the life of faith. Of his good pleasure ( εὐδοκίας). As the glory of God is the ultimate end (Philippians 2:11), so the good will of God is the first cause of our salwttiou: "God will have all men to be saved" (1 Timothy 2:4.
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