Reference: Pleroma
Hastings
The transliteration of a Gr. word which is generally rendered 'fulness' in the NT. pl
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While He was thus speaking, a Ruler came up and profoundly bowing said, "My daughter is just dead; but come and put your hand upon her and she will return to life."
No one mends an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. Otherwise, the patch put on would tear away from it--the new from the old--and a worse hole would be made.
But when He saw them distressed with rowing (for the wind was against them)
"And when the seven for the 4,000, how many hampers full of portions did you take away?" "Seven," they answered.
For He it is from whose fulness we have all received, and grace upon grace.
and if their lapse is the enriching of the world, and their overthrow the enriching of the Gentiles, will not still greater good follow their restoration?
For there is a truth, brethren, not revealed hitherto, of which I do not wish to leave you in ignorance, for fear you should attribute superior wisdom to yourselves--the truth, I mean, that partial blindness has fallen upon Israel until the great mass of the Gentiles have come in;
Love avoids doing any wrong to one's fellow man, and is therefore complete obedience to Law.
and I know that when I come to you it will be with a vast amount of blessing from Christ.
for the earth is the Lord's, and all that it contains.
But, when the time was fully come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born subject to Law,
for the government of the world when the times are ripe for it--the purpose which He has cherished in His own mind of restoring the whole creation to find its one Head in Christ; yes, things in Heaven and things on earth, to find their one Head in Him.
the completeness of Him who everywhere fills the universe with Himself.
to grant you--in accordance with the wealth of His glorious perfections--to be strengthened by His Spirit with power penetrating to your inmost being.
till we all of us arrive at oneness in faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, and at mature manhood and the stature of full-grown men in Christ.
For it was the Father's gracious will that the whole of the divine perfections should dwell in Him.
For it is in Christ that the fulness of God's nature dwells embodied, and in Him you are made complete,
For it is in Christ that the fulness of God's nature dwells embodied, and in Him you are made complete, and He is the Lord of all princes and rulers.