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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ephesians 4:9

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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4:9-10 to our lowly world (or to the lowest parts of the earth): Some understand this phrase as referring to the tomb, to the world of the dead (cp. Matt 12:40; 1 Pet 3:18-20), or to the coming of the Spirit at Pentecost. Instead, it probably refers to the incarnation, when Christ . . . descended from heaven and became a man (see John 1:14; 3:13; Phil 2:7-8).
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