Philippians 4:20
Now munto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
τῷ δὲ Θεῷ καὶ πατρὶ ἡμῶν ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. ἀμήν.
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Romans 16:27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.
Ephesians 3:21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Jude 1:25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Psalms 72:18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.
Galatians 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver usfrom this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
From thanking of the Philippians, the holy man passeth to a giving of thanks unto God, the first cause, that they might not be elated. He had my God, Php 4:19; now, our Father; not only adoring him as Maker of all, but as Father of all the faithful as well as of Paul, being born of him in Christ, Joh 1:12,13, through whom he takes a fatherly care of them, Mat 6:32. Christ saith, my Father, Joh 20:17, as being his only Son by eternal generation; and he allows believers to say our Father, as being his children by adoption.
Unto whom they are obliged to ascribe praise, and always to give thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Eph 5:20. And this indeed hath been their practice, which should be ours, Rom 1:25 9:5 11:33,36 16:25,27 Eph 3:21 1Ti 1:17 1Pe 4:11 5:11 2Pe 3:18 Jud 1:25 Rev 1:6, &c. It intimates, their hearts being full with the glory of God, their pens and months were enlarged accordingly, exciting others to the like doxologies. To almost all which in the forecited places (as here)
is added, connoting absolute eternity, and joining past, present, and future ages together. This form of
affixed in the close, doth signify how his heart did give, and rejoiced to give, all blessedness to our Father in Christ, as rejoicing that he is so blessed a God.